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Dell lets slip new, sexy Precision M6400, M4400 and M2400 mobile workstations
Filed under: Laptops Dell seems to at last put those eye-sore days behind it with its new round of Precision laptops, the M6400, M4400 and the M2400, featuring all-new designs and colored lids, and following up on the 17-inch M6300, 15.4-inch M4300 and the 14-inch M2400, respectively. In the M6300 17-inch flagship Dell is offering up to 16GB of RAM, 1TB RAID storage, 100% Adobe RGB color ...
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Auto-aiming USB missile launcher makes good use of your Wiimote
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It's tough for us to go six months without a newfangled approach to hacking the famed USB missile launcher , so it's with great joy that we present to you this particular one. By utilizing a spare Wiimote, a USB-enabled PC, a USB missile launcher, a few strips of duct tape and a minor amount of programming knowledge, you too can craft an auto-aiming ...
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Dell E-series netbooks to include 10-incher? Today we hope to find out.
Filed under: Laptops It's time for more Dell E-series netbook rumors, you ready? According to DigiTimes and its industry sources, Compal Electronics is slapping together both 8.9-inch and 10-inch E-series netbooks for Dell. Previously, we've only heard mention of an 8.9-inch E and 12.1-inch E Slim . The 10-inch E is scheduled for an October product launch while the 8.9-incher was ...
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Internet sting nabs man trying for teen sex
PEKIN - An East Peoria man was arrested at a Washington restaurant Sunday when he went there allegedly to have sex with a teenaged girl he'd met on the Internet.
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Lenovo intros the monstrous ThinkPad W700, and we get our hands all over it
Filed under: Laptops Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo's newest outrage -- the ThinkPad W700. Containing enough computational artillery to level a small village, this for-creatives-only behemoth is designed for sheer pixel pushing... and little else. The system packs in two features aimed at graphic ...
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Alert over air ticketing scam
Australian consumers are being warned of a ticketing scam which causes malicious software to be downloaded to their computers.
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AMD dubs HD 4870 X2 "world's fastest graphics card," benchmarks prove it
Filed under: Gaming Looks like all the Cinema 2.0 fuss that AMD has been blustering about with its new RV770 -based GPUs is fully warranted. The benchmarks are in and AMD's new $549 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 -- what AMD calls the "world's fastest graphics card" -- is an out and out screamer, besting the best cooked up over at NVIDIA thanks to that RV770 GPU pair nuzzled up next to 2GB ...
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Neb. wrestlers dismissed, accused of posing nude
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Two Nebraska wrestlers have been dismissed from the team after allegedly posing naked on an Internet pornography site. Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning said Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan are permanently off the team.
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AMD doubles up, announces ATI HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2
Filed under: Desktops , Gaming Sure, times might be tough at AMD, but that's not stopping the crew at ATI from gunning for NVIDIA's newest gear -- the company just announced the new HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. Aimed at the "super high-end" of the market, the $399 4850 X2 and $599 4870 X2 feature two GPU chips on a 625 or 750MHz bus, respectively, with up to 2GB of 900MHz GDDR5 ...
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Neb. wrestlers dismissed, accused of posing nude
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Two Nebraska wrestlers have been dismissed from the team after allegedly posing naked on an Internet pornography site. Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning said Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan are permanently off the team.
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Unboxing and hands-on with Sprint's AIRAVE signal booster
Filed under: Cellphones , Wireless Sprint's AIRAVE signal booster isn't officially on sale nationwide just yet ( August 17th , for those curious), but for those anxious to pull the trigger (or merely mulling the decision), we've got a few hands-on shots to whet your appetite. So, where are they? Why, over at Engadget Mobile , that's where! Keep an eye out for a review to pop ...
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Alienware debuts Radeon HD 4870 X2-equipped gaming rigs
Filed under: Desktops , Gaming digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Alienware_Debuts_Radeon_HD_4870_X2_Equipped_Gaming_Rigs'; Alienware has already stuffed NVIDIA's top-end GTX 280 graphics card into its Area-51 desktop , but if that's not your thing, you can rest assured that company is now offering the high-end comforts of ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2 as well. That option, ...
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Dell Chases Rough-and-Tumble Road Warriors With New Laptops
Dell announced on Tuesday seven new laptop models aimed at what it termed today's "digital nomads." The new laptops are the fourth generation of the Dell Latitude line and are designed with light weight and durability in mind. The Latitude laptops use new proprietary Dell technology that extends battery life up to 19 hours on a single charge, the company said.
