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  • Dell reaches $100 million settlement with SEC

    Dell has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an investigation into the company’s accounting and financial reporting practices. They were accused of being deceptive about their commercial relationship with Intel. CEO Michael Dell will also pay a $4 million personal penalty for his role. This has not been a good month for Dell. In addition to the settlement, they were forced to admit some of their servers shipped with malware…

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Sony: 535,000 VAIO F and CW Series notebooks face potential overheating issue

by Natesh Sood on Jun 30, 2010 at 04:17 PM

Sony has a potentially big issue on their hands considering nearly 535,000 laptops in the F and CW Series might have an overheating problem.  Basically the heat-monitoring chips of the laptops don’t accurately monitor the heat produced by the laptop, and this problem is caused by a flawed BIOS.  The… Continue Reading »

Toshiba and UPS team up for an epic shipping FAIL

by Sue Walsh on Jun 24, 2010 at 12:43 PM

When you have to send your laptop in for repairs it’s never fun. Shipping it alone can be nerve wracking and with good reason. I had to send my 6 week old laptop into Toshiba last week because of a hard drive failure (It happens, even to brand new systems!).… Continue Reading »

New Sony VAIO Y and Z series feature Share My Connection

by Natesh Sood on Jun 17, 2010 at 08:17 PM

Similar to MiFi, the new Sony VAIO laptops in the Y and Z series support a feature known as Share My Connection which acts like a personal WiFi hotspot.  Select models within these two new series allow for five different devices to connect via WiFi to “Share My Connection” in… Continue Reading »

Alienware M11x adds Core i5 and i7, still starts under $1000

by Shawn Ingram on Jun 8, 2010 at 10:39 PM

The Alienware M11x is one of the best combinations of portability and power in a PC out there.  At under $1000 with an 11-inch screen and specs capable of running some of the newest games it was impressive even when it packed a Core 2 Duo.  Today Dell has upgraded… Continue Reading »

Lenovo makes the IdeaPad U160 notebook available in the US, priced from $1,049

by Robert Nelson on Jun 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM

The Lenovo IdeaPad U160 is now available for purchase by those in the US market. The IdeaPad U160 is available in two standard configurations, the 08945JU for $1,049 and the 89455U for $1,149. Both models are available in dark brown and feature goodies such as an 11.6 inch display with… Continue Reading »

Kindle for PC app now coming pre-installed on select Eee PC netbooks & notebooks

by Robert Nelson on May 24, 2010 at 01:31 PM

Asus and Amazon have teamed up, and moving forward you will be able to order select Asus notebooks and netbooks with the Amazon Kindle app for the PC pre-installed. The models that will be included in this promotion are the Eee PC 1005PE-MU27 netbook and the UL30A and the UL30VT… Continue Reading »

LaCie offers the Network Space MAX in 2TB and 4TB flavors

by Natesh Sood on May 20, 2010 at 12:44 PM

Having a reliable method to backup and share files is essential, especially when one has a lot of valuable media.  LaCie has begun to ship its latest addition to a lineup of external hard drives, the Network Space MAX unit available in a 2TB or 4TB model.  Both units can… Continue Reading »

Sony VAIO P notebook gets an update, now has an accelerometer and more

by Robert Nelson on May 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM

Sony has just rolled out an updated version of the VAIO P notebook for the European market. The new model is similar to the past, but has a few new additional features and some bright new exterior colors. One of the most interesting was the addition of the accelerometer. With… Continue Reading »

Toshiba set to launch the world’s lightest 13 inch laptop

by Tarun Kunwar on May 10, 2010 at 08:36 AM

Although still not 100% official, you can’t help but drool reading the specs on the soon to be world’s lightest 13” laptop. This sleek machine will come equipped with a second super charged ion battery which can apparently charge up to 90% in just ten minutes. Can you imagine charging… Continue Reading »

New leak from Dell shows two new devices

by Greg Billetdeaux on Apr 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM

A leak from AndroidCentral gives us a new Dell Roadmap for their MID/Netbook Tablet lines. It includes five devices, two of which this is the first time we’ve even heard of. They would be the Sparta netbook tablet and the Athens netbook. Both of them have 11-inch displays, an ARM… Continue Reading »

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