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Samsung, Toshiba take on Apple with 'iPad killers'

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Competition to Apple's highly successful iPad hotted up on Thursday as Samsung and Toshiba unveiled rival tablet PCs that they hope will steal some of the Californian giant's thunder.

23 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Fire hazard forces Toshiba laptop recall

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Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has recalled 41,000 laptop computers worldwide because of a fire risk, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

15 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Dynamic memory mapping delivers additional flexibility to virtual resource management

The Department of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, has shown that a novel dynamic memory mapping model brings about additional flexibility to virtual resource ...

Thu 2 Sep 10 from Eurekalert

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FEI Introduces New Software Solutions for Natural Resource Extraction

FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications across many industries, announces the availability of two new software s...

Wed 1 Sep 10 from AZoNano

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MDS Nordion Appoints Kenneth Newport to its Board of Directors

OTTAWA, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leader in providing products and services for the global health sciences market, today announced that Kenneth Newport of Ottawa, Canada ...

18 hours ago from RedOrbit

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Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3Par

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(AP) -- Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage ...

Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg

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China's mobile users must show ID to get number

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Cellphone customers in China must provide identification from Wednesday to purchase a new number, state media said -- the latest step by Beijing to tighten curbs over the world's largest mobile ...

Wed 1 Sep 10 from PhysOrg

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IBM Unveils World's Fastest Microprocessor

IBM unveiled details Wednesday about its new advanced chips that the company says can process information at record-breaking speeds.

Wed 1 Sep 10 from FOXNews

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Elpida and Spansion develop 4-Gigabit NAND flash memory

Elpida Memory and Spansion today announced they have created the industry's first charge-trapping 1.8 V, 4-gigabit SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND Flash memory. This NAND memory, based on Spansion's ...

Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg

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Samsung officially reveals Galaxy Tab, an Android tablet

In what could be the very first Android-based tablet that poses a direct threat to the iPad, Samsung has given us the first look at its Galaxy Tab device. read more

Thu 2 Sep 10 from TG Daily

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