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- 03 October 2011
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How-Tos: Can my laptop use extra RAM?
A reader attempted to upgrade the RAM in his two-year-old laptop. But his PC seemed to recognise only 2GB of the extra memory. Our Helproom Expert shows how to check how much RAM your laptop can take.
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Opinion: Transfer Files From of a Really Old PC
Rosalyn wants to move data from a 14-year-old, Windows 98 computer to a brand new one.
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News: Fusion-io doubles flash card's speed, capacity; halves price
Fusion-io today released the first upgrade to its flash drive hardware in four years, increasing throughput to 3GBps and the capacity of a full-length flash card to 2.4TB.
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News: Toshiba to sell 5TB home media server in Japan
Toshiba announced a new home media server with five terabytes of storage on Monday: It has enough capacity to store 15 days of digital TV broadcasts from six channels.
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News: Adapteva aims 64-core chip at tablets, smartphones
Smartphones and tablets are demanding more computing power, and chip company Adapteva hopes to bring server-type performance to the devices with a chip it is announcing on Monday.
- 30 September 2011
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News: Hitachi-LG Data Storage to plead guilty on price-fixing
Hitachi-LG Data Storage has agreed to plead guilty in connection with rigging bids and fixing prices for sales of optical disc drives and will pay a US$21.1 million fine, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.
- 29 September 2011
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News: Tablets, smartphones to get speed boost with new memory
A new form of mobile DDR3 memory that can speed up tablets, smartphones and laptops could appear in devices starting as early as late next year, with adoption ramping up in 2013, analysts said on Thursday.
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Opinion: Researchers Fashion Wearable Copper Wire Memory
We've already got wearable technology down when it comes to lighting and an augmented reality interface, but what about storage? Two NASA scientists have figured out a way to weave copper wire into a form for memory storage.
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Opinion: Stream and Share Your Files Anywhere with LaPlug
Sharing and streaming files across your home network and Internet gets easier with the introduction of a network-friendly external dives, called LaPlug, from the storage and wireless device firm LaCie.
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News: Speedy Thunderbolt devices slowly coming to market
Talk to tech industry insiders about the new Thunderbolt data ports in the latest generation of Apple computers, and one concept repeatedly pops up: Speed. The technology enables data transfer at speeds and volume that few consumers have ever seen before.
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News: Big News from BoxWorks '11
Today is the inaugural Box.net conference for customers and developers--BoxWorks. Box.net CEO and co-founder used the event to announce a slew of new features and updates, as well as a few key partnerships.
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News: Thunderbolt Display teardown reveals a lot of chips
A teardown of Apple's Thunderbolt Display has revealed a large, brushless fan and a logic board teeming with chips.
- 28 September 2011
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News: QLogic unveils upgrades to converged network products
QLogic today announced upgrades to its line of converged network adapters, as well as a new switch and router product that can consolidate LAN traffic.
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News: Hurd sees long Sparc, Solaris roadmap
Oracle has developed a hardware roadmap that it hopes can pull Sparc away from its Sun Microsystems legacy.
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News: IBM to lead $4.4 billion chip investment in New York
Five chip makers, including Intel, IBM, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have committed investment of US$4.4 billion in research and development in the state of New York over the next five years, to develop new 450-millimeter chip wafer technology, the state's governor Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday.
- 27 September 2011
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News: Violin releases two new flash memory arrays
Violin Memory released an upgrade to an all-flash memory array, doubling the capacity, as well as a new higher-end line of arrays that store up to 20TB per 3U shelf with an aggregate of 4GBps throughput.
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News: OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching
OCZ's latest SSD, the Synapse, works in conjunction with a computer's regular hard drive to boost performance.
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News: Oracle's Sparc SuperCluster due by year end
Oracle has launched its new Sparc T4 processor, along with new hardware that it hopes will turn up the heat on server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
- 26 September 2011
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News: Intel ships a new generation of Atom chips
Intel on Monday started shipping new low-power Atom chips built on the platform code-named Cedar Trail, with numerous improvements to boost graphics and application performance over their predecessor.
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News: Apple Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables
Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year, an Intel spokesman said.
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