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It was only a matter of time before someone brought Web Enabled televisions to the table and it looks like Panasonic got their first. 
Panasonic’s new range of Plasma TVs allow you to access sites on the internet via a [...]

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It was only a matter of time before we saw the successor to the HT-CT100, a 3.1 speaker combo system from Sony. Now you have the option of bringing those golf ball size speakers to your Home-Cinema with the release of the HT-IS100 series: 
 
The HT-IS100 includes 4 tiny speakers of 43×43mm (70g), offers a total [...]

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Check out the long awaited Sony Bravia V4000 series LCD. 
 
These Full-HD models will be available in 40”, 46” and 52” ans will feature a dynamic contrast ratio of 33000:1, 24p True Cinema, a TNT TV tuner, Bravia Sync, 3 HDMI ports and the new Bravia Engine 2. 
Although these puppies look slick, i can’t wait to [...]

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GeekStuff4U is taking pre-orders on the Double Hard Drive rack that allows you to connect 2 SATA HDD (3.5″ and 2.5″) simultaneously! 
 
 
 
The rack features a USB 2.0 port and two eSATA ports. 
Available for €69 at GeekStuff4U

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Come July, Sharp will release three new Blu-Ray DVR (Digital Video recorders) in Japan - The BD-HDW30 with 1TB of storage, the BD-HDW25 (500GB), and the BD-HDW22 (250GB). 
 
 
 
All three DVRs record video in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, with three different BR (4.8, 8 and 12Mbps), have both digital and analog TV Tuners. They don’t support AVCREC and [...]

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For those that are looking for an uber leet gaming experience/rig, be sure to checkout AMD Game, a program designed to help us all select perfectly suited PCs for high-definition gaming.  
You don’t have to build your own system from scratch to get the raw multi-core performance and HD graphics capabilities needed to play the [...]

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Now this is what i call Home Cinema - Samsung’s 82 inch LCD TV with an Ultra Definition panel! 
 
The resolution of the UD (aka 4K x 2K) LCD Panel is 3,840 x 2,160px and is guaranteed to give those Full HD models a run for their money. This badboyl managed to get 120Hz technology and [...]

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The model e2 (o2 for USA) is a pocket size, full featured PC with a sliding 5 inch (127mm) WVGA LCD screen. Ergonomically designed for usability on the go, the model e2 features an integrated backlit thumb keyboard, track stick, and capacitive TouchScrollers™. 
 
From surfing the Internet to running Microsoft Office, the model e2 delivers the [...]

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Samsung Korea unveils 2 new printers claiming they are 2 of the smallest Color Laser printers ever built! 
The CLP-315K is 20% smaller than its predecessaors. It boasts 45dB, a resolution of 2,400 x 600 dpi, 32MB of internal memory, 16 pages per minutes (Black) and 4 pages per minutes (Color). 
 
The CLX-3175FNK is an All in [...]

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It’s one thing to put the kibosh on whispers of across-the-board layoffs; it’s another to go and fire twice the amount rumored. Sure enough, a recent report from the AP notes that the California-based chipmaker is expecting to layoff 10-percent of its 16,000-person workforce by Q3 2008. Additionally, the outfit is trimming its sales outlook [...]

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It’s just a rumor, though it’s likely spot-on given DigiTimes’ past success with its well placed ASUS source(s). Remember, they nailed the 9-inch touchscreen (rumor, announcement) as well as the 2nd generation ship date (rumor, announcement) among other notable successes. Apparently, ASUS is looking to get a jump on HP’s new Mini-Note and that upcoming [...]

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Mozilla have unveiled the 4th beta of Firefox 3 for download, however they have stated there will be at least another 5th Beta before  full release
Mozilla’s Devblog post:
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes [...]

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Details are a bit hazy on this one, but it looks like Taiwan-based Netronix Inc. is diving into serious e-book business. On their website you’ll find two featured e-book readers, the EB-100 with a 6-inch E ink screen, and the EB-300 with a spine-tingling 9.7-inch screen. The EB-100 looks very much like the other 6-inch [...]

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We’re not sure what whacky voodoo snakeoil these MetaRam people are peddling, but the company’s got some high profile behind it (like Intel, for one), is being led by former AMD CTO Fred Weber, has appears to have some potentially revolutionary RAM quadrupling technology. Claiming to have leapfrogged current RAM technology by 2-4 years, MetaRam [...]

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While many stores are slashing down HD DVD player prices as much as management will allow, it seems that one diehard supporter is casting a blind eye to the whole format war meltdown. Rock — which tooted its own horn after making HD DVD standard on many of its laptops — hasn’t changed its approach [...]

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