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MSI Wind U270 Netbook Comes with AMD’s Brazos 2.0

MSI, the well-known mainboard manufacturer is also in the business of making mobile PCs, such as the fastest Ivy Bridge notebook called GT70, or today’s Win U270 that has just been listed on the company’s official website. The netbook is powered by AMD’s E2-1800 processor that we described in detai...

22 May 2012
11:11 GMT

Flying Wind Turbine Brings Affordable Clean Energy

Renewable energy is a noble cause, but nowadays the investment cost for such technologies is very high. Altaeros Energies, a company from Massachusetts, has created a marvelous device that will likely drive the cost of investing in wind energy, and also the price of such electricity way down. The prototype is a wind...

23 April 2012
14:11 GMT

MSI Win U180 Cedar Trail Netbook Up for Sale

Micro-Star International's collection of entry-level mobile personal computers has just grown by one, though we cannot really say there is anything particularly revolutionary to see here. The company has completed the preparations for the shipping of the MSI Wind U180 Cedar Trail netbook. There was no loud a...

7 February 2012
11:25 GMT

LG Optimus 2X Coming Soon at Fido for $425

Fido has just added the LG Optimus 2X Android-powered smarpthone on its “Coming Soon” list, but the carrier is expected to launch more devices in the next few weeks.According to an internal document leaked last week, Fido will be releasing three new smartphones in Q3, such as the LG Optimus 2X, Samsung Ga...

2 August 2011
15:31 GMT

Samsung C414 Soon to Arrive at Virgin Mobile as Samsung Swift

Although Virgin Mobile has just introduced the Samsung Galaxy S II, the carrier is continuously adding new mobile phones to its portfolio. The latest device that is expected to be launched by Virgin Mobile is known as Samsung C414, but the Canadian carrier will release it as Samsung Swift. It appears that Virgi...

21 July 2011
10:02 GMT

TELUS Intros Promotional $30 6GB Data Add-on, Limited to Quebec Customers

In direct response to Bell, TELUS has just debuted a promotional 6GB data add-on for only $30, which is exclusively available to customers in Quebec. The current promotion will run from June 29 through July 31 and will be available for all new, existing and renewing customers. Furthermore, it appears that only ...

4 July 2011
07:59 GMT

LG Optimus 2X and Huawei U6150 Now Available at WIND

As we reported earlier this week, WIND confirmed that it will release the Optimus 2X and the entry-level Huawei U6150 some time this week and listed both as “Coming Soon”.A few days have passed and both phone are now available for purchase at WIND for very different prices.While the LG Optimus 2X can be p...

24 June 2011
12:31 GMT

Huawei U6150 Coming Soon at WIND for Under $100

Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei prepares another entry-level handset for the Canadian market, the U6150.Huawei U6150 will be available via WIND, as the handset is now listed on the carrier's “Coming Soon” webpage.WIND customers will soon be able to purchase the phone for only $98 upfront and will...

22 June 2011
09:56 GMT

LG Optimus 2X Tipped for WIND, Soon to Be Announced

It appears that WIND picked the Optimus 2X as well, after Videotron launched the Android smartphone a little while back.The phone was spotted with the WIND logo by the guys over at MobileSyrup, which means that the device's launch is imminent.However, it will be interesting to see the phone's price, as Vide...

22 June 2011
04:31 GMT

Nokia C5-04 Coming Soon at Videotron

Canadian carrier Videotron is preparing to add the Nokia C5-04 smartphone to its lineup. Although the phone has been recently listed on the regional carrier's website, it seems that that device's information page was pulled out. It is unclear why Videotron decided to delay the launch of the entry-level s...

28 April 2011
10:06 GMT

32GB BlackBerry PlayBook Goes Live at WIND, Not Available for Online Purchase

Officially introduced on April 19th, RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook is now available for purchase from numerous major carriers and retailers.Several days after the tablet was introduced and WIND is adding the 32GB variant of the tablet to its portfolio. However, the carrier has yet to make an official announcement, a...

26 April 2011
04:48 GMT

MSI Wind U270 and X-Slim X370 Laptops Formally Introduced

It appears that Micro-Star International is not slacking off, having revealed that its mobile PC portfolio has just seen the addition of two new products intended for what the company calls active individuals.Many end-users have to travel from place to place on a regular basis, so it helps to have a lightweight mach...

