Sony today introduced the brand new VAIO Fit laptop built with Sony's innovative digital imaging, sound and display technologies. "We built the brand new VAIO Fit line from many of the same features as our amazingly thin and powerful ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch model with a touchscreen. The new laptops are 36 percent thinner and 18 percent lighter than their ...
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A major problem with using Windows 8's touch-screen interface on a traditional computer has been having to reach across a keyboard to touch the display. Today, I was able to see firsthand a touch-screen laptop design that may solve this ...
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Toshiba has announced its WT310, a Windows 8 tablet to rival Microsoft’s Surface Pro. With Windows 8 Pro, an 11-inch Full HD screen and an Intel Ivy Bridge Core processor, Toshiba is taking aim the Surface Pro and other business ...
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According to analyst firm Gartner, in-memory computing is “racing towards mainstream adoption”. Gartner believes that the "rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies" and a continued "dramatic decline in the ...
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In-memory computing (IMC) will reach the enterprise mainstream by 2016, creating a market worth $1bn (£700m) by 2016. So say analysts at Gartner. The research firm cites the "rapid maturation of infrastructure technologies" coupled ...
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InFocus has announced a 55-inch touchscreen PC with Windows 8, which has an upgradeable design that is uncommon in all-in-one PCs. The Big Touch PC comes with a detachable hardware unit that contains a processor, storage and memory and ...
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Dell has introduced the versatile XPS 18 PC, an 18-inch all-in-one PC that can double as a supersized tablet. The XPS 18 runs Windows 8, and with a large touchscreen, has the look of a mammoth tablet. At 2.2 kilograms, the machine is not ...
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OCZ Technology is offering beta testers the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator represents a new direction. Instead ...
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EMC today released its first, purpose-built, all-solid state drive (SSD) array that is based on its XtremIO acquisition last year, as well as new software that identifies server flash throughout a data center and allows it to be managed ...
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Dell has released a new software product designed to make solid-state-drive caching on servers more efficient, resulting in improved performance of applications such as databases. The company's Fluid Cache 1.0 technology is the first ...
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A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
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Popular do-it-yourself website iFixit today gave Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet the lowest-possible repair score, just 1 out of a possible 10, after spending hours getting the device open. "The Surface Pro received a 1 out of 10 score ...
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Computerworld - Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. The Log in screen for the ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
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