Latest Components News
- 15 October 2013
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News: Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth
Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead.
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News: Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage
Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday.
- 14 October 2013
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News: LG's curved G-Flex phone takes a bow in leaked press renders
Fresh off the heels of Samsung's new Gumby-y handset, the Galaxy Round, we've gotten our purported first look of the curved G-Flex phone from LG that is widely expected to be unveiled next month.
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News: Imagination dispatches Warrior CPU core to battle ARM and Intel
Imagination Technologies will deliver its first Warrior CPU core to device makers by the end of the year, beginning a campaign to make the MIPS architecture a more potent rival to ARM and x86.
- 11 October 2013
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News: Qualcomm's brain chip could turn your phone into a robot butler
If a cell phone can essentially see, hear, and detect movement like a person, shouldn't it start to think like a person, too? That's the basis of Qualcomm's Zeroth processor, designed to emulate millions of the billions of neurons within the human brain.
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News: MIT's 'Kinect of the future' looks through walls with X-ray like vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a device that can see through walls and pinpoint a person with incredible accuracy. They call it the "Kinect of the future," after Microsoft's Xbox 360 motion sensing camera.
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News: Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
- 10 October 2013
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News: Microsoft may expand Australian reseller Surface access
Microsoft is potentially looking into broadening reseller access to its Surface tablet devices in Australia.
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News: Virident builds up Asia Pacific presence
Server-side flash storage vendor, Virident, is building up its presence in the Asia Pacific market hiring Lincoln Goldsmith as its director of channel sales for Asia Pacific and Japan.
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News: Valve: AMD-based Steam Machines are also en route
Valve Software finally confirmed that the Steam Machine game consoles built by its hardware partners will include AMD graphics chips.
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News: Razer releases Blade and Blade Pro notebooks (+5 photos)
Performance PC vendor, Razer, is bringing its Blade range of ultra portable notebooks to Australia.
- 09 October 2013
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News: Intel changes mind, ships Haswell-based Pentium, Celeron processors
Aiming at budget laptops, Intel has started shipping new Pentium and Celeron processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture.
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News: Apple rules, Android drools for responsive tablet touchscreens
The results are in and gamers and musicians take heed: if you want a responsive tablet for data intensive gaming or music apps like Garage Band, then your best bet is the iPad. For everyone else, there's Android, but tablets running Google's open-source operating system aren't as finger-friendly as Microsoft's own Surface RT.
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News: Nice curves! Samsung introduces the Galaxy Round, a phone with a curved screen
Today, the barrier between smartphone and Pringles chip has become slightly thinner. Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Round, a 5.7-inch AMOLED display'd handset with a slight lengthwise curve. The phone will go on sale in South Korea beginning next week. There's no official word on availability for any other markets.
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News: Belkin continues to make a strong channel play, sets strong targets
As the home automation, wireless networking and mobile accessories markets continue to heat up, hardware accessories vendor, Belkin, expects to grow its local channel business by 40 per cent this financial year, according to managing director, Ian McLean.
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News: Seagate redeems shares held by Samsung
Storage hardware vendor, Seagate, has announced a private share redemption transaction with electronics manufacturer, Samsung, in the amount of 32.7 million ordinary shares, representing around nine per cent of the former's shares outstanding as of the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2014.
- 08 October 2013
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News: Intel chases Internet of things with new chips, software
Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called "Internet of things" with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering instruments.
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News: VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites
Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.
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News: Qualcomm backtracks from Apple A7 marketing gimmick comments
Qualcomm has backtracked from an earlier statement in which a company executive said Apple's A7 64-bit chip in the iPhone 5s is a marketing gimmick, and that the technical advance had limited benefits in mobile devices.
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News: New chip said to boost thumb drive performance up to 50%
Silicon Motion today announced it is sending samples of a new USB 3.0 controller chip that will boost performance in flash drives by up to 50%.
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Nexus 5 release date, price, photos, video and specs rumours
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Apple iPhone 5C vs iPhone 5 comparison review: What’s the difference between the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5?
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Tesco Hudl vs Google Nexus 7 comparison review: Which budget tablet is best?
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Nexus 5 release date, price, photos, video and specs rumours
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iPhone 6 release date: When will the iPhone 6 be launched?
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iPad mini 2 release date, specs and price in the UK 2013
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PS4 release date, specs and its backwards compatibility issues: What you need to know about the PlayStation 4
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Microsoft Surface 2: Release date, price, specs and accessories
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iPad mini vs Tesco Hudl tablet comparison review: should you buy a Tesco Hudl tablet or an iPad mini?
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Apple iPhone 5C vs iPhone 5 comparison review: What’s the difference between the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5?
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Tesco Hudl vs Google Nexus 7 comparison review: Which budget tablet is best?
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Kindle Fire HD vs Tesco Hudl vs Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet comparison review
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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How to set a song on your iPhone as a ringtone
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How to format a write-protected USB flash drive or memory card
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Create a group of contacts on your iPhone: also send group texts
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How to block a number on an iPhone in iOS 7, iOS 6
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