Razer Debuts Orochi BT Mouse And Kabuto Surface

Razer’s been on a roll of late, busting out a new mousepad in May, a Blizzcon contest last week and now a new duo of gaming gadgets. The first device is a new portable Bluetooth Laser mouse, which looks to provide portable gamers with the same precision and comfort that desktop gamers have grown used to. The Orochi retains that iconic, ambidextrous design, and it’s outfitted with a 4000dpi Razer Precision 3G Laser Sensor and dual mode wired/wireless functionality.There’s also 7 programmable buttons, Bluetooth

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Navigon MobileNavigator: GPS Comes To iPhone

Just like we heard back in June, Navigon is taking on TomTom and anyone else who dares enter the full-fledged iPhone navigation realm with its snazzy new MobileNavigator application. Released today in Apple’s App Store for the North American market (the European version was released last month), the program only works with iPhone OS 3.0. Navigon claims that this app is the first on-board iPhone navigation solution from a major navigation company, and while TomTom was first to announce plans, Navigon is the first

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Foxconn Official Disciplined Over iPhone Suicide

In the wake of a story about a Foxconn worker committing suicide after an iPhone prototype he was responsible for was lost, Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai has suspended a security official. Sun Tanyong, 25, an employee at Foxconn, reportedly committed suicide by jumping off his dormitory roof on July 16th after one of the 16 iPhone prototypes he was assigned to mail went missing. He had reportedly been subjected to rather heavy-handed tactics and searches. Bloomberg reports that the official has been identified

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Plastic Logic Confirms Specs, AT&T 3G For Reader

Amazon may have started the craze, but nowadays it feels like anyone and everyone is dabbling in the e-reader game. With the sector still blooming, companies are seemingly erupting from left field in order to toss their own Kindle rival into the ring, and one of the most promising we’ve seen is being crafted courtesy of Plastic Logic. The aforesaid company has been toiling away on its own reader for years now, and with “early 2010” just around the bend, it seems the ship date that digital bookworms have been

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Intel X25-M 160GB 34nm MLC G2 SSD Benchmark Review

Intel X25-M 160GB 34nm MLC G2 SSD Benchmark Review

Intel has moved to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its leading NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products and the results are spectacular. Read on to see how the Intel X25-M Mainstream 160GB Generation 2 SATA SSD does against more than a dozen other 2.5″ SATA drives!

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Fujifilm Announces Six New Cameras For Fall

Fujifilm unveiled six new FinePix models, including sub-$100 entry-level models as well as advanced megazoom cameras. At the upper end, you’ll find the new FinePix S200EXR and the F70EXR cameras, which offer the company’s high-quality Super CCD EXR sensor. Four of the models are sub-$200 models, including the bargain-priced, 10-megapixel A170 ($90) and the 12-megapixel A220 ($100). Here’s a closer look at each of the new models: FinePix S200EXRThe FinePix S200EXR is Fujifilm’s newest flagship megazoom camera

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Windows 7 Released to Manufacturing with Build 7600.16385

After months of testing, telemetry, and trials and leaked builds and gossip galore Microsoft has finally released Windows 7 to manufacturing. Release to manufacturing, or RTM, is the final build of the operating system before general release and general availability for consumers on October 22. The official sign-off was at 4:40 PM, a quirky time coinciding with the keynote speech at an internal sales and marketing event. For the record, the final build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 RTM will both be 7600, with Windows 7's RTM build known as 7600.16385.

Microsoft notes that there aren't many big differences between the Release Candidate and the RTM versions of Windows 7, with the only the changes that were really necessary included in the final revision. Many of those have been highlighted on the E7 blog and the Windows team blog (such as the recent post on the changes to ClearType). These changes aren't ones most consumers will notice, and you shouldn't expect dramatic changes in performance, although the team has been making small but steady improvements in performance ever since the operating system first started running on real-world hardware, according to Mike Angiulo, manager of the product planning and PC ecosystem team for Microsoft.

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A-DATA Announces Turbo Series SDHC Class 10 Memory Card

After the exciting release of its 600X CF card at Computex 2009, A-DATA Technology announced today another industry-leading memory card Turbo series SDHC Class 10 memory card. It supports the new SD Associations new Class 10 specification with a dramatic performance improvement in recording cameras on the market today. With high transfer rate of Class 10, the card enables digital camera users to easily capture sequential shots that used to be hard to catch due to the limitation of memory card speed.

A-DATA Class 10 SDHC Memory Card

Have you ever experienced the disappointment of missing an irreplaceable moment such as the first step of your child simply because your digital camera could not keep up with the act? Some consider DSLR the solution to the problem, yet the daunting price of DSLR makes it less accessible for entry-level users. With A-DATA Turbo series SDHC Class 10 performing at a transfer rate up to 22MBps on devices supporting SD v3.0, one could seize these important moments by recording every single move.

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AMD WHQL-Certified Graphics Drivers for Windows 7 RTM Ready

AMD today announced the release of the companys first WHQL-certified ATI Catalyst graphics drivers for Windows 7 Release to Manufacturing (RTM), an important milestone in the development of Microsofts next generation operating system. For ATI Radeon customers, the ATI Catalyst 9.7 driver is immediately available for download from game.amd.com. Simultaneously, the ATI Catalyst 8.632 driver has been made available for ATI FirePro professional graphics customers.

ATI Catalyst 9.7 graphics drivers

As we approach the final release of Windows 7, possibly Microsofts most visually impressive operating system to date, we continue to improve upon the industry leading stability and reliability of ATI Catalyst drivers in order to consistently deliver an incredibly immersive, high performance graphics experience to our customers, said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice president of software, AMD Products Group. Todays release of ATI Catalyst 9.7 and ATI Catalyst 8.632 drivers does exactly that, delivering incredibly stable and reliable graphics drivers.

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LG’s Pricey LH90 HDTV Lineup Ships In US

When most people see the THX logo, they think sound. And understandably so, given that said logo is in pretty much every theater and stamped onto a slew of higher-end audio products. But, contrary to popular belief, THX can also relate to video, though apparently getting certification for your HDTV costs a pretty penny. After posting stellar results for its most recent quarter, LG Electronics has introduced its first-ever THX-Certified display in the US market, and none of the three are anywhere close to “cheap.”The

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