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Microsoft details a few Office 12 plansOct 25, 2005 - in News
Microsoft on Monday talked up a few features of its next-generation Office release, due next year, which revolve around the concept of "business intelligence."
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External Storage With A Mac DesignOct 20, 2005 - in Reviews
It may look like an Apple Mac Mini, but Macpower's M9-DX Mini Pod is a powerful 400 GB external storage device for both Macs and PCs.
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Lenovo launches sub-$400 desktops for small businessesOct 18, 2005 - in News
Lenovo today introduced its first desktop family that targets the small business segment.
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Analysts expect new iPods, Macs at special eventOct 6, 2005 - in News
Over the last two days several Wall Street analysts have weighed in with their expectations for next week's Apple special event, predicting updates to Apple's hard disk drive (HDD) iPods and Macintosh product lines.
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Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk DrivesSep 27, 2005 - in Reviews
We put 14 SATA and 8 UltraATA models through their paces in the THG test labs. The result is a familiar look and feel for a new product category round-up: hard disks.
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Nanomaterials to benefit flat panel industrySep 23, 2005 - in News
Nanotechnology has already added and will add more value to flat panel displays (FPDs) by lowering costs and producing improvements and breakthroughs in functionality, but companies should be careful applying novel nanomaterials, Eastman Kodak director of optical display films Robert Cournoyer said at the recent Taiwan Business Alliance Forum.
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Agere unveils system-on-a-chip for portable HDD devicesSep 21, 2005 - in News
Agere Systems today announced a new highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) for miniature hard disk drives (HDDs) used in portable consumer electronics (CE) devices.
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Three Premium nForce4 Motherboards from Gigabyte, Jetway, and MSISep 21, 2005 - in Reviews
Which chipset: Intel or NVIDIA? We start our big comparison test of the best premium motherboards on the market with three nForce4-based Pentium motherboards.
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ATI strikes deal with Intel, delivers Xpress 200 IGP for Intel boardsSep 19, 2005 - in News
ATI and Nvidia remain focused on their discrete graphics card business, but apparently expand their reach into lower margin areas to increase production volume: While Nvidia is preparing the launch of its C51 integrated graphics processor (IGP), ATI convinced Intel to use its Xpress 200 chipset on entry level Intel-branded boards, sources told Tom's Hardware Guide.
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Premier, Ability Enterprise: DSCs not to be supplanted by camera phonesSep 14, 2005 - in News
Camera phones, though becoming more prevalent, will not replace digital still cameras (DSCs) in the area of photography, mainly due to their inferior resolution, according to Premier Image Technology president Cliff Liu and Ability Enterprise's Optical Business president Roger Tseng.
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Nvidia 7800 Ultra cancelled?Sep 6, 2005 - in News
The Inquirer repoirts that Nvidia apparently has decided to cancel its upcoming 7800 Ultra card.
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Elpida jumps into consumer electronics DRAM businessSep 1, 2005 - in News
Elpida announced today that it will offer a 512 Megabit DDR Digital Consumer DRAM device that specifically targets consumer electronics applications.
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Hard Disk Drive Video Players Hit The MainstreamAug 29, 2005 - in Reviews
Until now, DVD players with DivX support have been a good alternative to the noisy living room PC. Now the first multimedia boxes based on hard drives have arrived. They can store hundreds of gigabytes of video and play it directly from the hard drive, yet are hardly bigger than a paperback novel.
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Sharp to phase out mainstream LCD monitor business?Aug 26, 2005 - in News
Sharp is considering phasing out its overseas (outside of Japan) mainstream LCD monitor business and focusing on high-end monitors and LCD TVs, according to an unnamed executive at Nanjing Sharp Electronics, a joint venture between Sharp and Nanjing Panda Electronics, as reported by the China-based National Business Daily.
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ARM advances: Q&A with ARM VP John CornishAug 12, 2005 - in News
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) continues to turn the soft-IP business model into a success story.
