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Hitachi Introduces World's Most Energy-efficient Desktop HDDs
2007-10-23 11:34:00
Hitachi goes very green by implementing features to greatly reduce hard disk drive power consumption in the latest Deskstar line It's rare to find hard disk drive manufacturers focusing on anything other than increasing the speed and capacity of its products because those are the two features consumers look for in hard disk drive products. Hitachi has taken ...

SanDisk Introduces Sansa TakeTV Player, Fanfare Digital Media Distribution Service
2007-10-23 11:32:00
SanDisk introduces affordable, light-weight media center-like technology to the living roomMany of us jumped on the media center PC bandwagon a long time ago, either by purchasing a complete media center computer or by building our own media centers based on proprietary or open-source operating systems. Not everyone had the resources to purchase such hardware or the hardware to build such computers but lately it is becoming simpler and more affordable to put such capabilities in the living room.Today, SanDisk, manufacturer of flash storage media-based products, has introduced a USB flash drive-based set-top media player and a dynamic video distribution platform called Fanfare to compliment the device at a lower price than traditional media center hardware.The Sansa TakeTV platform utilizes a flash-based USB thumb drive to transfer videos from the PC to the TV in a few steps. A user would first copy videos they would like to view on their television to the thumb drive by connecting it t ...

Samsung Announces 40-inch full HD LCD only 11mm Thick
2007-10-23 11:29:00
Samsung to show off thinnest full HD 40-inch LCD TV around in Yokohama this weekThin is certainly in when it comes to HDTV sets and computer displays. What is typically considered thin for a LCD or plasma HDTV is somewhere in the area of 5-inches to 6-inches thick currently. Some HDTVs are even thicker than that.Samsung announced that it will have a new thin-film-transistor (TFT), LCD on display at FPD International 2007 in Yokohama, Japan this week. The new LCD panel has the thinnest profile ever for a full-size HDTV. The 40-inch diagonal Full HD LCD TV panel is a mere 10mm thick.That is about the thickness of a typical 10-inch to 20-inch computer LCD display, which is significantly thinner than normal HDTV sets. The bezel of the panel has also been reduced from 30mm to 14.6mm. The screen is backlit using LEDs and can reproduce 92% of the NTSC standard for color saturation. Power consumption is reported to be 90 watts or less.With a profile of only 10mm, Samsung can give the svelte di ...
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Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet Breaks Cover
2007-10-23 11:22:00
Nokia's N810 improves on the outgoing N800Nokia's N810 Internet tablet has finally been announced. Details on the device were first leaked by the FCC in late September, but official images and specifications for the N800 successor are finally available.The N810 now features WiFi, Bluetooth connectivity and integrated GPS functionality. The biggest addition is the new slide-out, backlit QWERTY keyboard which takes the place of the on-screen keyboard on the N800. A navigation pad resides to the left of the keyboard.The display is still measures 4.13" with an 800x480 resolution, however, the Texas Instruments OMAP processor has been bumped up to an even 400MHz.As with the N800, the N810 uses the Linux-based OS2008 operating system. A Mozilla based browser is included which supports Ajax and Adobe Flash 9."The Nokia N810 packs the power of a traditional computer into a pocket-sized format. Its open standard technology accelerates the convergence of multiple functionalities and services i ...
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Samsung SPH-P9200 UMPC Details Surface
2007-10-23 11:18:00
Samsung SPH-P9200 details surface boasting great connectivity optionsInformation on Samsung’s latest Ultra Mobile PC is surfacing today: the SPH-P9200. This device uses a folding keyboard that gives the device what appears to be a nearly full-size QWERTY keyboard.Specifications for the SPH-P9200 reported by SlashGear show that it will feature a VIA C7-M processor, 512MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. The operating system is Windows XP Home, the standard battery is a 20Whr battery good for up to 2.5 hours of runtime and the extended battery will provide up to 5 hours of work time. A 1.3-megapixel camera is built-in as well.Perhaps the best feature of the device is the multiple connectivity options that include WiFi, WiBro and HSDPA. Samsung also included a SIM card slot, a 15-pin accessory port assumed by SlashGear to be for accessories like headsets or dongles and a port replicator.The screen is a 5-inch 800x480 display that reportedly can do higher resolutions via interpolation. Sams ...
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Dell Latitude XT Tablet Specs
2007-10-23 11:14:00
LesDeLLiens.com unloads Latitude XT details In late May, Dell announced to the world that it would bring a Tablet PC device to the market this fall. Dell showed a grainy video of its new Latitude XT in action, but failed to give any concrete details on the device. Some features were simply inferred from the video like the 12.1" display, built-in fingerprint ...
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ATI Launches New USB, PCI and PCI Express TV Tuners
2007-10-23 11:10:00
ATI launches TV wonder 650 Combo USB, 600 PCI and 600 PCI Express TV tuners ATI announced three new TV tuners today that enable HDTV on the PC. The tuners are called the ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB, TV wonder 600 PCI Express and the TV Wonder 600 PCI. The TV wonder 650 Combo USB carries an MSRP of $149 and has two TV tuners inside allowing for users to watch ...
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Ridata Launches New 32GB SATA SSD
2007-10-23 11:07:00
News on the solid state disk (SSD) front has been rather quiet in the past few weeks, but Ridata is making news today with the announcement of its new 32GB 2.5" SATA SSD. The new 32GB SSD is aimed at the mobile sector -- as its 2.5" form factor suggests -- and has a MTBF of four million hours. Read speeds for the new drive are listed at 60MB/sec while the write ...

