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Both Electronista and SlashGear report that Dell “silently” launched the mid-range, Dell XPS 430 mini-tower desktop series today. It is considered a “silent” launch as the usual fanfare of press announcements and news wire stories that typically accompany new product announcements were not to be had this time around. As to why Dell [...]
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Italian scooter-maker Piaggio has unveiled a plug-in hybrid three-wheeler it says will get up to 141 mpg and could be on the road as early as next year.The gas-electric version of Piaggio’s funky but fun MP3 scooter uses a parallel hybrid system much like that in the Toyota Prius but advances the technology [...]
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.
That makes the $100 million computer, nicknamed “Jaguar” by scientists, the fastest [...]
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After the disappointing Touch Diamond, HTC has delivered a winner with the Touch Pro smartphone. At first glance the Pro looks identical to the Diamond, but it’s slightly thicker at 18mm. Under the Pro’s 2.8-inch display hides one of the best slideout qwerty keyboards we’ve seen on a smartphone. The slightly raised keys [...]
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On Tuesday, AVG released an update to its free and commercial antivirus products that falsely claimed that a file important to windows was a Trojan horse.
Anyone who deleted it would have caused their computer to endlessly reboot, or not reboot at all. The problem would only appear if the AVG user [...]
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Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It’s a bare-bones voice and video-conferencing service, but it’s simple to install and use and is a very good addition to Gmail.
It’s no Skype, though. Gmail Video and Voice, as it’s called, [...]
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Once again, the U.S. government has offered a plan to help troubled homeowners. Once again, critics say it doesn’t go far enough.The plan announced by federal officials and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sounds sweeping in its approach: Borrowers would get reduced interest rates or longer loan terms to make their [...]
