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Intel rounds off its developers forum with a wild new upcoming tech
Wireless is one of those hot tech catch-alls of the new millennium.  There’s wireless broadcasters and receivers, utilizing such technology as WiMax, 802.11n, and Bluetooth.  There’s wireless gaming controllers.  There’s just about wireless everything — except power transmission.
Wireless power transmission is something that inventor […]

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FRANKFURT–One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not […]

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Google is apparently interested in buying Digg for around $200 million. Rumours of Digg’s imminent acquisition are nothing new, with everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo rumoured to have been interested in the company at some point. However, in a recent interview with The Guardian, Digg founder Kevin Rose admitted that he wasn’t necessarily […]

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After one whole day of messing around with the HTC Touch Diamond, it’s probably time to give my opinion on the performance of the HTC Touch Diamond retail set. Since this is the first time I’m using a smartphone with a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, I’ll try to give an opinion to the best of […]

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I was thinking of re-contracting my plan with Starhub since it was expiring. Furthermore, Starhub gave me a voucher for any handset purchase if I sign-up with them again. I was intending to get a smartphone, for many reasons, but just couldn’t find a relatively inexpensive and a stable one. However, I had my eyes […]

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Auburn (CA) – Most small businesses and consumers do not have elaborate disaster recovery plans in place, which means that their data may be at risk, especially if backups are stored nearby. Fire and water can wipe out at least portions of the contents stored on hard drives in a matter of seconds. ioSafe announced […]

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For many months, the Eee-PC has been at the top of many wish lists (including mine) and it had claimed consecutive months of being the “best-selling product” all over the world! Can the new MSI Wind dodge the Asus Eee-PC from its top spot? Let’s see!

News of an Eee-PC killer were going around way back […]

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So we’ve heard about the Intel’s revolutionary ATOM chip which consumes less than a few watts of power. Coupled that with a mobile device, it gives you the ability to have a longer battery life without much sacrifice with regards to performance. Asus saw the opportunity and used the Atom chip on its ever-popular Eee-PC.
The […]

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The next big thing with über sleek & thin laptops with crystal clear displays will be the Samsung AM-OLED (Active Matrix OLED) 12.1 inch laptop.  Move over MacBook Air because the Samsung SDI comes with a sleek touch sensitive keyboard which allows the laptop to be extremely thin. However, the keyboard is yet to be […]

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A wide variety of boot problems have been reported with Windows XP SP3, fortunately many of them are very fixable
Windows XP remains a standard throughout much of the IT community, and remains popular among consumers as well.  Thus many consumers are pleased that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is back in action, after being pulled […]

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