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Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives [Security]

from gizmodo - 1 day, 7 hours ago

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Warpia Easy Dock Spearheads the Wireless USB Revolution [Wireless USB]

from gizmodo - 1 day, 22 hours ago

Wires. Lame, right? Always getting tangled up, keeping you tethered to your desk. But! We've hit the age of wireless USB. Now Macbook and PC alike can connect cordlessly to any desktop sett ...

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Source R&D brings Wisair-based wireless docking station to Macs and PCs for $150

from engadget - 2 days, 3 hours ago

Remember that Wisair-based wireless display adapter that we knew was headed for Macville? Looks like she has arrived. Source R&D has just introduced a universal docking station of the wireless variety, and better still, it's completely plug-and-play with Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and OS X (Leopard / Snow Leopard). The Warpia Easy Dock is a pretty simple setup; just plug a transceiver into a free USB socket, attach two USB peripherals and a DVI monitor to the base station, and enjoy the luxury of using a real-deal keyboard, mouse and LCD when your laptop is at home. Unfortunately, the resolution of monitor is capped at 1,400 x ...

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Dell Precision M4500 Workstation Has Superman Guts In a 15.6" Body [Workstations]

from gizmodo - 2 days, 8 hours ago

Remember the hardcore guts of the Dell M6500 workstation? The M4500 is just like that, except at 15.6-inches you've ac ...

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Tata Nano EV represents the feasible side of our electric future

from engadget - 1 week ago

Oh sure, this might not accelerate to ludicrous speed in 3 seconds flat, and it might not look like something Jules Verne brought back from the future, but it is the one electro-vehicular concept we can reliably expect to see hit retail in 2011. Indian carmaker Tata promised us an eco-friendly version of its Read more ...

Dell's Latitude 13 business laptop now available, looking businessy

from engadget - 1 week, 2 days ago

Hey, if you're in the market for a beauty of a thin and light, and you mean business, you're in luck today. Dell's Latitude 13 laptop marketed for the business type (with a preinstalled Citrix client, simplified virtualization options and so on) is now available on the Dell site. With three customizing options -- base, economy, and productivity packages -- with a choice of Celeron M or Core 2 Solo CPUs, Linux, Vista, or Windows 7 OSs, up to 2GB of SD-RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. The starting price of o ...

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XP downgrade lawsuit thrown out, MS lawyers celebrate rare victory

from engadget - 1 week, 2 days ago

It's hard to imagine a more busy team of lawyers than those on-staff at Microsoft, and while the news isn't always good for them, today they can hold their heads high as a lawsuit filed last year alleging that MS was profiting from so-called "downgrade fees" has finally been dismissed. US Distr ...

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HP EliteBook 2740p Tablet Graduates to Capacitive Multitouch Display [Tablets]

from gizmodo - 1 week, 3 days ago

The HP EliteBook 2730p was a tough little convertible tablet, and its successor— HP's ...

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Palm's webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones

from engadget - 1 week, 5 days ago

No leaks or release date rumors this time, a mere 39mb download is all that separates your Pre from video recording, enhanced message notifications and much-desired performance and battery life improvements. Check out Palm's trailer for the new features and the full webOS 1.4 changelog after the break, after queueing up the download of course.

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Microsoft Wins Windows XP Downgrade Lawsuit

from slashdot - 1 week, 5 days ago

A federal judge has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the 'downgrade' rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. The order put an end to the lawsuit filed by Emma Alvarado in February 2009. In her original complaint, she accused Microsoft of coercing computer makers into forcing consumers who wanted to run Windows XP to first buy Windows Vista, or later, Windows 7, before they were allowed to downgrade to XP. The judge rejected Alvarado's accusations, saying that the plaintiff had not proved Microsoft benefited from the downgrade practices that it created and that OEMs implemented."

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