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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut on the professional music scene in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5. He then began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group and was referred to as the “King of Pop” in subsequent years. Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller remains the world’s best-selling album of all time, and four of his other solo studio albums are …
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Sony today came out with a new VAIO, which comes with a reasonable price-tag. The Sony Vaio NW is the latest 15incher Vaio from Sony. The VAIO NW is designed for people who always loved Vaios but never bought one because of Vaios high prices.
With inviting textures and calming colors, the NW truly appeals to the senses. Its fabric-like exterior beckons your touch while the interior’s natural wave design is easy on the eyes. And when it’s time to hit the road, the slim profile and travel-ready …
Samsung Electronics unveiled its mobile WiMAX enabled handheld device ‘Mondi’ during World IT Show 1009 in Korea market.
The Mondi carries many of the powerful features and uses of a laptop computer or netbook, but its compact slider form factor easily fits into the hand or pocket. GPS Navigation provided by Route 66 adds to the Mondi’s versatility. Available in a solid black finish, this device extends horizontally to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard and optical mouse. The Mondi™ is packed with multimedia features that offer instant access to E-mail, …
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After all the whining, the bickering, and the constant remarks about how Windows-based laptops have this and that and cost so much less, Apple, a company known to make its own rules, is finally letting down its guard. The lovable MacBook Pro 13-inch (now with the “Pro” moniker) has brought back the FireWire port, lowered its price, and for the first time in the company’s history, added the elusive SecureDigital (SD) slot. Mind you, we’re not ignoring the bigger and now-nonremovable battery, which scored an admirable 4 hours 44 minutes …
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Industry-Leading Mobility Players Bring Cohesive Vision, Opportunity for Global WiMAX Development and Adoption
Building on worldwide 4G WiMAX technology momentum, Beceem Communications, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans Communications and UQ Communications have joined the Open Patent Alliance (OPA).
Formed in June 2008, the OPA is dedicated to offering intellectual property rights (IPR) solutions that support the development and widespread adoption of WiMAX around the globe, further boosting the open industry standard approach to 4G wireless broadband.
Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans and UQ come in as associate (non-board-level) members, joining current OPA members Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, …
£8 million a year to Microsoft, with no public bidding. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, say open source activists
Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip service for open source, according to commentators.
The Red Hat group has asked a Swiss federal court to overturn a three-year contract issued to Microsoft by the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics, to …
During May 11th to May 14th, MSI pulled the plugs as it set out to penetrate the global market with its new generation of slender, light X-Slim Series notebooks. In recent days, MSI has held product launching ceremonies in Frankfurt, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; and Sydney, Australia. MSI President Joseph Hsu, Senior Vice President Henry Lu, and Ted Hung, Assistant Vice President of Business Development Department, officially launched MSI’s complete series of super thin, super light X-Slim laptops equipped with Intel’s CULV platform, underscoring the company’s determination to make headway into …
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The most common Xbox 360 problem is caused by overheating. The reason is, if you think about it, just like an expensive gaming PC, your 360 has a lot of electronic components inside. The console box is considerably smaller than a PC and a bunch of heat is created with all of those components packed in there.
The dreaded 3 red lights problem is caused by overheating the majority of the time and there are a number of ways you can prevent this. First off, make sure that you do NOT …
Two teachers here decided to keep their Teachers’ Day celebration private and ended up being busted for alleged khalwat (close proximity).
The two, both married, were “caught in the act” at 2:30am on Saturday in a rented house during a raid by a group of religious officers from the Negri Sembilan Islamic Affairs Department.
“We’ve been receiving complaints from concerned parties about the couple’s indecent behaviour,” claimed a department spokesman.
“We observed them closely for three months before finally taking action. It was hard to nail them because they’ve been moving from one …
Intel Corp. (INTC) will have to pay a record EUR1.06 billion fine for breaking European antitrust laws, the European Commission said Wednesday.
The executive arm of the European Union found the world’s largest computer chip maker illegally kept smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) out of competition by paying computer manufacturers and retailers not to use its products.
The commission said Intel provided rebates to computer makers on condition they bought most – often up to 95% – of their computer chips from Intel. Intel also made direct payments to major …
NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Solutions Become Mainstream as Number of GPU Optimized Applications Soars
NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that the Tesla™ C1060 GPU Computing processor, based on the massively parallel CUDA™ architecture, is now available in Dell Precision R5400, T5500 and T7500 workstations.
“The Dell Precision R5400, T7500 and T5500 together with the Tesla GPU computing processors is putting the power of supercomputing on the desktop,” said Greg Weir, senior manager, Dell Product Group. “We have seen early praise for the efforts of both Dell and NVIDIA to …
Lenovo is a great brand name manufacturer of laptops. You will be hard pressed to find laptop models from Lenovo which are of inferior quality. In this article, we will take a look at the Lenovo X300 laptop, one of the latest models to be released by Lenovo.
1. Overview
The first thing you notice about the Lenovo X300? Its price. At $3000 street, it is certainly not a cheap laptop. However, it goes head-to-head with the Apple MacBook Air in terms of weight- except that it has all the sensible, solid …
A configuration change has fixed the 3G reception issues that plagued its iPhone rival,
The new HTC Touch Cruise™, an update to 2008’s popular HTC GPS device of the same name
Seeing is believing
