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Western Digital ships speedy 2TB hard drive - Sep 2, 2009

Crave The WD RE4 drive After releasing relatively low-performance 2TB hard drives a few months back, Western Digital is now shipping high-performance versions of these top-capacity drives. The new drives are ... Read story »

Video: Of Maemo 5 and the N900 - Sep 3, 2009

Crave STUTTGART, GERMANY--Don't mistake the N900 for just another smartphone. It may share similar features with the N97 such as the 3.5-inch touchscreen, 32GB onboard memory, 5-megapixel camera and 3G functionality, but ... Read story »

Analyst: Smartphones will surpass global PC in sales by 2011 - Sep 8, 2009

Crave Smartphones will surpass global PCs in sales by the end of 2011, another milestone in the development of more portable computing. RBC analyst Mike Abramsky estimates that shipments of both devices ... Read story »

Western Digital My Book external HDDs get more secure - Sep 11, 2009

Crave Another day, another external hard drive. I thought by now, storage vendors had exhausted ideas for new external hard drives. I was wrong. Western Digital announced its new and refreshed lines ... Read story »

iTwin USB enables remote file access via the Internet - Sep 22, 2009

Crave Here's a nifty two-piece USB hardware showcased by a Singapore startup at the recent TechCrunch50 event in San Francisco. What it does is it lets you access files on two ... Read story »

Google launches Gmail push for iPhone and Windows Mobile - Sep 23, 2009

Crave Some of you who have been restlessly awaiting the arrival of Google's official Gmail push solution for mobile phones can relax now. On Tuesday, Google expanded the over-the-air syncing capabilities ... Read story »

TomTom Start entry-level GPS goes back to basics - Oct 7, 2009

Crave The TomTom Start will be customizable, inexpensive, and unavailable in the US. The Start is TomTom's newest entry-level car navigation device for the European market. Featuring a smallish 3.5-inch color ... Read story »

Windows 7 boots slower than Vista? - Oct 8, 2009

Crave Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions of Windows, one software company says that, in many cases, the new operating system can take ... Read story »

Zuosa: Where China tweets - Oct 9, 2009

Blogs The Chinese microblogging site Zuosa (做啥/zuò shá) is where China "tweets", rather than on Twitter itself which lacks foreign-language versions of its site.Zuosa started in its current guise in 2007, and ... Read story »

Yukyung Tech releases Intel's Classmate PC as Viliv Duo in Korea - Oct 18, 2009

Blogs Korea-based Yukyung Technology is known as one of the top MID (mobile Internet device) makers across the world. It has released Viliv S5, S7 and X70 and recently added the S10, ... Read story »

How to get your free Windows 7 upgrade - Oct 26, 2009

Crave Now that we're past the official release of Windows 7, most new PCs should come with it preinstalled. But if you purchased a new computer with Windows Vista recently, or for ... Read story »

Xerox looking to print computing smarts on fabric and plastic - Oct 27, 2009

Crave And you thought computer chips were pervasive now. Xerox's process can print fine details of electronic circuitry on flexible plastic. In conjunction with a conference in Europe this week, Xerox ... Read story »

Could Google be working on a free real-time navigation service? - Oct 28, 2009

Crave According to a recent Forbes report, mapping service providers suspect that Google may be working on a free turn-by-turn navigation service. Editors' note: Shortly after we posted this article, Google ... Read story »

Atheros 802.11n mobile chip is faster yet uses less power - Nov 3, 2009

Crave The new AR6003 mobile WLAN chip is the smallest WLAN currently on the market. Your mobile devices' wireless LAN is about to get significantly better. Atheros, a mobile Wireless LAN ... Read story »

Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone gets My Maps feature - Nov 18, 2009

Crave This is a map I saved online from my desktop. Google Earth made a splash when it spun onto the iPhone last October, giving users the capability to explore the ... Read story »

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