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Google to make TV sets

Source: Australian News Network

GOOGLE is developing televisions that display internet content such as photos and videos together with Matsushita's Panasonic unit.

Dell Announces Stylish New LCD Monitors Ahead of CES

Source: PC World

The annual Consumer Electronics Show may not kick off until January 7, but Dell today officially announced two new (and long rumored) wide-screen computer monitors that it plans to showcase at the event.

Monitor Hardware Health, Temperatures, Voltages and Fan Speed

Source: raymond.cc

CPU-Z developer has developed a new software called "HWMonitor". HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

10 Mega-Trends for IT in 2008

Source: Datamation.com

Research firm IDC's annual predictions for the year ahead, including software, hardware, services, the Internet, possible acquisitions, and more.

Intel worths $162 billion, while AMD only $5 billion!!! Are they still competitors?

Source: nazjam.com

It's revealed recently that AMD is losing its market value very fast and now worths only $5 billion, while Intel has its fortune at $162 billion.

Google's Gdrive (and Its Ad Potential) Raise Privacy Concerns

Source: Popular Mechanics

Google's free storage service is headed for the Web next year. Still, if the so-called Gdrive becomes as rapidly popular as the company's e-mail service has in the past three years, what happens to your secrets?

Protecting Children from Furniture Tipovers, By Sheila Gallien

As parents, we put our all into making our homes safe for our children. We keep chemicals and medicines out of reach, place locks and covers on cabinets, toilet lids, and electrical outlets. We are careful about everything, and every one, that comes into our home.

Five Secrets to Faster Vista Starts

Source: ZDNet.com

The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. They're wrong.

Amazon's new Kindle dubbed the 'iPod of reading'

Source: Apple Insider

Online retailer Amazon grabbed the spotlight on Monday when it announced the Kindle, a handheld e-book reader it says should do for digital text what Apple's iPod has done for music.

The reason there's a "Cult of Mac"

Source: bc.tech.coop

I had always been a bit amused by the cult-like following that the Mac has (the first machine I ever bought was an Amiga 500 and for years I used to lament the fact that the Amiga never really caught on even though I felt it superior to the Apple Mac).

The $199 Google Computer

Source: CNET News.com

If you've been waiting for Google to launch its own computer and operating system, that day is here. Wal-Mart is selling a desktop computer for $199 running Linux GOS– a variant of the popular Ubuntu but with lots of optimization for Google products.

Samsung glass breakthrough to slash LCD TV prices?

Source: reghardware.co.uk

Samsung scientists have figured out how to make LCD panels from ordinary glass plates, the company announced yesterday. If the process is put into production, it could dramatically reduce the costs of LCD screens for laptops and TVs.

When Is It Time To Get a New PC?

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wondering whether it was time to upgrade his seven-year-old PC, even though it's working fine. That got me thinking about this post. All things considered... when should you upgrade your computer? Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind.

Hitachi Breaks Through Terabyte Barrier

Source: cio-today.com

Hitachi researchers, who say that the new CPP-GMR hard disk read heads will enable hard drive recording densities of up to one terabit per square inch, a quadrupling of today's highest areal densities in hard drives, expect to incorporate CPP-GMR technology into products in 2009  …

Amid ancient Afghan rubble strides the bionic Canuck

Source: Toronto

In another era, Judd might have had trouble coaxing Canadian Forces personnel to even meet with him.

Eleven power supplies compared

Source: tech report . com

Today's PCs are filled with mind-bendingly complex bits of engineering. Processors with multiple cores pack millions of transistors onto excruciatingly sterile shreds of silicon smaller than the average postage stamp.

Turning up the power: 11 Power Supply Units compared

Source: Ars Technica

Of all the components in a typical computer, the power supply is easily the hardest one to review properly. There are no handy synthetic tests that return distilled results, no office productivity tests, and no FPS games to provide a relevant frame rate.

High end Lenovo and Dell laptops for sale at 40% discount

Source: linuxhelp.blogspot.com

A company named ELCOT is selling high end laptops worth $1100 each (Indian Rupees 44000) loaded with Linux, at a massively subsidized discount rate of less than $800 (Indian Rupees 29000 to 32000).

Intel to build flash drives into servers

Source: zdnet.com.au

Intel will begin building flash-memory drives into servers in 2008, starting with 32GB models that the company promises will boost system performance.

The State of Gaming: NPD Retail Stats Released for August

Source: www.metue.com

Every month gaming analysts wait for retail sales statistics like others sit anxiously in wait for interest rate news from the Fed. Thursday, they got their monthly relief when NPD, north America's primary source of game-retail statistics, released its sales figures for August.

Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux

Source: Slashdot

Today I visited PC World (London, UK) because my 5-month-old laptop has developed a manufacturing fault: the hinge to the display has started to crack the plastic casing.

Jonathan Hardwick : Using your laptop as a second screen

Source: msdn.com

Advertisers, Wall Street traders, and anyone who's ever fought for a share of the Windows desktop knows that the most important real estate on the planet is ...

The Virtues of a Second Screen - New York Times

Source: The New York Times

Once I saw how using two computer monitors improved my productivity, I was an instant convert.

Setting Up for Dual Screens | Specialized Computer Systems

Source:

If you would like to add a second screen to you computer, you should consider several items around………Hardware, Graphics Card& Software

Palm kills the Foleo dead - Engadget

Source: Engadget

We are seriously not going to take credit for this, but holy crap, Palm just cancelled the Foleo, just like we asked them to! Palm CEO Ed Colligan just posted a message to the company's official blog stating that they've decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion "in its curren …

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