Averatec Launches 12-inch N2700 Ultraportable

If you’re looking for a relatively low price ultraportable with a classic design and plenty of power to handle everyday tasks, then the Averatec N2700 might suit your needs. The N2700 is powered by a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 dual-core processor and comes with 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM, a 250GB SATA hard drive, 8x SuperMulti dual-layer DVD writer, and more. The Averatec N2700 has a slim design and comes with minimal bloatware. For connectivity, the N2700 features built-in 802.11b/g wireless connectivity along with

CoolIT Systems Acquires Delphi Liquid Cooling Assets

One of our readers tipped Legit Reviews off back in February 2009 that Delphi was visiting Calgary, Alberta to sell and turn over all of Delphi Thermal's Electronic Cooling engineering, products, patents and facilities in Mexico and China to CoolIT. The CEO of CoolIT wrote us an e-mail saying that we were dreaming, but it looks like he was trying to put one over on us as it was proved to be true today!

CoolIt Systems Corporate Logo

Today, CoolIT Systems announces the acquisition of Delphi Thermal Liquid Cooling assets including intellectual property, machinery, and equipment. The Delphi acquisition will provide CoolIT the additional mass market production resources to better accommodate the rapidly growing global industry demand for liquid cooled computers. As part of the Purchase Agreement, CoolIT Systems will be immediately servicing industry giants including Dell and Apple. With the acquisition, CoolIT reaffirms its position as the global leader in advanced liquid cooling for computers.

PC Power & Cooling Introduces the Silencer 910

PC Power & Cooling Introduces the Silencer 910 PSU, 80+ Silver Certified for the Ultimate Balance of Power and Efficiency OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and PC components, today unveiled the new Silencer 910 power supply from PC Power & Cooling. The Silencer line has proven itself as one of the most trusted PSU series on the market over the past twenty years, built for absolute stability and reliability for high end enthusiast

IBM’s Watson To Compete On Jeopardy! Game Show

We know it’s cliché, but really, what will they think up next? Just last month, researchers at IBM developed a supercomputer that could track some of the oldest English words to ever be uttered, and now another powerful machine will be tasked with taking on some of the quickest minds this planet has to offer… on one of America’s most adored game shows.Yep, sometime in the future an IBM machine will be competing with valedictorians and Quiz Bowl champions of yesteryear on Jeopardy! The system, which has been

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VIA to reduce capital to improve financial structure

VIA Technologies has decided to reduce its capital by 60% to NT$5.17 billion (US$153.4 million), with an effective date to be set during a shareholders meeting slated for June 19, the company said after a board meeting last week.

The company's net worth per share is expected to improve to NT$11.365 from the current NT$4.50 after the planned capital reduction, the company said. The company is estimated to still post losses in the first quarter of this year after recording a net loss of NT$4.02 billion in 2008, according to company sources.

Flip Ultra Pocket Camcorder Now in HD

Small, point-and-shoot video cameras have become increasingly popular recently, not just for their small form-factor and ease of use, but also because of their relatively low price tag. Perhaps no line of products exudes the aesthetic of these palm-sized camcorders more than that of Pure Digital Technologies’ Flip Video pocket camcorders. Despite the popularity of the Flip Video cameras and the bevy of copycat products from rival manufacturers, Pure Digital Technologies chose to do a stealth launch of it latest

Time Warner Pushes Caps With Customer Education

Time Warner is still on the bandwidth cap crusade and believes that customer education is what is needed to convince customers to see it their way.  Time Warner identified Rochester, New York as a hot spot for customer dissatisfaction and negative media coverage. Their remedy for this, send customer service representatives to homes for one on one “education”. Stopthecap.com reader Corrine in Rochester writes;     Hi, Phil. A very nice TWC “Residential Account Specialist” stopped at my house

Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts claim

A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail spam and installing spyware, they said.

Conficker installs a second virus, known as Waledac, that sends out e-mail spam without knowledge of the PC's owner, along with a fake anti-spyware program, Weafer said. The Waledac virus recruits the PCs into a second botnet that has existed for several years and specializes in distributing e-mail spam.

G.E.s Breakthrough on Holographic Storage Means 100 DVDs fit on a Disc

General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs. The storage advance, which G.E. is announcing on Monday, is just a laboratory success at this stage. The new technology must be made to work in products that can be mass-produced at affordable prices.

The promising work by the G.E. researchers is in the field of holographic storage. Holography is an optical process that stores not only three-dimensional images like the ones placed on many credit cards for security purposes, but the 1s and 0s of digital data as well. The data is encoded in light patterns that are stored in light-sensitive material. The holograms act like microscopic mirrors that refract light patterns when a laser shines on them, and so each holograms recorded data can then be retrieved and deciphered. Holographic storage has the potential to pack data far more densely than conventional optical technology, used in DVDs and the newer, high-capacity Blu-ray discs, in which information is stored as a pattern of laser-etched marks across the surface of a disc. The potential of holographic technology has long been known. The first research papers were published in the early 1960s.