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Article | 5/11/2007 Apple perks up MacBooks with faster chip sets
Apple quietly upgraded its MacBook laptop line last week to the same "Santa Rosa" Intel chip set used in the higher-priced MacBook Pro, but it didn't ...
Article | 5/11/2007 AMD shakes up list of top 10 semiconductor makers
For the first time, Advanced Micro Devices made the top 10 list of worldwide chip suppliers because of strong semiconductor sales in the third quarter...
Article | 5/11/2007 Users at risk of data loss thanks to 'irresponsible' Apple
A U.K. data recovery organization has warned Apple Macbook users that they risk potential data loss due to a design flaw on certain hard drives.
Article | 5/11/2007 Cheap Linux PCs may pressure One Laptop Per Child
As component prices drop, the aggressive pricing of commercial Linux notebooks could hamper efforts by One Laptop Per Child to supply inexpensive lapt...
Article | 2/11/2007 Western Digital rolls out 320GB notebook hard drives
Western Digital this week announced that it has begun shipping its new WD Scorpio 2.5-in. SATA hard drive to computer manufacturers.
Article | 2/11/2007 Google mobile OS unlikely, analysts say
While it isn't yet clear what type of mobile announcement Google plans to make, it is clear what Google should do and why the company is interested in...
Article | 1/11/2007 ASUS Eee PC in Australian stores by Xmas
ASUS has announced its low cost Eee PC will be available in Australia just in time for the silly season, with a recommended retail price of $499.
Article | 31/10/2007 Asustek complains of Intel laptop processor shortage
Taiwan's Asustek Computer complained of a shortage of Intel central processing units (CPUs) for laptop PCs, but said it didn't expect the problem to a...
Article | 31/10/2007 Asustek's low-cost laptop coming to US, Europe
Asustek Computer's Linux-based Eee PC laptop will soon be on sale in North America and Europe, and the company plans to offer a version running Window...
Article | 31/10/2007 Discovery to spawn massive USB drives
The humble USB drive could soon be using a new type of memory thanks to research from the Arizona State University.
Article | 30/10/2007 OLPC developing new 'supercharger'
As One Laptop Per Child prepares to ship its highly anticipated XO laptops in two weeks, it is developing a "supercharger," a mass battery recharger t...
Article | 30/10/2007 Michael Dell hints at more, bigger acquisitions
Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted that his company could be shopping for more acquisition targets, and that they could be larger than the companies it has ...
Article | 26/10/2007 OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops ... seriously
The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows.
Article | 26/10/2007 New Intel factory to accelerate 45nm chip production
Intel this week is expected to open a new factory to accelerate the production of chips using a 45-nanometer manufacturing process, slated to be used ...
Article | 26/10/2007 CTIA - Never mind that '4G' stuff, Sprint now says
Now that WiMax has been certified as a form of 3G (third-generation) mobile data infrastructure, Sprint Nextel is changing its tune about the WiMax ne...
Article | 26/10/2007 D-Link and Beceem to push mobile WiMAX to the shelves
The WiMAX market has had another boost this week with network equipment provider D-Link announcing it will base a range of products on Beceem's mobile...
Article | 25/10/2007 Facebook co-founder urges open approach to mobile Web development
Dustin Moskovitz took center stage at the CTIA conference in San Francisco and marveled at how Facebook, which he co-founded only four years ago, has ...
Article | 25/10/2007 New Gobi chip set: A Xohm killer?
Qualcomm has quietly announced a new embedded chip set named Gobi for laptops. The goal is to provide WAN wireless data connections globally without l...
Article | 25/10/2007 CTIA - Microsoft's Ballmer makes a pitch for unifying devices
Everybody's seen That Guy on an airplane: He's got an MP3 player for music, a BlackBerry for e-mail, and a slick multimedia laptop for creating spread...
Article | 24/10/2007 Elpida, UMC team up on PRAM, DRAM
Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) maker Elpida Memory and Taiwanese contract chip maker United Microelectronics (UMC) plan to work together to develop phase...

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