IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 27/07/2010

Dell pays SEC fine, neither confirms nor denies Intel payoffs
Looks like last month's rumors were true. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Dell was indeed able to pay a fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting guilt or ousting its CEO. Dell is now $100 million poorer, and Michael Dell himself $4 million poorer, but...
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Slim new Acer displays sport LED backlights
After having slowly taken over notebooks, LED backlights are coming for your desktops. Acer has announced a trio of displays, the S1 series, which are the latest in the growing brotherhood of LED-backlit desktop monitors. Acer offers S1 displays with 20", 21.5", and 23" panel sizes, and thanks to the...
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Report: Two low-power AMD APUs coming late next quarter
After pulling out some numbers for investors earlier this month, AMD had news to make geeks happy: Ontario will ship next quarter ahead of schedule, making it the firm's very first accelerated processing unit (or CPU-GPU hybrid). The folks at ATi-Forum.de have now posted a roadmap and some...
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One Voice Shortbread
Eight is Enough ATi-Forum's exclusive: AMD roadmap - all upcoming CPUs (in German) Fudzilla reports Ontario 5.5W single-core comes in 2011 and analysts worried about Fusion delays Engadget: Dell finally makes right, offers up-rated power adapters to close the Studio Throttlegate DigiTimes on Taiwan market: Apple suffers Mac mini...
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