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Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.
By Agam Shah | 24 May, 2012 19:23
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Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets US$126 million investment back
Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, part of Sony's ongoing attempts to reform its foundering TV business.
By Jay Alabaster | 24 May, 2012 10:15
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UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program
It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly financial results.
By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 20:52
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Windows 8 touchscreen devices to be priced higher: Dell
Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, according to Dell's CEO, Michael Dell.
By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 09:43
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Thunderbolt cable options open up for Apple Mac users
The number of options available for Mac users to buy Thunderbolt cables from outside Apple is growing, with companies announcing longer and competitively priced cables that will also work with upcoming Windows PCs with Thunderbolt ports.
By Agam Shah | 22 May, 2012 04:21
Tutorials about Components
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There's never been a better time to upgrade RAM
In case you haven't noticed, memory prices have dropped through the floor. As such, I've been busily upgrading every computer I can get my hands on. For example, my 2009 MacBook Pro has been maxed-out to 8GB, which involved buying two 4GB SODIMM modules. The cost? Just US$97. I dare say I could have got them even cheaper if I'd shopped around.
By Keir Thomas | 14 January, 2011 09:06
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How to get more from a quad-core PC
QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use the processor more effectively and allocate different processes to the individual cores?
By Chris Byers | 13 August, 2010 02:20
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Upgrade your motherboard the easy way
Even accomplished geeks shy away from motherboard upgrades on their main PCs. Years ago, I would often upgrade gaming and test systems in my own basement lab, but keep chugging along with a production machine using a two-year-old motherboard and CPU.
By Loyd Case | 15 July, 2010 01:10
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Part Six: Building a PC -- inserting the drives
This article is the sixth in a series of how-to stories on building a computer.
By Nick Barber | 03 July, 2010 01:55
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Part Five: Building a PC -- connecting the PSU
This article is the fifth in a series of how-to stories on building a computer.
By Nick Barber | 02 July, 2010 23:45
Features about Components
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What smartphones will be like in 2012
Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.
By Jared Newman | 12 November, 2011 01:31
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Display tech to watch this year: Haptics create a buzz
If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the trend. Haptics provide tactile feedback to your fingers as you touch a display by vibrating all or part of the display surface.
By Robert L. Mitchell | 16 March, 2011 05:33
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ARM CEO: PC market not our target
Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS would work on the ARM architecture. ARM processors go into most of the world's smartphones and tablets, and with Windows support, the company can now focus on the wider market for PCs, where it has virtually no presence. Nvidia also announced that it was building its first ARM-based chip, code-named Denver, for PCs and servers.
By Agam Shah | 12 January, 2011 05:41
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What's new in PC components
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from tiny flash drives that pack a lot of heat to the hand-held gaming console.
By James Mulroy | 11 January, 2011 02:35
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Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forward progress only by hip-deep mounds of tablet PCs. Everyone appears to be tapping, swiping, and gesturing on some kind of sleek black touch-sensitive device, when they're not squinting at blurry 3D screens waiting for their turn with the polarized glasses.
By Robert X. Cringely | 08 January, 2011 09:25
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