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Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that "fewer than five" ARM tablets would be available at the Windows 8 launch (which, it added, would take place in...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Raise your hand if you have a portable hard drive. I thought so. There was a time when flash-based thumb drives were capacious...

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Right now, Firefox is in a bit of an odd place when it comes to HTML5 video: it supports Ogg Theora and Google's WebM codecs,...

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That newfangled iPad seems to be selling pretty well, despite the mildly confusing branding. Apple revealed earlier today that it's sold no fewer than

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Right now, the platters in Seagate's Barracuda 3TB hard drive pack 620 gigabits into every square inch of surface area. That areal density is...

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Airline travel can be frustrating. In addition to the long security lines, painfully cramped seats, and lousy food, there's the annoyance of having to...

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Despite that Ivy Bridge delay Intel vaguely confirmed last month, Apple's next-gen MacBooks may already in production, according to supply-chain sources quoted by...

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Got one of them fancy Macs with Thunderbolt ports? Then you might be interested to learn about Western Digital's new, Thunderbolt-infused "storage system," the...

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In this week's look at miscellaneous product launches and announcements, we bring news from Antec, Genius, Lian Li, and Toshiba: Antec...

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Marvell is one of the most popular controller makers in the SSD business. Its chips underpin drives from the likes of Intel, Crucial, and Corsair,...

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Last year, in an apparent display of one-upmanship, Mozilla decided to speed up Firefox's release cycle dramatically. The result? We went from Firefox 4 to...

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Details about Nvidia's next-generation graphics architecture weren't supposed to be out this early. However, Acer's Kepler-equipped Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 notebook has already made...

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So, a lot of folks probably got tablets for Christmas. IDC has numbers for the fourth quarter of last year, and they're pretty...

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A new version of Firefox has arrived, and users have two major new features to look forward to: add-on sync, which lets you synchronize...

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So, did you pre-order a "new iPad?" After really enjoying the iPad 2 and being very excited about the prospect of that high-density display,...

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Yesterday, we told you all about the upcoming version of Firefox for Windows 8's Metro environment. Well, we told you as much as Mozilla's...

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Good news, Firefox users. If you plan to use Windows 8 on a touch-enabled system, you won't be stuck with Internet Explorer. Firefox Platform Engineer...

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As one might expect, Asus is prepping Ivy Bridge updates for its UX-series ultraportables. In addition to featuring Intel's latest CPU, The Verge

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