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Apparently having a wider viewing angle notebook isn’t always beneficiary working in a tight cubicle environment or public hotsports location like Starbucks or bookstore. LG Display has developed a 14.1-inch laptop’s LCD panel with a privacy control feature; display with ability to change viewing angles, so the curious minds next to you wouldn’t be able [...]

Despite the recent Xbox 360 price-cuts, Sony are stubbornly refusing to reduce the sticker on their rival PlayStation 3 console.  In an interview with the Financial Times Kazuo Hirai, President and Group Chief Executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, reconfirmed that the PS3 would not see a reduction before the holidays.
“The answer is yes, if you’re [...]

Walmart has backtracked on its decision to shut down the DRM servers authenticating music tracks purchased from its MP3 Downloads store.  In a message sent to service users, Walmart cites “feedback from our customers” as the motivation for the turnaround, having announced last month that it would take the systems offline as it transitioned to [...]

Sling Media’s SlingCatcher is finally shipping, available from the company’s own online store as well as other retailers.  The box connects to a TV and allows streamed content from a SlingBox or SlingProjector-enabled computer to be played; Sling Media also intend to launch a premium content delivery service called Sling.com.

Intel are developing a netbook portal that could eventually become a source for not only processor information but apps specially coded for the budget ultraportable devices.  Speculation about the project began when Intel bought the netbook.com domain from its previous owner for an undisclosed sum.  It initially redirected to the company’s normal homepage, but has [...]

ASUS has admitted that its Eee Box nettop - the desktop version of its popular Eee PC netbook range - shipped to some customers carrying a virus.  According to an email sent out from the company, the Japanese version of the device has a virus file called “recycled.exe” saved in the D: drive partition.  If activated, [...]

HTC have no plans to bring flagship WM6.1 smartphone the HTC Touch HD to the US, citing engineering issues in supporting the 3G HSDPA and HSUPA bands.  In a Twitter message today, HTC revealed that the smartphone - which has a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and was already being hailed as the biggest threat to Apple’s [...]

It almost sounds a little too much like those “Bill Gates will send you a check for forwarding this email” scams, but apparently Microsoft is subsidizing certain hardware purchases to encourage use of its Live web search.  The “Live Search cashback” logo appears next to certain sponsored results for searches such as “cheap netbook” or [...]

American security forces are facing a mass examination of their hardware, as an ongoing investigation discovers that counterfeit computer chips and other devices have been sold to the US government.  According to a BusinessWeek report, recycled and fake microchips from Chinese vendors are being used - mistakenly or otherwise - in hardware distributed in America [...]

Last night some rumors were going around about whether or not AMD would be breaking up today, but it seems now the rumor is confirmed. The company will be splitting up and the news will be officially announced today.
A press release last night indicated that AMD would be making an important announcement today. It would [...]