MSI Announces First AMD RD790 Board
2007-10-23 11:04:00
MSI announces its first RD790-based board MSI today announced its K9A2 Platinum Motherboard based on AMD’s RD790 chipset, officially dubbed the 790FX. The 790FX serves as AMD’s primary single and dual-processor platform and replaces AMD’s antiquated 580X chipset. The new MSI board comes with support for a host of new features, including support for AMD quad-core ...

640GB PCI Express Flash Drive
2007-10-23 11:01:00
ioDATA drive promises vastly superior enterprise level read and write performance at a hefty price Most computer users want faster hard drives to aide in faster boot times and application loading. Solid state drives (SSDs) promised to improve our load times and they did to some degree. If a measly 64GB solid state drive just doesn’t cut it for your needs, ...

Sun Microsystems Unveils Niagara 2 Servers
2007-10-23 10:51:00
Sun Microsystems announced several new server products that offer better virtualization and energy efficiency capabilities, hoping the number of servers in data centers can be reduced. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, announced today, are the first Sun products to utilize the UltraSPARC T2 processor and offer "record-breaking performance with ...

Logitech's AudioHub for Notebooks
2007-09-16 02:06:00
One of the pitfalls to using a notebook exclusively is that it tends to have speakers that are not that great for those wanting to listen to music and watch movies. One of the other problems is that notebooks tend to lack the USB ports important to users with lots of gadgets and peripherals. Logitech has a new item called the AudioHub that aims to remedy both of these common notebook ...

Logitech Announces Bluetooth Cordless MediaBoard Pro
2007-09-16 02:04:00
Logitech announced an updated version of their Cordless MediaBoard for PS3 called the Cordless MediaBoard Pro today. The original MediaBoard used a matte silver finish, which did nothing to go along with the looks of the PS3. With the updated Cordless MediaBoard Pro, Logitech uses a glossy black chassis for the keyboard that looks like it came with the PS3. The main difference between the new ...
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SuperTalent Brings "Sexy" To DDR3
2007-09-14 08:46:00
SuperTalent today announced its new Project X DDR3 memory kits, which it deems the most advanced DDR3 memory kits available. The new Project X DDR3 modules feature a large passive cooling solution that provides more surface area and aluminum mass. The Project X cooler somewhat resembles Corsair’s DOMINATOR cooler, found on DDR2 memory modules. "These kits support obscene clock speeds, ...

BiTMICRO Announces 416GB SSD
2007-09-14 08:34:00
When it comes to solid state disks (SSDs), pricing concerns have ensured that consumers only see relatively small storage capacities. While traditional mobile 2.5" HDDs can be had in capacities of up to 300GB, typical consumer SSDs are only available in sizes of 32GB or 64GB. Despite those meager capacities, pricing hovers around $450 and $1,000 respectively for both. Some manufacturers have ...

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