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Article | 13/01/2009 Keyboard Learns, Self-Adjusts to Your Typing Style

We all know about the need to take breaks stave off muscle fatigue, but let's face it: hours can pass while we stay in the same keyboard, pounding on ...

Article | 14/01/2009 Lenovo puts Atom chip in fan-less desktop

Lenovo launched its first nettop on Tuesday, reaching out to budget buyers with an inexpensive, fan-less desktop designed for surfing the Web and othe...

Article | 14/01/2009 Panasonic announces price hikes from 8-22 per cent

Panasonic Australia will raise prices on its current range of consumer electronics products from February 1.

Article | 9/01/2009 Samsung's New Laptop-Friendly Monitors

Among Samsung's new wares unveiled at this year's Consumer Electronics Show is the LD series of monitors. These monitors are designed specifically wit...

Article | 9/01/2009 Samsung Unveils New LCD and Plasma TVs

Samsung announced that it is breaking out its LED-backlit HDTVs into their own line, called Luxia.

Article | 11/01/2009 Toshiba, Hitachi show gesture-controlled TVs

We're all used to hitting the power button to switch on our television but could a wave do it in the future? Both Hitachi and Toshiba are demonstratin...

Article | 12/01/2009 Toshiba shows its first TransferJet prototypes

The first prototypes from Toshiba based on TransferJet, a short-range, high-speed wireless data transmission system intended as a replacement for cabl...

Article | 12/01/2009 MSI to sell MacBook Air-rival with Intel Pentium chips

Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to sell a laptop in its X-Slim series with a high powered Pentium chip to better compete against Apple's ultra-th...

Article | 12/01/2009 MSI U115 hybrid netbook to launch in US this Feb.

Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to start selling its U115 hybrid netbook in the U.S. for less than US$700 starting in February, company represent...

Article | 12/01/2009 Shuttle to debut small K5600+ PC with Via Nano in March

Taiwanese PC vendor Shuttle plans to debut a shoebox sized PC, the K5600+ with Via Technology's Nano microprocessor in March, a company representative...

Article | 12/01/2009 Instant-on PCs could take off with netbooks

Many of us spend too much time watching the Windows boot screen, but that could change as companies introduce small laptops that boot in a few seconds...

Article | 12/01/2009 USB has yet to win nod from monitor makers or Microsoft

Two video connectors can be found on nearly every PC, monitor or graphics card in use today. Developed 21 years ago by IBM, the analog VGA (Video Grap...

Article | 12/01/2009 Microsoft testing a better rival to Google Docs

Microsoft has begun testing some Web-based Office applications that will be delivered through Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft O...

Article | 10/01/2009 Report: Companies use Word out of habit, not necessity

Companies may use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web ha...

Article | 9/01/2009 Sony unveils small, flexible OLED screen

Sony has brought to CES a flexible color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that could be seen in future, highly portable electronics devices.

Article | 8/01/2009 Vietnam pushes open-source software for government use

The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated...

Article | 8/01/2009 Panasonic shows off thin plasma TV prototype

LCD TVs aren't the only TVs that can be thin. On Wednesday, Panasonic demonstrated a plasma TV set that is one-third of an inch thin -- or 8.8 millime...

Article | 8/01/2009 AMD launches its fastest desktop chips ever

In an attempt to gain an advantage in the gaming PC market, Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday launched what it called its "highest-performing CPUs" t...

Article | 9/01/2009 Nvidia closing in on 2 teraflops with graphics card

In a bid to boost 3D gaming, Nvidia on Thursday announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops.

Article | 9/01/2009 Web designers admit to trashing client's Web site

Executives from a Seattle-area consulting company are facing prison time after pleading guilty to charges that they wiped a client's Web site off the ...