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If short, intense sessions with your iPod are your bag, these new Maxell heaphones might just do the trick. Compatible with your fourth-gen iPod (or your first and second-gen iPod touch) the HP-NC20.IP earbuds offer active noise cancellation from 50-700Hz and noise suppression up to 20dB. Since they rely on the iPod dock for audio [...]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) [...]

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Got a touchy-feely idea you’d like to see on HP’s TouchSmart PC? Then by golly, it’s about time you got to work! HP has recently released its TouchSmart Application Developer Guidelines to third-party developers, enabling anyone with drive, ambition and skill (all three, not just one or two) to create their own “touch-friendly [...]

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How about a 64-bit operating system with that 64-bit processor?
The 64-bit version of Windows Vista is not new. It arrived when Vista did. But making it standard on a crush of new consumer laptops being sold at Best Buy is a recent change.

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Filed under: Laptops

We were certainly suitably impressed by HP’s new Mini 1000 netbook when we got our hands on it earlier this week, and it looks like that may be the common sentiment about the device, at least if this first batch of reviews is any indication. Like us, other folks were especially impressed by [...]

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Oh Rahul, why must you tease us so? Over a month after you referenced that “some other thing,” we’re still left to wonder what exactly “that thing” is. In a recent video response (posted after the break) to a question surrounding the HP Blackbird 002 gaming PC, Voodoo’s founder closes things out [...]

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Filed under: Laptops

No clue if HP will be sticking with the Digital Clutch moniker (wouldn’t be a bad choice, actually), but one’s thing for certain: it’s teaming up with Vivienne Tam for a highly decorated netbook. The shot you’re looking at above is just about all we have to go on, but obviously this one [...]

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Looks like this period of “rapid and profound change” on Wall Street hasn’t much fazed Microsoft (MSFT) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ). This morning Microsoft’s board authorized a new five-year billion share buyback plan and an 18 percent dividend boost. Meanwhile, HP said its board had approved the repurchase of billion in company stock. [...]

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We enjoy technological items and gadgets made out of wood. The latest are these pair of earphones from Radius. Their new SP-WMF11E small ebony speaker is a nice little pocket speaker. They have also released two pairs of wooden in-ear headphones. The speaker itself proved 1W of power, includes a USB port to [...]

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Hewlett-Packard lists 24 laptop model variations affected by a widely reported Nvidia graphics chip defect. HP said the flaw has been a warranty issue since November of last year.

Some HP DV9000 series notebooks used potentially defective Nvidia graphics chip
(Credit: CNET Networks)
Dell made a statement Friday regarding the …
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