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- 13 March 2013
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News: Dropbox 2.0 revamps menu bar interface
Dropbox has become a staple of many Mac users' workflows; combine that with the company's conservative autoupdate strategy, and you can bet that folks will be flocking to the cloud-storage service's website to download Dropbox 2.0.
- 12 March 2013
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News: AMD announces availability of its Elite A-Series APUs for notebook PCs
AMD today announced the availability of its AMD Elite A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), formerly codenamed Richland. These processors, designed for use in notebook PCs, combine either two or four x86 CPU cores with a graphics engine derived from AMD's Radeon HD 8000 series of discrete GPUs on the same chip.
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News: SXSW 2013: No new Twitter, but marketing and hardware stand out
South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.
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News: DRAM trends herald a slowdown in PC uptake
With accelerating growth in tablets and smartphones and a maturing of OSes, PCs are seeing far less growth in DRAM use.
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News: AMD's new laptop chips inspired by mobile devices, gaming consoles
As demand for PC processors plummets, Advanced Micro Devices has borrowed technologies from mobile devices and gaming consoles as a way to perk up sales for its latest A-series laptop processors that were introduced on Tuesday.
- 11 March 2013
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News: Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance
Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.
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News: Qualcomm learning how to incubate new technologies
Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing new innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker.
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News: AT&T to sell BlackBerry Z10 for $200 under contract March 22
AT&T will sell the BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone on March 22 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, the carrier confirmed.
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News: CEO at chip maker ST-Ericsson steps down
ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future.
- 09 March 2013
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News: How big data is transforming IT from a cost centre to a profit centre
The rise of big data is turning IT departments into “profit centres” for businesses, according to Hitachi Data Systems chief economist, David Merrill.
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News: For Qualcomm, there's more to LTE broadcast than saving networks
LTE broadcast could make video and other content run better on smartphones and tablets, and the emerging technology has at least one highly motivated backer in mobile chipmaker Qualcomm.
- 08 March 2013
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News: Toothpaste inspires better solar panels, batteries at PARC
They say inspiration can come from the most unlikely places. For a scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, the Xerox-owned lab in Silicon Valley best known as PARC, it came from a tube of toothpaste.
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News: Huawei leans on SAP to give enterprise push a boost
Huawei Technologies' enterprise division is ramping up its European presence, helped by the announcement this week that SAP has certified the company's servers to run its HANA in-memory platform. Such deals with SAP and other big software vendors will be key for Huawei to succeed in the enterprise.
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News: ExaGrid adds cloud option for disaster recovery
A backup-hardware maker is now embracing the cloud as part of its offering for disaster recovery.
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News: Schools test 'app store' for learning through Gates-funded project
Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right learning materials.
- 07 March 2013
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News: Prices of DRAM expected to stabilize, NAND to fall
After multiple years of double-digit drops, prices for DRAM could stabilize as demand exceeds supply and the number of memory makers dwindles, a research analyst for IC Insights said this week.
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News: KILL: Product snapshot: AMD "Richland" APU
The PC World Australia story, "Product snapshot: AMD 'Richland' APU," was sent to the newswire for distribution before an embargo time was lifted. The story, which posted Wednesday, has been removed from the wire. Online editors are asked to remove it from their websites as soon as possible
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News: Storage strategies for the brave new world
The enterprise storage picture is changing fast as resources are abstracted through virtualization, new computing options like cloud are embraced, and companies search for ways to extract more value out of the data they already are swimming in, even as more arrives in the guise of big data.
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News: Foxconn still in negotiations for Sharp stake, despite Samsung deal
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said it was still negotiating a deal for greater cooperation with Sharp, despite the Japanese display maker securing a US$110 million investment to supply LCD panels to rival Samsung Electronics.
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News: Storage controllers no longer last for years but months: VMtech
Storage controllers that would usually last for years end up becoming full in months. VMtech director, Len Findlay attributes this to more being put on the disk than before.
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New Xbox One release date, specs, features and price in UK
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 4 smartphone comparison review: what's the best Android?
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Surface Pro review - Microsoft tablet offers true power computing on the move
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