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Article | 13/04/2011 HP sees GPUs taking more computing load
Graphics processors have always been popular in workstations, but are increasingly handling a larger computational load and bringing supercomputer-lik...
Article | 11/04/2011 How to choose a power supply for your PC
Ask any good computer technician what the most important component is in your PC and the likely answer will be the power supply (also known as the PSU...
Article | 8/04/2011 New GNOME cuts the clutter
Five years in the making, the newly released version 3 of the GNOME Linux desktop interface has been radically redesigned.
Article | 7/04/2011 Happy 20th birthday, Linux: The celebrations begin
The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off what will be several months of celebrations in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Linux operating syste...
Article | 7/04/2011 Dell Australia customer email addresses accessed in Epsilon breach
An email sent out to Dell Australia customers is advising them that their emails may have been accessed by a third party after a security breach at Ep...
Article | 2/04/2011 Acer's Biggest Problem: Invisibility
There's trouble brewing at Acer.
Article | 31/03/2011 Rumored Windows 8 feature: 'History Vault'
While Microsoft prepares Windows 8 for the tablet wars, it's also reportedly taking a page from Mac OS X with a feature called "History Vault."
Article | 31/03/2011 Mobile battles take PC founding father back to early wars
One of the founding fathers of the original IBM PC, Mark Dean, says competition in the smartphone and tablet markets today is as wild as the early mic...
Article | 24/03/2011 Dell reaching out to fix PCs with faulty Intel chipset
Dell on Wednesday said it will start reaching out directly to affected customers to replace motherboards in PCs with Intel's flawed Sandy Bridge chips...
Article | 17/03/2011 New Linux kernel goes faster
The newest update to the Linux operating-system kernel features a number of enhancements that should offer a performance boost, particularly for runni...
Article | 11/03/2011 PCs loaded with Windows 7 SP1 due in early April
Laptops and desktops from Lenovo with the upgraded Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become available starting in early April, with Hewlett-Packard ...
Article | 9/03/2011 Acer unveils Revo 100 media centre PC
Acer today announced that it will launch a new media centre PC in April. The Acer Revo 100 includes a combination touchpad and touch keyboard that slo...
Article | 8/03/2011 Work begins on Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot'
The final release of "Natty Narwhal," or version 11.04 of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, may still be more than a month away, but project foun...
Article | 3/03/2011 Asus motherboard box doubles as a PC case
In the quest to cut down on shipping waste Taiwan's Asus has a novel idea: What if the shipping container became the PC case?
Article | 1/03/2011 Asus' PC motion-sensing system coming in May
Hoping to do for personal computers what Microsoft has done for gaming, Asus will soon offer a motion sensing device that looks and works like the Xbo...
Article | 25/02/2011 Apple iPad, iOS influences show in Mac OS X preview
Apple's release on Thursday of a developer preview of the next Mac OS X version showcases a range of ideas and features adopted from the iOS-based iPa...
Article | 25/02/2011 Apple ships preview of Lion OS, reveals new features
Apple today released a preview of Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, to developers, who can download the new operating system from the Mac App Store.
Article | 23/02/2011 Microsoft starts pushing Windows 7 SP1 to all
As promised, Microsoft today started offering Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Windows Update.
Article | 23/02/2011 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is ready for download
Bug fixes and security patches don't make for the most exciting Windows update, but they're the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely av...
Article | 23/02/2011 HP reports mixed quarter on weak PC sales
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday reported strong profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2011 but the results were dampened by weakness in its PC and servic...

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