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New Atdec Gear Adapts To Any Environment

Staff Writers January 17, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Atdec’s Levitate uses intelligent design to cleverly hide untidy computer wiring in a way that doesn’t make it difficult to adjust monitors and TV screens, irrespective of…

IBM Squeezes Data Storage Into 12 Atoms

Staff Writers January 16, 2012 No Comments

IBM’s R&D labs have shown the potential to use atomic-scale magnetic memory to make dense storage components for the future’s computers. While the current hard drives featured in PCs today…

Dell Reloaded: 13″ Size Zero i5 Ultrabook Hits CES

Staff Writers January 13, 2012 No Comments

Dell’s first ever ultrabook, the new size zero ultra, ultra model, the XPS 13, weighing just under 3lbs, has just been announced at CES. Dell says is the most compact…

Apple Buys Israeli Memory

Staff Writers January 12, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Israeli based Anobit Technologies, which already makes drives for both iPad and iPhone is now Apple owned, a spokesperson has confirmed to Bloomberg. Apple also refused to…

LG Shows Up Samsung With 14-inch ‘Super’ Ultrabook Rival At CES

Staff Writers January 10, 2012 No Comments

The two new Ultrabooks, the Z330 and Z430, come in 13 inch and 14 inch sizes respectively and fit the metallic mould of Intel’s Ultrabook spec. They’re thin, they’re light,…

Dick Smith ‘New’ Drive Comes With Pirated Movies & Virus’

Staff Writers December 22, 2011 No Comments

Click to enlarge After purchasing the hard drive, Mason plugged it into his computer expecting to see roughly 1.5GB of storage available. Instead, his computer showed the hard drive contained…

Intel: Hard Drive Shortage & Ultrabrooks Drive Opportunity For SSDs

Staff Writers December 20, 2011 No Comments

Intel in Europe has indicated that the hard drive shortage marks an opportunity for wider retailer adoption of SSDs, though the company also indicated that it was selling out all…

Vulnerable: Hard Disk Companies Slash Warranties

Staff Writers December 20, 2011 No Comments

According to site techspot, Seagate issued a letter to an authorised distributor informing them of the new warranty policies which will come into effect on December 31st, 2011. Techspot reports…

Wired: Vodafone Signs Up First NBN Fixed Line Customers

Staff Writers December 19, 2011 No Comments

Click to enlarge An overseas model Vodafone Femtocell Station “We are pleased to have connected our first NBN customers and delighted to be providing them with some of the innovation…

Qualcomm Spurs Cheaper, Faster Smartphone Production With New Chips

Staff Writers December 13, 2011 No Comments

The new Snapdragon chips that house 1GHz dual-core CPUs are set to be backwards compatible with the software and hardware of older Qualcomm chipsets used on high volume phones, giving…