Micro-Star International (MSI) has outsourced the production of its own-brand 15.6-inch Sandy Bridge notebook, the CX640, to Pegatron Technology in order to shore up its profitability. MSI expects its combined shipments of notebooks and netbooks in 2011 to grow 10-15% from 2.8 million units shipped in 2010. To further lower its production costs, MSI has [...]
Folks at NoWhereElse have produced a very nice looking infographic that illustrates all the rumors and possibilities for the next-generation iPhone 5.
The HTC Flyer 7 inch tablets is expected to start shipping any day now. It features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and support for finger and pen input. The tablet also runs Google Android 2.3, since HTC hasn’t had time to develop a custom version of [...]
Toshiba’s external storage offer will soon be expanded through the release of two new STOR.E drives that feature an USB 3.0 interface, the 2.5-inch STOR.E STEEL S and 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch STOR.E ALU 2S. Seen below, the STEEL S drives have a steel casing colored in silver, black and titanium, and will be available in 500GB, [...]
A bit faster than I expected Casio has now finally debuted its first Bluetooth connected watch. The Casio G-Shock Bluetooth is designed for use with upcoming Bluetooth profile 4.0 mobile phones that are said to be coming soon (a few might already be around). As Bluetooth 4.0 is designated as a “low energy profile,” this [...]
This Friday, ASUS will launch what it is touting to be a revolutionary new ultra-portable computing device, the Eee Pad Transformer (EP101), at a high-profile launch event in Taipei. The EP101 is a slate-type 10.1-inch tablet that can attach to a bottom-half that includes a keyboard and trackpad, and transform into a netbook. Two of [...]
TYAN, an industry-leading server platform manufacturer, and a subsidiary of MiTAC International Corp., has completed validating 160GB and 640GB ioDrives from Fusion-io in two of their most powerful HPC computing platforms: the S7025, a dual Socket 1366 motherboard supporting Intel Xeon 5500/5600 series processors, and the S8232, the company’s newest dual Socket G34 board supporting [...]
EVGA is celebrating the release of what is touted to be this year’s blockbuster game title, Crysis 2. The company released the EVGA GTX 560 Ti Crysis 2 Maximum Graphics Edition bundle, which combines a GeForce GTX 560 Ti (NVIDIA reference design) graphics card with a copy of Crysis 2 (PC), and some Crysis 2 [...]
About 20 years ago, the static split-and-tilt ergonomic keyboard became the wrist-friendly standard. Today, Smartfish Technologies, a company founded by a former chiropractor, has a better approach: the Engage, a keyboard that periodically shifts its position. The goal is to constantly change your typing angle, thereby reducing the chance of repetitive-stress injuries. A motor inside [...]
IDG News Service – Oracle on Tuesday became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a similar announcement by Microsoft last year and Red Hat the year before. “After multiple conversations with Intel senior management, Oracle has decided to discontinue all software development on the Intel [...]
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