Father's Day GPS bargains
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Chinese PC vendor Lenovo has announced plans to challenge Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo with a motion sensing peripheral of its own. The 'Ebox' is a new gaming device that enables users to interact with games without using a controller -- just like Microsoft Kinect.
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Father's Day GPS bargains
We round up five of the best budget sat navs for your dad this Father's Day.
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How to choose a desktop Linux distribution
With all the many reasons to use Linux today -- particularly in a business setting --it's often a relatively easy decision to give Windows the boot. What can be more difficult, however, is deciding which of the hundreds of Linux distributions out there is best for you and your business.
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Father's Day GPS bargains
We round up five of the best budget sat navs for your dad this Father's Day.
From Einstein to Xbox: The IFA consumer electronics exhibition turns 50
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Apacer Technology Announces the New AP520 USB Hub, A lightweight, easy-to-carry 4-port Hub that livens up your digital life!
As laptops are becoming downsized and compact than ever, the resultant decrease in the number of built-in USB ports has caused inconvenience to users. Today, Apacer, by introducing its new AP520 USB hub, has brought a good solution to laptop users. Apacer’s AP520 USB hub is a 4-port USB hub with ultra-compact size, its concealable USB design makes AP520 easy-to-carry and it’s powered by either USB or external power supply, enables it to handle highly power-consuming devices at the same time. This allows laptop users to freely expand their USB connections! 4- port USB for more flexibility There are many types of USB devices that users might use at the same time, such as a mouse, a portable hard drive, a flash drive and a card reader, but most laptops only provide maximum two or three USB ports. Users often feel restricted when they need to connect a few USB devices. Now Laptop users are free of this problem and do not need to frequently plug and unplug USB connectors! AP520 has four USB ports, allowing users to add up to four USB peripherals simultaneously to laptop. AP520 is not only fully functional, but also livens up digital life from its exuberant color and dynamic circular shape. Its lively round shape breaks the stereotype of digital products that are often in the form of cuboids. Light, compact and concealable cable design for easy portability AP520 is designed to be light and compact, it weights only 32 grams! This superbly lightweight product is ideal for the laptop users. Besides, the concealable USB design spares user’s space and no worry of losing USB cable. This design makes it a great portable hub for laptop users. Notice that, each USB port has sufficient room, so there is no interference among USB hub ports.
Apacer Technology Inc. 02/09/2010 19:36
AVG Threat Labs to Provide Innovative, Free DetectionTools to Internet Community
AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today announced a limited public beta test of its new online tool, AVG Threat Labs. Designed to help consumers combat criminal elements on the Web, Threat Labs is an innovative online information portal that merges the quantitative Web threat detection data that AVG routinely collects from its almost 100 million users with data from AVG’s LinkScanner technology.
AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd 02/09/2010 15:01
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NetApp extends current leadership in delivering shared storage infrastructure for virtualized environments
NetApp 01/09/2010 17:06
NETAPP DELIVERS MAXIMUM DESKTOP EFFICIENCY TO VMWARE® VIEW™ 4.5 CUSTOMERS
NetApp and VMware Demonstrate Scalability and Performance with Largest Documented Global VDI Deployment
NetApp 01/09/2010 17:05
FUJI XEROX PRINTERS APPOINTS NEW DISTRIBUTOR FOR CONSUMABLES
Fuji Xerox Printers announces Dynamic Supplies as its new distributor for consumables in Australia.
Fuji Xerox Printers 01/09/2010 17:02

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