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Tablet shipments up 200 percent as netbook demand tanks
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Tablet shipments soared 200 percent over the past years, according to research company Canalys, but Apple didn't ship enough iPads in Q1 to retain the No. 1 position for the most client PCs shipped. The distinction went to HP, which has bounced back from a rocky 2011, spurred in part by an improving global economy that helped push notebook shipments up by 11 percent and desktop shipments up by 8 percent.
The future of netbooks, meanwhile, doesn't look particularly bright. Shipments for that breed of computing hardware were down 34 percent year over year, marking the sixth successive quarterly decline.
"Most of the leading PC vendors have done a reasonable job of offsetting the declines in th...
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Acer B243PWL 24-Inch IPS Monitor
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Acer has once again expanded its line of IPS monitors by launching the B243PWL. This new 24-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 1920 x 1200 native resolution, 100,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 14ms response time, and features D-Sub, DVI and DisplayPort connectors. The B243PWL is available now for $329 MSRP.
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Epson Named Top Projector Brand Worldwide
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Epson is happy to announce that for the fifth year in a row the company has been named the #1 projector retails brand worldwide. The title was granted to them by the annual Supplier Loyalty Report by inside track. In order to receive the award, the company has to rank #1 in a variety of categories. Epson took 10 out of the 16 categories, including the first time, Product Innovation, Product Reliability, Assortment, Inventory Turns, and more. “Epson is thrilled to be recognized by its dealers and installers, as they are such an integral part of the home entertainment channel,” said Richard Miller, group product manager, Projector Marketing and Development, Epson America. “We are constantly st...
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Optoma Unveils Go Green Sweepstakes
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Optoma is one of the leading makers of DLP projectors. Today, the company announced the release of a new sweepstakes called the Optoma Go Green. To enter, consumers have to go to the sweepstakes web page and fill out an entry form between now and June 30th. The winners will receive the company’s new ZX210ST projector, which is the company’s first to feature a hybrid lamp. The projector comes with 2000 ANSI lumens, XGA (1024 x 768) resolution, and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. “Optoma’s new EcoBright line is the company’s 6th generation of lamp-free projectors,” said Jon Grodem, the company’s senior director of product and marketing. “Since the introduction of our Pico projectors in 2008, Optoma h...
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Ricoh Releases PJWX4130 and PJWX4130N Projectors
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Ricoh is proud to announce today their first pair of ultra-short-throw projectors, the PJWX4130 and PJWX4130N. Both projectors include 2500 ANSI lumens, a 2500:1 contrast ratio, and a WXGA (1280 x 800) resolution. The main difference between the two projectors is in the control panel. Both projectors include a RGB, HDMI, composite, and an audio port. The PJWX4130N also includes USB port and wireless network connectivity. The projectors are designed for conference rooms and small-to-midsize meeting spaces. The short throw lens allows the projectors to create up to an 80 inch display from less than a foot away from the screen. “Ricoh’s mission is to provide a more efficient and productive work...
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The Samsung Galaxy S III Revealed: 4.8" HD SuperAMOLED, Exynos 4 Quad, Available 5/29 in Europe
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Apple is a bit infamous for its tight control over new products, particularly iPhones. Development mules are often updated internals stuffed into nondescript previous generation designs. And talk of new products is forbidden, until the official reveal. Samsung, seems to have taken a different tack with their latest flagship device, the Galaxy S III. In the weeks leading up to today's announcement there were positively dozens of leaked images and specifications lists. And each one seemed so pointedly different than the last to leave the tech press exhausted with confusion and anticipation. All those leaks are put to the test, now, though; as Samsung has just revealed their most advanced phone...
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Samsung Unveils GSIII Complete with Own Version of Siri
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After months of keeping us on the edges of our seats, Samsung has finally given the Galaxy S III an official unveiling. The company took the wraps off of the next Galaxy handset at its Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in London, UK at 7pm local time (2pm eastern time). So, were the rumors true? Read on to find out!
Specs for the Galaxy S III include a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED 1280 x 720 display; a quad-core Exynos processor; 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel camera on the back with a 1.9-megpixel affair up front (as opposed to the 1.3-megapixel lens that was rumored); Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with Samsung's TouchWiz UI on top and new gesture functions to improve navigation; and HSPA+ supp...