10 February 2011
03:51 GMT

Blinged-Up MSI Wind U135DX Crystal Netbook Features Swarovski Crystals

When a manufacturer involved in a certain specific branch of the consumer electronics and computing fields sort of runs out of ideas as far as the design of its products is concerned, he turns to all sorts of “tricks” that will keep them in spotlight a second longer, one of the most common practices being...

2 November 2010
04:41 GMT

Motorola XT720 Available at WIND Priced at $430

A new mobile phone has just made an appearance on the market in Canada at the wireless carrier WIND, namely the Motorola XT720, which was made available for purchase today with a price tag of $430 attached to it. According to the wireless carrier, those enthusiasts interested in benefiting from this mobile phone...

24 September 2010
08:31 GMT

BlackBerry Curve 3G Arrives in Italy

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has announced the launch of a new smartphone on the market in Italy, the BlackBerry Curve 3G device, also known as Curve 9300. The handset is set to hit the shelves at two carrier in the country, including Vodafone Italia and Wind, the company unveiled. The new addition...

16 September 2010
05:37 GMT

Nature's Solar and Wind Power the World

The global tendency today is to get to a completely clean energy, for the industry and for people's homes and transportation, by developing wind and solar power.As research evolves, it develops even more advanced wind and solar energy production and in the near future this green energy will take over fossil fuel...

25 August 2010
03:09 GMT

AMD-Based MSI Wind12 U230 Light Ultrathin Debuts

Just a short while ago, Micro-Star International expanded its laptop line based on the Intel Calpella platform by unveiling the FX600 and FR600 15.6-inch notebooks. Now, the same PC supplier has decided to make a move on the AMD front. Thus, it went ahead and unwrapped what can be seen as the reincarnation of the Win...

21 July 2010
03:39 GMT

MSI Announces Dodgers Limited Edition AiO and Netbook

MSI decided it was time to boost the appeal of two of its more outstanding, recently launched personal computers, namely the Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one and the Wind U135DX netbook. The means by which it will do this is a collaboration with the Los Angeles Dodgers, under which said systems will become available in sp...

9 July 2010
02:41 GMT

MSI Wind U160DX Also Joins the DDR3 Netbook Party

It appears that PC suppliers have made a veritable habit of officially unveiling a device or another and remaining completely silent about when and for how much consumers will be able to get their hands on it. Granted, this does not always apply, but even the arrival of MSI's own Wind U135DX is unknown, though t...

1 July 2010
04:02 GMT

MSI Officially Intros the Wind U135DX Netbook

MSI definitely seems to have gotten a taste for slim and light laptops, not just ultrathins but also netbooks. Even though some of the last items it showed off were the Twin Frozr II GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 466, the company got a significant amount of attention even prior to that for unveiling things like the U250 ul...

29 June 2010
04:59 GMT

MSI Wind U135DX DDR3 Netbook Inbound

So many new laptops and desktop PCs have been unveiled over the past few weeks that it almost feels as though the market itself will soon burst open because it can no longer contain them all. And yet, even with the industry swarming with so many new netbooks, notebooks, ultrathins and other types of systems, some com...

23 June 2010
09:34 GMT

MSI Wind U160DX Netbook Runs for 15 Hours

With all the talk about more powerful Intel Atom CPUs and their support for faster memory, there was no way that any PC supplier would miss the opportunity of being among the first to unleash a product based on them. In fact, with Computex just around the corner, it would be surprising not to see such a product. Micr...

22 May 2010
06:21 GMT

MSI Preps Wind U250 Ultrathin Based on AMD Dual-Core

After a long time of not offering any suitable CPU for the mobile PC segment, AMD finally broke the ice yesterday when it refreshed its entire platform portfolio. The collection included chips meant to be used in netbooks and ultrathins, and PC makers, Acer especially, were quick to show off such devices. Acer was th...

13 May 2010
03:40 GMT

MSI Outs New Batch of Wind Laptops

Even though sales of netbooks aren't as high as originally anticipated, the market share of these products is still growing, which is why companies are still eagerly bringing out new models. Lenovo, for instance, has recently unveiled the upcoming IdeaPad S10-3s. Now, MSI is raising the stakes with a trio of lap...

