Apple nabs multi-touch patent
Look out, cell phone makers trying to cash in on the touch-screen craze. As AppleInsider reports, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent for multi-touch technology. The patent covers a "touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics,"...
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New MSI gaming notebook is quick, not so heavy
Speedy gaming notebooks don't all have to be large, heavy contraptions. MSI has demonstrated that with its new GT627 laptop, which weighs a fairly reasonable 5.8 lbs despite its 1680x1050 15.4" display and GeForce 9800M GS graphics processor. MSI...
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Western Digital makes 2TB Caviar Green official
Two weeks ago, word leaked that Western Digital was on the verge of releasing a new hard drive with a whopping 2TB capacity. Now it's official. WD has taken the wraps off its third-generation GreenPower drive and a new storage capacity milestone: two terabytes. This latest Caviar Green gets...
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AMD to let Geode line die without heirs
Don't expect to see future AMD Geode processors battling it out with Intel's Atom in the handheld market. PC World has heard straight from the horse's mouth that AMD has no plans for future Geode CPUs, and that it will just keep offering current models until demand dies off. AMD's...
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A look at four X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID
Intel's X25-E Extreme SSD is easily the fastest flash drive on the market. Heck, it's just about the quickest 32GB you can plug into a SATA port. Read on to see what happens when you hook four of them up to a hardware RAID controller in a striped array.
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Internet Explorer 8 RC1 arrives for XP, Vista
As expected, the first Internet Explorer 8 release candidate became available for download this afternoon. According to a post on the official IEBlog, the RC1 build improves upon last year's beta 2 release in a number of ways: Platform Complete. The technical community should expect the final IE8 release to...
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AMD adds low-power and higher-speed 45nm Opterons
Fresh from the release of its 45nm Phenom II desktop CPUs, AMD has bolstered its workstation and server lineups with seven new 45nm Opterons. This latest batch includes five Opterons with 55W ACP ratings and another two clocked at 2.8GHz—the fastest yet for quad-core AMD server chips.
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MSI WindBox nettop is thin, passively cooled
Who needs a fancy all-in-one system when you can just bolt a tiny nettop to your monitor? That might be what MSI had in mind when it designed the WindBox, a nettop with a small, flat enclosure and passive cooling. The WindBox purportedly supports VESA wall-mount interfaces, and one of...
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Trojan horse hits Macs through pirated iWork 09
As the popularity of Macs continues to grow, so does the amount of attention they attract from malware writers. Some Mac users who downloaded illicit copies of iWork 09 must have come to that realization, because as NewsFactor reports, pirated versions of the productivity suite include a Trojan horse. OSX.Trojan.iServices.A...
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3.5GHz Core 2 Duo E8700 pops up on Intel's site
The latest round of price cuts might have made Core 2 Quad processors more affordable than ever, and cheap Core i7 derivatives might be just months away, but Intel apparently hasn't forgotten about high-end Core 2 Duos. In fact, a new, faster dual-core model has quietly popped up...
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Windows 7 public beta to be up until February 10
Scratch the 2.5-million download limit and January 24 deadlineآ—members of the public still have another couple of weeks to download the Windows 7 beta. Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc has posted an update on the Windows Team Blog to say the deadline has jumped once again, this time from January 24...
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Australia Day Shortbread
Australia Day AMD helps customers counter rising data center power and cooling expenses by introducing 5 new low-power 45nm quad-core Opteron HE processors Fudzilla reports GT300 is Nvidia's DirectX 11 and Obama delivers weekly addresses in 720p HD ComputerWorld: Amazon cloud could be hijacked to harvest BitTorrent files,...
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