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Microsoft unveils redesigned Xbox 360

By doris | Published: June 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com A smaller, thinner and quieter Xbox was unveiled Monday by Microsoft. The game console has a 250-gigabyte hard drive as well as built in Wi-Fi, and will sell for the same price as the current Xbox 360 Elite model — $299. The new model should be in stores by the end [...]

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Toshiba rolls out Tecra M11 high-performance laptop series; starts at $899

By doris | Published: April 15, 2010

Full Story at blogs.ZDNet.com Toshiba has unveiled a new line of high-performance laptops geared towards more business-minded crowd of consumers. The Tecra M11 notebooks look professional on the outside and pack some serious specs on the inside. All Tecra M11 editions boast a 14-inch LED backlit, anti-glare display and gets power from an Intel Core [...]

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Seagate enters solid-state drive market

By doris | Published: December 8, 2009

Full Story at NEWS.CNET.COM Solid-state drives are generally faster than hard-disk drives, particularly at retrieving data, and have won limited acceptance in the laptop market. Seagate, however, is targeting the more lucrative and potentially larger server market and will compete with likes of Intel, Micron Technology, Samsung, and STEC. Seagate’s first salvo in the market [...]

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December 6, 2009 7:15 PM PST Apple confirms acquisition of music site Lala

By doris | Published: December 7, 2009

Full Story atNews.cnet.com Apple has acquired struggling streaming music service Lala, an Apple spokesman told CNET News on Sunday. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the acquisition but did not disclose the terms of the deal or what the company intends to do with the 4-year-old Lala. The company scans users’ hard drives and creates a [...]

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Buffalo ships first USB 3.0 hard drive

By doris | Published: November 26, 2009

Full Story at news.CNET.COM The company announced Tuesday that it is shipping its new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external DriveStation HD-HXU3. Tapping into the speed of the new USB 3.0 spec, the drive can push data at least three times faster than a USB 2.0 drive. Available in 1-terabyte, 1.5TB, and 2TB capacities, the drive is [...]

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Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

By doris | Published: November 21, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com – Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers. “We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … [...]

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