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External Hard Drives with Trimmings AplentyAug 4, 2005 - in Reviews
External hard drive capacities continue to grow and their prices certainly don't break the bank. Now, vendors such as Fastora, Maxtor and Smartdisk are designing in value-added features that make these devices that much more exciting.
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Turning Your Printer Into A Paper Shredder (On Purpose)Aug 3, 2005 - in Reviews
Do you have a Xerox Phaser laser printer you're about to replace and don't know what do with it? Why not turn it into a high-volume paper shredder? A few spare parts and some disassembly are all that is required.
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Mobo makers facing component shortagesJul 29, 2005 - in News
Motherboard makers are facing component shortages that may threaten their business during the high season in the second half of the year, industry sources said.
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Desktop Datastore: Accusys Acuta 4SJul 25, 2005 - in Reviews
Providing a RAID array containing up to four SATA hard disks, the Acuta 4S is designed to meet the storage needs of small businesses.
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Lenovo intros 17" LCD with adjustable screenJul 22, 2005 - in News
Lenovo doesn't just continue IBM's notebook and desktop PC business, but also has begun launching new monitor products.
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BenQ looks to expand its display business in 2HJul 22, 2005 - in News
With the goal of becoming the top display vendor in the world, BenQ will aggressively expand its LCD TV business in Japan and Europe in the second half of this year, according to the company.
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Nanotech manufacturing could break semiconductor biz models - analystJul 19, 2005 - in News
With semiconductor structures getting smaller every two years, a switch to nanotechnology manufacturing is inevitable and a matter of time. Skyrocketing cost to build nano-fabs will have dramatic effects on the semiconductor industry and force chip companies to rethink their business model, suggests a new research report.
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Hitachi's 500 GB DeskStar MonsterJul 14, 2005 - in Reviews
Hitachi has become the first hard drive vendor to offer 500 GB of capacity. But while coming out on top in the size superlative, the DeskStar 7K500's heat dissipation and other performance factors might involve some compromises.
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Small or Smaller? Ultraportable Hard DisksJul 12, 2005 - in Reviews
Seagate puts its top 2.5" portable hard drive model into the running, and Transcend counters with an even smaller, ultraportable offering based on a 1.8" hard drive. Which product makes the most sense?
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Samsung reveals 8G and 9G production schedulesJul 5, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics expects to start operating an eighth-generation (8G) TFT LCD plant in the second half of 2007, with a 9G plant to start volume production in 2009 at the latest, according to Sang Wan Lee, president of Samsung's LCD Business, as quoted by the South Korea-based Chosun Ilbo.
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Hard drives go mobile: Q&A with Hitachi GSTJun 28, 2005 - in News
The success of the Apple iPod has brought home to a mass market that hard disk drives are now considered a viable form of portable mass storage.
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Taiwan memory makers look to develop flash businessJun 27, 2005 - in News
With DRAM prices falling significantly since the beginning of this year, Taiwan-based memory makers are eying the flash market, with ProMOS Technologies establishing a NAND flash memory card packaging joint venture and Winbond Electronics acquiring a NOR flash design house, according to the companies.
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FPDC to quit PDP businessJun 24, 2005 - in News
Despite Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) recently investing NT$3 billion in its subsidiary Formosa Plasma Display Corporation (FPDC), FPDC may sell its PDP production lines to China-based companies, with technologies and technicians to be transferred to China as well, according to sources at FPDC, as quoted by the Taiwan edition of the Chinese-language Apple Daily.
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A Hard Disk In A PCI Slot? The Upgradeware HD25-I/ISJun 17, 2005 - in Reviews
Upgradeware offers a curious option for accommodating a 2.5" hard disk. With the help of an adapter board, drives can now be installed directly in a PCI slot.
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Samsung sees NAND flash prices rebounding from JulyJun 7, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics has signaled that high-density NAND flash prices might rebound from as soon as July as the market enters the hot season, sources at local memory module makers stated.