7 April 2010
04:23 GMT

Energy Star Details MSI's Wind U250 Notebook

There have been many times when a company's upcoming product was revealed ahead of launch, either through leaks or listings, but not often is such a device shown to be made up of components that are still unreleased. Still, it seems that such an event has indeed occurred, as the specifications of an upcoming MSI...

29 March 2010
05:32 GMT

MSI's U160 Pine Trail Netbook Up for Order

After getting off to a flying start in 2009, netbook sales continue to rise even now, with the Pine Trail platform having opened up new levels of energy efficiency and battery life. One such device has been sighted or hinted at for several months, but it is only now that the elusive product finally gets listed on onl...

8 March 2010
10:54 GMT

US Wind Potential 300 Percent Higher than Estimated

A new investigation conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and the consulting firm AWS Truewind, has determined that the potential the United States have of using wind as a source of alternative energy is in fact three times higher than initial estimates predicted. Taking into account only area...

20 February 2010
05:55 GMT

MSI Starts Shipping Its Wind U135 Netbook

As the netbook market continues its rapid growth, personal computer makers are doing their best to offer systems that are as convenient, capable and affordable as possible. While Acer managed to score big on this market during 2009, it has been facing strong competition from other hardware makers, such as MSI, which ...

27 January 2010
06:11 GMT

MSI Intros Wind U160 Netbook, Launch Set for CES

It seems that another one of the netbooks that MSI was said to be working on has surfaced. After the U130 and U135 netbooks from the Wind series were officially introduced by the hardware maker, MSI is now confirming the Wind U160. Engadget fellows managed to score a few pictures of the rather glamorous laptop and ev...

22 December 2009
04:06 GMT

MSI Is Really Developing Pine Trail Netbooks

It was just a few hours ago that rumors made their way to the net regarding a certain netbook line that MSI was reportedly working on. Unlike most rumors though, which can live and, especially, thrive for weeks before they get confirmed or disproved, this one saw a very short lifespan indeed. Just a few hours after t...

21 December 2009
10:15 GMT

AMD's 'Congo' Platform Powers MSI's Wind 12 U230 Mobile PC

After its first attempt at making an impact on the ultra-thin mobile PC market ended with the Yukon platform being largely forgotten, Advanced Micro Devices has now devised the 'Congo' platform for laptops. To herald what some see as AMD's second attempt at grabbing a share of this market segment, MSI ...

27 November 2009
06:48 GMT

Athlon Neo-Powered Wind U210 Hits Stateside

As you might have noticed in the recent months, there has been an increasing interest in ultraportable computer systems, coming from a number of PC vendors, most of which have already updated their product portfolio with such products. MSI is one of these vendors, as the company has already introduced several new sys...

16 September 2009
03:45 GMT

Tornado Outbreak Coming in September

Konami is announcing that it plans to release a new game called Tornado Outbreak set to arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii on September 15. The title is focused, as the name implies, on the player controlling a tornado as it chews through the scenery of the game an...

4 August 2009
13:21 GMT

New Wind Turbine Design to Benefit the Industry

Most existing inland and offshore wind farms have accustomed us to a landscape where we see the tall and elongated, three-blade turbines spinning gently into the breeze. This design, coupled with the fact that the entire plant is built in an area prone to intense wind, ensures that the energy output is maximized. Now...

3 August 2009
02:03 GMT

MSI Defies Microsoft, Wind U115 Is Here to Stay

According to a recent report that surfaced on the Internet, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft has banned netbook vendors from developing systems with hybrid storage and Windows XP OSes. Microsoft's decision directly affects one of MSI's most successful netbook products, the Wind U115, w...

11 June 2009
10:54 GMT

MSI to Unveil HD 4350-Equipped Wind Box DE200

MSI has certainly drawn a lot of attention to itself, with the release of the CULV-based X-Slim series of laptops, but the company plans to be successful in some other market segments too. This is probably one of the reasons why it's currently toying with various available pieces of hardware to be enabled on som...

29 May 2009
07:04 GMT

MSI Set to Unveil 12-Inch Wind U200 CULV Laptop

MSI is one of the first system vendors to adopt Intel's CULV platform for ultra-thin notebooks, with the introduction of the X-Slim series of portable PCs. However, the company appears to be planning a new model, one that will be based on the CULV platform but will be part of the Wind series of notebook PCs. Acc...

