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USB 3.0 Demoed at CES, Initial Peripherals en Route

Over at CES, Jeff Ravencroft, the president of the USB Implementers Forum discussed the arrival of USB 3.0 and gave a brief demonstration of transfer speeds on a Hewlett-Packard. The demo proved one thing: USB 3.0 is much faster than the current USB 2.0 protocol, a nearby display showing the one minute four second time […]

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Apple Releases Sexy, Romantic Printer Driver Updates for Snow Leopard

Printer driver updates may not be the sexiest thing to mention to your significant other after you’ve drawn her a hot bath, lit the candles and dimmed the lights, but they are necessary. I mean, everyone needs to print. Late Monday afternoon, Apple posted printer updates for Canon, Brother, HP, and Lexmark on its Support […]

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Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Pricing, Upgrades, Release Date

Microsoft let the Windows 7 details fly on Thursday with news of lower Windows 7 upgrade prices as well as a concession that lets owners of the now 8-year-old Windows XP move up to the new operating system at a lower price. According to AppleInsider, Microsoft detailed the pricing for the three editions of Windows […]

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Finance

Nvidia Admits to “Ongoing” Failure Problem in Some Notebooks During SEC Filing

Graphics processor firm Nvidia formally stated that some notebooks utilizing its chips continue to have “failure” issues, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. Per cnet, Nvidia stated that though it does not continue to see “abnormal failure rates” in systems using Nvidia products,” some notebooks are still affected. “We continue […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: How HP is different than Apple

On 23 January, 2006 CNet reporters Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit published a story (“HP outlines long-term strategy”) that detailed HP’s plans to improve the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, its commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies. The story was attributed to “a source with the company.” The Smoking […]