Flexicord cables take rattlesnake approach

Kiss your blistered fingers and headaches goodbye--tangled cords are a problem of the past as long as you use Flexicords. If you're someone who sets up and breaks down your television, home theater kit, laptop, or desktop computer, Flexicords' coiled design eliminates the need to measure exactly how much cable you'll need to hook up your gear.

The cables come curly and extend out up to 10ft, ensuring that you have just enough slack without any excess clutter.

Flexicord offers cables for just about any application, including USB, phono jacks, S-video, networking cables, and HDMI. Once extended, the coils retain their shape thanks to a thick pipe cleaner that bends alongside the cable itself.

Finally, each wire comes with its own "recoiling tool", aka an inanimate plastic rod that helps you coil it back up. Prices vary depending on size and maximum length, but generally cost around US$20, with the exception of the 10ft HDMI cable that goes for US$34.
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Office 14 screenshots find way to Web?

Various Microsoft enthusiast sites were buzzing about purported screenshots of Office 14, which is in early testing.

A Russian site, wzor.net, put up a bunch of screenshots of the individual products that make up the suite, as well as an about page and start menu that seem to show a whole lot of Office 14 products are on the way.
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pureSilicon Nitro Series: First 1TB SSD

Storage supplier pureSilicon recently announced its Nitro Series of solid-state drives, with a maximum capacity of one terabyte, in a 2.5-inch format.

The SSD is one of the most densely packed of its kind, with a storage density of 15.4GB per cubic centimetre. According to the company, this represents "at least three times greater [density] than any other SSD on the market". The drive measures 100.2 x 69.85 x 9.5mm.

So far, the typical SSD has been smaller in capacity, such as the 120GB SSD launched by SanDisk last week. That SSD costs around US$240. Another SanDisk drive of 240GB is available for US$478. PureSilicon has not said how much its 1TB drive will cost, saying only that it will be available in the third quarter of this year with "pricing to be determined".


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PC shipment growth drops to virtually zero in Q4

After several years of seemingly tireless 15 percent quarterly growth, the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008.

Overall PC shipments worldwide dropped 0.4 percent to 77.3 million units during the fourth quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker study released Wednesday. The results are more alarming for the embattled industry considering that the quarter--the worst in several years--wasn't helped out more by the holiday shopping season. There hasn't been an overall drop in shipments since the second quarter of 2001, after the last recession.

"We had projected growth of about 6.5 percent (for the fourth) quarter. To come in basically at zero shows how fast the market has deteriorated. We were just at 14 percent in third quarter," said Loren Loverde, PC market analyst for IDC.
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In the interim, who's leading Apple?

Steve Jobs' medical leave puts the spotlight back on the other members of Apple's executive ranks, in particular chief operating officer Tim Cook, financial chief Peter Oppenheimer, and marketing chief Phil Schiller.

Tim Cook

A one-time Compaq executive, Cook has run much of Apple's operations for some time. He also was the man tapped by the board when Jobs previously went on leave for cancer treatment.

Much of Cook's career has been spent handling manufacturing and procurement duties, although he took over responsibility for sales at Apple, before adding the COO title in 2005. In addition to his work at Compaq, Cook also spent 12 years at IBM, where he ran manufacturing and operations for a large chunk of Big Blue's PC business.
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