13 May 2009
10:33 GMT

MSI X320, X340, U123 Official Specifications Released

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has just released the specifications of its latest ultra-portable computer systems, the Wind U123 and the two ultra-slim X-Slim PCs, the X320 and the X340. According to the company, the new Wind netbook now provides users with options for 3G/WiMAX solutions, while the X340 is among the firs...

1 April 2009
09:44 GMT

MSI Wind U123, MSI's First Atom N280 Netbook

Much like ASUS, Acer and almost every other netbook vendor on the market, MSI will reportedly launch a new Atom-based netbook early next month. According to available details, the company is planning the release of its first netbook to boast one of Intel's latest Atom processors, the N280. The MSI Wind U123 will...

27 March 2009
11:01 GMT

MSI Wind U110 ECO Has Intel Graphics, No ATI

Just recently MSI announced a new ultra-portable computer system, as part of the company's lineup of Wind-branded netbooks. Touted as the “world's power saving number one netbook,” the MSI Wind U110 ECO was said to be featuring an Intel Atom processor that had been combined with AMD's ATI R...

17 March 2009
05:18 GMT

MSI Wind U110 ECO Combines Intel Atom with ATI Graphics

MSI has just updated its lineup of small-sized, ultraportable computer systems with the introduction of the new Wind U110 ECO netbook, claimed to be the world's number one power-saving netbook. Designed on the same Intel Atom platform that has been featured on almost every other netbook on the market, the new ma...

16 March 2009
04:56 GMT

MSI Ships the Wind Nettop CS120 in the US

This has truly been a week of product releases on the part of Micro Star International, as the Taiwanese company announced a couple of new products, including the latest Wind Nettop CS120, which has just been announced in the US. The new product joins the latest releases from MSI, including the value-series VX600 and...

13 March 2009
05:48 GMT

MSI Stuffs Dual-Core Atom in New Wind NetTop D130

MSI has just updated its Wind family with the addition of a new desktop computer system that gets powered by Intel's dual-core Atom 330 processor. Dubbed Wind NetTop D130, the new system comes as the company's first dual-core-equipped mini PC, capable of offering performance for mainstream users inside a sm...

15 January 2009
08:28 GMT

Planets Too Have Dangerous Neighborhoods

It appears that dangerous neighborhoods are not only a problem down here, on Earth, but instead cosmic bodies face such difficulties as well. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, seeing in infrared, has managed to capture an interesting phenomenon going on near a group of large stars. The image depicts an apocalyptic...

18 December 2008
09:24 GMT

New Wind U110 and U115 Notebooks to Be Showcased at CES

According to recent details in the industry, Micro Star International plans to unveil the new 10.2-inch Wind U110 and U115 portable computer systems at next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Los Angeles. The Taiwanese manufacturer is expected to showcase the new systems, built on Intel's Menlow platform,...

4 December 2008
09:01 GMT

MSI Announces the Wind U110 and U115 for 2009

After the highly anticipated Wind 2, set to debut as the Wind U120, has recently held all the headlines, it seems that Micro Star International holds yet another ace up its sleeve. The Taiwanese manufacturer is now expected to introduce two more models, part of the Wind netbook family, which will provide users with a...

1 December 2008
03:12 GMT

MSI Wind U120 Unboxing Video Surfaces

Details on MSI's new Wind U120 netbook, the company's second Atom-powered, low-cost portable computer system, have surfaced the Internet quite some time ago, but it is only now that we’re getting the very first unboxing video of the netbook in question. The video has been uploaded on YouTube by ...

26 November 2008
09:00 GMT

Intel Atom Reaches 2.38GHz on Liquid Nitrogen

It appears that almost everybody is talking these days about the overclocking capabilities of Intel's newest Core i7 processors and AMD's upcoming 45nm-based Phenom II X4 CPUs. However, news about an overclocked Intel Atom processor, the CPU that currently powers most of the low-power, low-cost portable com...

25 November 2008
09:33 GMT

MSI Wind U120 Spotted in the Wild

Earlier today we reported on recent details according to which Taiwanese notebook and netbook manufacturer, MSI, has raised its laptop expectations by as much as 1 million units, which the company hopes to ship until the end of the year. The change came just after the company recently announced that its Wind netbook ...

20 November 2008
11:34 GMT


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