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Nvidia GeForce 301.34 Drivers
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NVIDIA FXAA Technology – shader-based anti-aliasing technology available from the NVIDIA Control Panel that enables ultra-fast anti-aliasing in hundreds of PC games. FXAA delivers similar quality to 4x multi-sample antialiasing (MSAA) but is up to 60% faster, enabling substantially higher performance in games. FXAA is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Note: This feature is disabled for games that already have built-in support for FXAA.
NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync – dynamically enables vertical sync based on your current frame rates for the smoothest gaming experience. Adaptive VSync is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
NVIDIA Frame Rate Target – dynamically ...
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Microsoft breaks down Windows 8's Media Center upgrade path, Dolby codec support
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Many in the Windows Media Center community were afraid that Windows 8 would mark the end of Media Center, while others thought it would be like Notepad -- present, but unchanged. In the end both were wrong as Microsoft announced Media Center would be available as an add-on to Windows 8. Until now though, we didn't know exactly how that process would work. Steven Sinofsky outlined on the Building Windows 8 blog how users will be able to use Add Features to Windows 8 in Control Panel and purchase the same great Media Center experience that was included in Windows 7 Premium and Pro. The price is still unannounced but is expect to be "in line with marginal costs" -- whatever that means. The pric...
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Pirate Bay Sees Traffic Increase by 12 Million After UK Block
Like UnlikeEarlier this week the British courts ordered five UK ISPs to block access to popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. In a blog post published on Tuesday, the team behind The Pirate Bay dubbed western countries "the worst culprits" when it came to censorship. However, it seems someone at TBP has been talking anonymously about how the block has affected the site and this person has revealed that it has actually resulted in a massive boost in traffic for the site.
TorrentFreak quotes a TPB insider as saying news of the ruling would only serve as "free advertising" and this insider seems to have hit the nail on the head. The Pirate Bay has apparently seen a massive surge in visitors, proving t...
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Canon offers EOS 5D Mark III firmware v1.1.2
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Canon has made the latest firmware (v1.1.2) for the EOS 5D Mark III available from its customer support websites. The update fixes a number of small bugs and adds compatibility with the GP-E2 GPS receiver. The file can be downloaded from your region's Canon support website.
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ECS X77H2-A3 Motherboard Pictured
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ECS revealed its newest value-segment LGA1155 motherboard based on the Z77 Express chipset, the X77H2-A3. Pictured below, the X77H2-A3 is a variation of the Z77H2-A3, with ECS' Super Alloy Chokes powering the CPU VRM, an all solid-state capacitor design, golden-colored VRM and PCH heatsinks, and slightly darker piano-black PCB. Besides these four, the X77H2-A3 is identical to the Z77H2-A3. It features a 4+1 phase CPU VRM, single PCI-Express 3.0 x16 expansion slot, two SATA 6 Gb/s, four SATA 3 Gb/s, four USB 3.0 ports (two front-panel, two rear), and display outputs that include DVI and D-Sub. Expect this model to be slightly pricier than its cousin.
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Microsoft Detects New Malware Attacking Mac OS X
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Jeong Wook Oh of Microsoft's Malware Protection Center reports that his team has stumbled across a new piece of malware targeting Apple OS X computers. It exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in the Office productivity suite which Microsoft actually patched back in June 2009 (MS09-027). Almost three years later, not all machines have the patch installed, thus leading to the spread of this new hacker tool.
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Hewlett Packard retakes top spot in Q1 2012 PC shipments
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Hewlett Packard regained the top spot for PC sales after losing out to Apple four months ago according to the latest industry figures published yesterday by market research firm Canalys. The results reveal that HP managed a 40,000 unit lead over the iPhone and iPad maker, the result of a slip in sales of their ever-popular tablets which fell to 11.8 million units during in the first quarter of 2012. In total, Apple shipped 15.8 million units during the three month period.
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Logitech president celebrates end-of-year earnings with management cull
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Logitech's Q4 and full-year report makes for uncomfortable reading. Despite profits increasing by a factor of nine in the last quarter of the year, overall annual profit fell 44 percent from $143 million to $71 million. The company has already parachuted in former Whirlpool exec. Bracken P. Darrel to turn things around and recover the losses made when the company went big on Google TV. His first action has been to kick-start a restructuring operation that will save $80 million in costs, starting by cutting a whole management layer -- demoting current product VP Junien Labrousse and firing sales VP Werner Heid. Mr. Darrell is now working directly with his team on a new lineup of "stronger" pr...
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