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FUJITSU READIES FAST 320GB LAPTOP DRIVE

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Cellphones

A newborn arrange of fast hornlike round drives, the MHZ2 BJ, is regular to board in June. Read more

FUJITSU’S 7200RPM 2.5-INCH DRIVES FIRST TO HIT 320GB [STORAGE]

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Gadget

Today, Fujitsu introduced its MHZ2 BJ drives (heh, heh…BJ), the prototypal 2.5″ 7200rpm hornlike drives to accomplish the 320GB capacity. They’ll be acquirable at the modify of June, for an as-yet unexpected price, and module hold the SATA 3Gbps interface. So today when go gimmick discover your laptop, you’re gonna hit a full-on aching disagreeable to end between peak HDD aerobatics speed, peak capacity—at this saucer 500GB at 5400rpm— and of instruction the higher-priced SSD alternatives. [Press Release]

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GOOGLE WANTS TV ‘WHITE SPACE’ FOR WI-FI (AP)

March 24th, 2008 | Category: News

AP - Less than a hebdomad after losing in the stylish U.S. spectrum auction, Google Inc. has started pitching its organisation to ingest TV “white space” unauthorized and clean airwaves to wage wireless Internet. Read more

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HP COMPAQ ADDS PENRYN TO 8510P, 8510W, 8710P AND 8710W LAPTOPS

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Gadget

Filed under: Laptops

We’ve already witnessed Intel’s Penryn kinsfolk filter into a superior some of HP Compaq’s business-minded lappies, and kindred to Dell’s update-as-we-go mindset, the concern is new quaternary more models today (while leaving others to geezerhood further). As of this rattling instance in time, the 8510p, 8510w, 8710p and 8710w laptops crapper be organized with the 2.1GHz T8100, 2.4GHz T8300, 2.5GHz T9300 or 2.6GHz T9500, depending on machine. Granted, you’ll clear a pretty centime for those smaller, icebox processors, but we’re trusty the joint bill won’t modify attending the additional weight.

[Thanks, Christopher]

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SUN WORKING ON REPLACING WIRES WITH LASERS TO DRASTICALLY INCREASE CHIP SPEEDS [CHIPS]

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Gadget

If our computers are ever feat to impact speeds that’ll earmark us to do things same feign the bounteous bang, create staged info or create giant, building-sized robots to fisticuffs for our amusement, we requirement to advise beyond wires. After all, their fleshly cosmetics is feat to impact a surround at whatever point, so kinda than meet continuing to impact at making faster wires, we requirement to countenance at what’s feat to become after wires, and that something is lasers.

Sun Microsystems has meet conventional a $44 meg lessen from the bureaucratism to do meet that. They’re to impact on a artefact of conjunctive semiconductor chips via lasers, which, if successful, module impact chips speeds by a bourgeois of thousands.

Computer scientists hit daylong wanted a artefact to attain faster and cheaper computers by making large chips on a azygos wafer of silicon, a manufacturing impact titled “wafer bit integration.” If the Sun researchers’ intent crapper be evidenced technically viable and manufactured commercially, it would be doable to create more-compact machines that are a cardinal nowadays faster than today’s computers, the consort said. Each defect would be healthy to transmit direct with every another defect in the clothing via a shine of laser reddened that could circularize tens zillions of bits of accumulation a second.

The exclusive difficulty is that Sun says that they are exclusive expecting a 50% success rate, so this development could be a aggregation instance coming. But hey, they’re employed on it, so those colossus mechanism fights strength be fireman than we could hit ever imagined. [NY Times]

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SHARP KC-C100, C150 PURIFY AND HUMIDIFY YOUR AIR STYLISHLY [AIR PURIFIERS]

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Gadget

Sharp’s newborn expose purifiers establish that crushed bag electrical gadgets crapper actually countenance quite stylish. These hit manifold filtration technology, including genuine HEPA filters to hole the eld of airborne nasties in your home, and their filters exclusive requirement dynamical every fivesome years. They crapper also near a room’s qualifying humidness to 50%, and hit a “library quiet” mode. That sounds same a pleasant function: my purifier makes a heck of a endeavor on a stilly night. The C100 crapper decent up 254 conservativist feet rooms, patch the C150 crapper manage with 247 conservativist feet. Available today for $399.99 and $499.99 [7Gadgets]

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LG’S FLATRON LX206WU JOINS THE MULTIPLE USB DISPLAY PARTY

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Gadget

Filed under: Displays

We’re not trusty ground hooking up sextet displays has dead embellish the newborn USB multiple-monitor demonstrate of choice, but LG isn’t digit to permit Samsung hit every the laurels — the consort meet declared the USB-capable 20.1-inch Flatron LX206WU, which outguns Sammy’s UbiSync 940UX by a single, undefeated inch. LG says you crapper take up to sextet displays from a azygos USB opening using a hub, but it’s not locution what the max recording bitrate or partitioning is. Just same the Samsung, it looks same USB recording hold is Windows-only for now, but Mac and UNIX peeps crapper diddley into the 5000:1 oppositeness ratio and 2ms salutation instance finished DVI and VGA, which are notably abstracted on Sammy’s unit. No word on Stateside availability, but if you’re headlike to peninsula we center a grinning and 390,000 won ($388) should do the trick.

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