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Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

The flow of news hasn't been overwhelming this week, but we've still dug up a few interesting announcements that didn't make it into our main...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cases Input devices

We're not seeing too many e-mails about new product launches in our inbox this week. Luckily, Toshiba and Thermaltake have made up for it with...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Mobile computing

At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference yesterday, company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed an aggressive development schedule for next-generation Tegra system-on-chips. Tegra 3 is "almost done,"...

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After much deliberation, we've selected three winners for our Xonar giveaway. Entrants were asked to describe their PC audio setup, and there's...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia The Tech Report

Sandy Bridge isn't the only Intel chip with special sauce to speed up video encoding. Intel has announced the Atom CE4200, a.k.a. Groveland, a new...

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There's still time to enter our Xonar giveaway. To celebrate three years of Xonar sound cards, many of which have won awards here...

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Asus is celebrating a birthday. The company's line of Xonar sound cards turns three this year, and to commemorate the occasion, Asus is

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We wrote yesterday about the new Apple TV, which lets users rent TV episodes for 99 cents a pop. That might sound like a...

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As has become tradition, Apple guru Steve Jobs had one more thing to announce at today's iPod event. This time, it was a new...

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Forgive today's deluge of Apple posts, but the company introduced quite a lot of interesting new products in the span of a couple of hours....

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There's no lack of meat in our stew of product announcements this week. We've got news from Eurocom, MSI, and NZXT:

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Power Mobile computing

With the exception of my desktop, the next most often-used PC in my home sits in the living room. I've had one in there for...

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Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Systems

As HTML5 video starts to look like an increasingly viable alternative to Flash, Adobe is already thinking ahead—to other perks that can keep Flash in...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Software

This week, we've collected launch announcements from Atlona, Enermax, Thermaltake, WarMouse. Let's start with the enthusiast gear: ...

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Before long, PC graphics cards could start sprouting Ethernet jacks. No, I'm not talking about the freakish GPU/NIC hybrid we saw at CES....

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Newegg has kicked off Fourth of July celebrations a little early this year, e-mailing us a cornucopia of coupon codes that can shrink prices...

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Is HTML5 about to take over as the standard for video on the web, as people like Steve Jobs suggest, or does it still...

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