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Internet services have broken down across parts of the Middle East and India, due to damage of an undersea cable in the Mediterranean. Egypt’s Telecommunications Ministry claims the damage caused disruption to around 70% of the country’s internet network. The ministry says it has no knowledge of how the cable was cut, but that service […]

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Scotts Valley (CA) – While Seagate is the dominating hard drive manufacturer worldwide, the company has not really been a driving force in the capacity race on the notebook side. Today the company joined its rivals with a new mass market 250 GB drive that may soon appear as standard equipment in higher-end mainstream laptops.

The […]

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Lenovo readies an ultra-light notebook of its own
It seems quite convenient that just days after the launch of the MacBook Air that a new lightweight notebook from Lenovo finds itself leaked onto the web. We’re not ones to sweep such items under the rug, so here’s the skinny on Lenovo’s latest and greatest.
According to Gizmodo, […]

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Apple unveiled it’s next generation MacBook — the MacBook Air, at the Macworld Expo 2008. Rumours were going around that Apple will be coming out with a MacBook that will support not only WiFi but also WiMax (and probably HSDPA?) when a sign outside the Macworld Expo read “There’s something in the air.” So were the rumour mongers disappointed?
Well, probably not. Although […]

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At CES 2008, we’ve seen several devices that take interactive entertainment to the next level. Gone were the days when you need to push buttons to make things work as they are supposed to. Goodbye wires and goodbye infra-red devices.
When it comes to video games, Wii had set the standards of the future interactive video […]

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The Eee PC has been on of the best selling computer devices in 2007 since its launch. Even here in Singapore, the response to this small but useful gadget was excellent. It has topped selling lists all over the world during the Christmas shopping spree! People loved its mobility and the small size+weight of the […]

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San Jose (CA) – Samsung rolled out a new version of its Spinpoint 2.5” hard drive series. The new drive is the second drive in the market to offer a capacity of 320 GB in this form factor.
The new M6 version is looking to attract customers in the notebook PC, slim PC and blade server […]

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IBM’s new optical interconnect may shape the future of supercomputers — and all the other ones, too
A growing issue involved with the new gamut of multi-core processors, from dual-core to quad-core and beyond, is shuttling data between the cores themselves. Problems arise as the bleeding edge of electrical and thermal physics are pushed by the […]

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Nehalem will likely be the most aggressive processor architecture in Intel’s portfolio since the original Pentium. With the launch of the Core architecture, the company announced its tick-tock strategy: design new architecture, then shrink the process node.  Rinse and repeat.
Tick-tock is alive and well as Intel’s corporate roadmap reveals additional details about its desktop iteration […]

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Moscow (Russia) - It may not be the most popular thing to consider, but high-end graphics cards contain a very powerful internal computing engine, called the GPU. This massively parallel device can attack a problem in parallel, rather than serial as most CPUs are required to process data. This means it can compute […]

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