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Nintendo Sells 34.55 Million Wii Video Game Consoles.
Life-to-Date Sales of Nintendo Wii Reach 34.55 Million
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Lenovo to Allow Locking Down ThinkPad Notebooks by Text Message.
Lenovo ThinkPad Notebooks to Get Remote Lockdown Feature
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Shipments of Mainboards Are Dropping Dramatically – Goldman Sachs.
Motherboard Industry Faces Financial Disaster
Hardware News
Monday, December 1, 2008
- 8:45 am | Asustek Promises OLPC XO Competitor in Q1 2009. Asus Eee PC Version with $200 Price-Tag Scheduled for Q1
Sunday, November 30, 2008
- 11:14 pm | IN BRIEF: Intel Teams Up with Taiwanese Makers to Tap Digital Signage Market. Intel and Taiwanese Makers Form Digital Signage SIG Joint Venture
- 10:39 pm | Consumers Plan to Spend the Same or More This Holiday Season – Research Firm. Consumer Technology Spending Will Stay Flat or Will Grow, Claims ABI Research
- 10:21 pm | Intel Stresses Again: Netbook is Not a Notebook Replacement. Intel Admits Underestimation of Netbook Popularity on Developed Markets
- 1:55 pm | Dell Readies Notebooks with Two Central Processing Units. Dell Plans to Install Chips from ARM and Intel
Friday, November 28, 2008
- 10:58 pm | Nintendo Sells 34.55 Million Wii Video Game Consoles. Life-to-Date Sales of Nintendo Wii Reach 34.55 Million
- 12:45 pm | Elpida Acquires Rexchip Electronics from Powerchip Semiconductor. Elpida Takes Over Taiwanese Memory Maker
Thursday, November 27, 2008
- 3:33 pm | IN BRIEF: Nokia Pulls Out From Japanese Cell Phone Market. Global Financial Slump Forces Nokia to Cease Cell Phone Development for Japan
- 2:02 pm | Shipments of Set-Top Boxes to Start Declining After 2012 – Research Firm. Set-Top Box Shipments to Peak in 2012, Says ABI Research
- 1:18 pm | IN BRIEF: Economic Crisis Reportedly Forces Chip Designers to Migrate to Newer Process Technologies. Fabless Chip Designers Tend to Transit to New Fabrication Processes
- 12:27 pm | Via Technologies’ Dual-Core Microprocessors Only Due in 2010. Via’s Dual-Core Processors Delayed to 2010
- 8:14 am | FTC Asks Supreme Court to Re-Evaluate Rambus Antitrust Case. FTC Wants Supreme Court to Admit Anticompetitive Behaviour of Rambus
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Monday, December 1, 2008
- 10:40 am | WARP Runs Direct3D 10/10.1 on CPU with Windows 7. DailyTech
- 10:39 am | Michelin Reinvents the Wheel. DailyTech
- 11:16 am | Global chip revenue to go down in 2008. The Tech Report
- 10:50 am | Black Mesa: Source Official Trailer Released. techPowerUp!
- 10:28 am | Pioneer Showcases Super Multi-Layer Disc. techPowerUp!
- 8:05 am | Nikon Unveils New D3X D-SLR Camera. DailyTech
- 8:04 am | Vertical Turbine Hits Home Wind Power Market Spinning. DailyTech
- 9:24 am | Designer sets sights on visual impairment iPhone case. Reg Hardware
- 9:15 am | Thin, stylish Eee PC 1002HA launches at $499. The Tech Report
- 8:52 am | Asus' G71 gaming quad-core notebook touches down. Reg Hardware
- 8:28 am | McKinnon's fate decided on Obama day. the INQUIRER
- 8:28 am | MSI announces new netbooks. the INQUIRER
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Asus P5QL-E: a $100 Mainboard on Intel P43 Express That Looks Like a $200 One
[11/30/08 | Mainboards]
Today we are going to talk about an affordable mainboard on Intel P43 Express chipset that will challenge an expensive Intel P45 Express based solution from the upper price segment. Read more in our detailed review!
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In fact, I have to explain, NIA cannot really read your thoughts in the full meaning of this word: human brain is extremely complex and the “electrical noise” it creates cannot be completely decoded yet even with the latest and greatest technology. However, OCZ NIA - a truly one-of-a-kind device - is definitely getting close to that. Read more in our review!
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Samsung engineers have always been by far among the best when it comes to exterior monitor design. However, they have absolutely outdone themselves in the Samsung Touch of Color aka ToC series. We are going to talk about 6 monitors from this series ranging from 19" to 26".
Everyone waited for this cooler to arrive, refused to settle for less and believed that IT will be the best. Let’s find out today if these hopes came true from our review of THE new cooler from Thermaltake.
If your budget is limited and the only thing that you need is a portable mobile solution and not a desktop system, then you should definitely check out SOHO solutions. Today we are going to check out one product like that from ASUS…
This roundup includes solutions from all companies making 750GB hard disk drives these days: Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. We will discuss features and performance of 10 hard drives with 750GB storage capacity.
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