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Raon Digital's netbook gets official, goes by Everun Note
Filed under: Laptops It's with an indescribable amount of stifled jubilation that we bring to you yet another netbook : Raon Digital's Everun Note. Made official today in South Korea, the previously AMD-branded rig will feature a 7-inch LCD (1,024 x 600), Windows XP Home, your choice of an 80GB hard drive or 12GB SSD, a 1.2GHz AMD Turion CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, integrated WiFi / ...
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Zivio Boom offers 10-hours of talk... before it breaks
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets , Peripherals Announced at the turn of the year, Joby's 13-gram Zivio Boom Bluetooth 2.1+EDR headset with 10-hours of talk time (300 hours standby) is now shipping. The obvious feature here is that extending boom, which grows from a base of 53.5-mm to a delicate 137-mm. That little trick puts the mic directly in front of your hot, steaming chat box which ...
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Location "Switchboard" Comes Out Of Private Beta
Earlier today I was at the Brickhouse in San Francisco as Tom Coates, head of the Fire Eagle team, announced the release of Fire Eagle , which had been in private beta. The offering is intended to be something of a clearinghouse or "switchboard" (Coates' words) to help users "manage location" across the internet and on participating mobile applications. Fire Eagle isn't a destination itself. ...
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NVIDIA releases new Quadro Plex D CUDA desktop rigs
Filed under: Desktops , Peripherals NVIDIA's really pushing the GPU-as-CPU angle at SIGGRAPH this year -- we've already seen the PhysX and CUDA-powered GeForce Power Pack for consumers, and the company is also updating the Quadro Plex series of visual co-processors for workstation customers. The new Quadro Plex 2200 D2, designed for large datasets and models, crunches data through ...
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Gigabyte's swivel screen M912V netbook gets reviewed
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs There's a whole mess of netbooks out there, but if you're scouting one with a swiveling screen, chances are the M912V is sky high on your list. For starters, this one's pretty pricey at $699, and for that much change, you'd really expect the battery life to be better than "poor," the temperature to remain a few degrees below boiling and the keyboard ...
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Japan's chip industry seeks ties with Indian designers
Trade officials from Japan's Kyushu Island, the site of 650 semiconductor-related companies, are looking for software design partners in southern India.
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Limited Edition Eee PC 901 and 1000H ready to candy-coat Korean hearts
Filed under: Laptops After suffering a presumed Jolly Rancher infestation, ASUS is prepped to loose these artificially flavored Eee PCs onto Korea. Available for pre-order now, the limited edition "pink" (hey, that's what they say) and Jell-O green Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 1000H ship on the 22nd of August for an undetermined price. Hmmm, blood-red snowflakes and glo-stick ...
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Neb. wrestlers dismissed, accused of posing nude
Associated Press - August 12, 2008 6:13 PM ET LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Two Nebraska wrestlers have been dismissed from the team after allegedly posing naked on an Internet pornography site.
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Dell adds $450 SSD option to XPS M1330 and M1530
Filed under: Laptops It's not as momentous as the new enterprise-focused Precisions and Latitudes , but Dell's got a tiny little treat for consumers today as well: an available $450 Samsung SSD for the XPS M1330 and M1530. Sure, the benefits are debatable , but c'mon -- you know you want it. [Thanks, Justin R.] Read Permalink Email this Comments
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Get into the Games ... NBC Local Media in Philadelphia Expands Its Profile with America's Video Game Expo (VGXPO)
NBC Local Media in Philadelphia -- WCAU TV/NBC 10, and Lunar Tide Communications, Inc. announced today a joint marketing, sales and content partnership that expands into one of the most rapidly growing consumer markets, video games.
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Dell Precision and Latitude E series hands-on
Filed under: Laptops Tons of pics of Dell's new Precision and Latitude E series machines? You got 'em, including shots of the crazy-small E4200 , which really takes us back to the days of the hot little Samsung-built X1. Hit the gallery below, marvel at some of the machines your IT department may be rolling out in the next 6-18 months. Gallery: Dell Precision and Latitude E ...
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Kingston kicks its SDHC game up to 32GB
Filed under: Storage It was a bit late to the party with its 16GB SDHC card , and Kingston looks to be playing catch-up again when it comes to 32GB cards, with it only now releasing its first such high capacity wonder. It's also not making any attempts to contend with the fastest cards around, as this particular one is only a Class 4 card that promises to maintain a speed of 4MB/sec, ...
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