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Dell has released a new line of notebooks aimed at multimedia creators. The Studio laptops will sport a number of features designed for high-end multimedia users, such as an optional blu-ray drive and a high-resolution 17-inch screen.

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Toshiba Corp. today launched an ultraportable laptop, Portégé R500-S5007V that it claims is the world’s lightest laptop. The device weighs 2.4 lbs with one 128GB Solid-State drive.

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Following growing consumer demand for larger capacity, high-speed memory cards Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a global leader in flash memory products and DRAM memory modules, today unveiled its new Extreme Speed 300X a worthy addition to Transcend’s award-winning line of high speed, ultra-reliable flash memory cards.

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Advanced Micro Devices releases four more versions of its quad-core Opterons server chip, adding more performance to the company’s product line. The four quad-core processors now available are the 2.5GHz Opteron 2360 SE, 2.4GHz 2358 SE, 2.5GHz 8360 SE, and 2.4GHz 8358 SE. AMD also released three new Barcelona processors for single-socket servers earlier in June.
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A Supercomputer, Roadrunner built specifically to crunch military data has been unveiled by IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory boffins. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said the new computer will also be used to help solve global energy problems and “open new windows of knowledge” in basic research.

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FTC started a formal investigation today to find out whether Intel, world’s largest chip maker has used its dominance to suppress its competitors.

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The unveiling of multi-touch features in Windows 7 is part of an orchestrated effort this week to begin detailing the upcoming operating system, which is due in late 2009 or early 2010. One of the first companies was Albatron who demonstrated on this year’s Computex a 22″ touchscreen LCD display which would retail for roughly 120% of the price of a usual LCD without touchscreen feature. That surely sounds promising and a little bit surprising at the same time. It would make touchscreen LCD monitors affordable to the mass market.

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The new Nano Processor family from Via, based on Isaiah CPU architecture is going to hit the market very shortly. The Nano processors offer a significant performance boost over Via’s existing C7 line of processors and will compete against Intel’s Atom processors. Via Nano is also pin compatible with C7 processors allowing them to be used in existing motherboards and integrated systems

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Time Warner Cable Inc plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part of an overall home networking system, Chief Executive Glenn Britt said on Friday.
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Intel is expected to launch of its mobile platform Centrino 2, codenamed “Montevina” in July this year. Centrino 2 is the first platform to offer an integrated Wi-Fi and WiMax wireless access option, Intel said. In addition, the processor and other components are about 40% smaller and it has longer battery life.

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