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Geek.com is undergoing significant upgrades during the hours of midnight and 10am EST on Monday. During that time any new comments to news items or forums may be lost.
Once the upgrades are complete we will resume daily posting and will update you on any new functionality brought on by the upgrade.
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Ericson and STMicroelectronics have announced a deal to combine Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a joint venture into a single, 50-50 joint venture, with ST planning to buy the 20 percent of ST-NXP Wireless it doesn’t already own from fellow chipmaker NXP.
The companies already...
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Whether it is because of E3 this week or last week being dominated by iPhone news there was a lot of interesting tech news over the last few days. It’s Monday and you are probably at work, so now you have time to catch up on your reading. Here are the highlights: Crackberry posted exclusive shots...
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Samsung has brought the wider adoption of solid-state drives (SSD) as a replacement to hard disk drives in laptops one step closer with their launch of a new SSD drive. The drive is not only said to be the world’s fastest, but it is also the world’s largest 2.5-inch SSD MLC-based drive. The...
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Few devices have been as highly awaited only to be as universally panned as HTC’s Shift. This may seem like a harsh assessment but after a very long wait for the device, most people found it to be lacking. Between the devices performance issues and a serious price tag plus the explosive growth...
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I’ve mentioned this movie countless times here on Geek.com, but back in the early 1980s there was a Tom Selleck movie called Runaway. In that movie, Selleck’s character played a special division of the police department, one responsible for dealing with uber high-end electronic devices programmed...
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Yesterday, Motorola announced that it has made a critical investment in the future of virtualization for mobile phones. While the idea itself seems to have a single device simultaneously operating as a Blackberry, Windows Mobile or Palm device with just the push of a “next OS” button, in...
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Thanks to Sharp, we all just got a look at what will be the first device to be released with Intel’s Atom processor. The D4, which Sharp will be manufacturing for Japanese telecom Willcom, should be arriving some time in June and will be powered by a 1.33GHz Atom processor. The Z520 processor is...
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Despite being a highly anticipated competitor to the Asus Eee, the Cloudbook ended up being a disappointment. The $400 sub-ultraportable notebook was widely panned by critics for its slow hard drive, overheating issues, and poorly designed cursor controls. Even though it largely followed in the footsteps...
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We’ve had very little news about Lenovo’s Ideapad line since their announcement at the beginning of this year. It was a big deal at the time, but since then the IdeaPad has become just another midrange notebook line. The most exciting product, the 11.1-inch U110, is not available yet, despite...
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Researchers at the Australian National Information and Communications Technology Research Center of Excellence (NICTA) have managed to create a new single-chip transmitter and receiver that can send and receive data at 5 Gbps.
The chip uses the 60GHz range, has a range of 11 yards, is just 0.2 x 0.2...