Samsung’s latest Android-based device – the Galaxy S, which was released in the US on AT&T and on T-Mobile, has proved a big success and is doing superb business in the US. The Galaxy S smartphone has already made its mark at global level and it seems that the smartphone is poised for similar success
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Oooh, what have we here? Just a little later after a September 1 Apple “special event” is announced (we learned via Engadget, as always), we also discover some of these leaks.
Apple will hold a "special event" on September 1
Leak number 1
Early July, Taiwanese site Apple.pro posted up some shots of appears to be a
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Commodore USA, makers of the ubiquitous Commodore 64 — or lovingly “C64” to nerdies (like most of the people here at MacPCWiz are) — seem set to release a portable PC set to emulate the “bread box” aesthetics of its famous ancestor. The Commodore PC64 is touted to be an “exact replica”, thereby increasing its
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Move over “geohot“, it seems like somebody beat you to the punch. The Sony PlayStation 3, in the haXX0r (hacker to you uninitiated to l33t language) point of view, is the closest thing to “impregnable” that the world has seen so far. Not anymore, it seems. Looky here:
Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip
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This one totally caught us off-guard — proc manufacturing giant Intel acquires software threat industry leader McAfee. Though it looks on paper a good purchase for Intel, we still don’t see the logic here. But Engadget reports:
Well, we got our copy of McAfee Antivirus for $29, but it looks like Intel had something a little
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Console gaming — heck, technology in general — is anything but stagnant. It is an industry in a constant state of flux. And so we are not surprised that with the new models of Sony‘s flagship game console the PlayStation 3 (PS3) ready to ship very soon, that they seem ready to phase out these
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12 cores.
You read it right. Up to 12 burning CPU cores on the newest Apple Mac Pro, overhauled from last year. The Mac Pro has been longing for a refresh worthy of its title — the monster performer of the Mac line. As we can see, Apple has just updated its most powerful piece of
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Most people — including us — are peeved at the fact that laptop batteries have so short a lifespan, no laptop manufacturer is willing to place a warranty on them longer than 1 year. We have wondered when this would change — well, look no further than the SONATA branded batteries from Boston-Power. According to
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It had to happen sooner or later, but Canadian company TELUS seems to have gotten the jump on everybody. We’ve said that game consoles were taking over living rooms all over America, and it seems TELUS is taking it one step further – Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles as replacements for IPTV set top boxes.
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As the new champions of cloud computing, Google introduced Google Wave — a mash-up of instant messaging, collaborative tools, and document sharing. It was hyped as a better way of working, chatting, and collaborating in the cloud workplace.
Announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service designed to merge
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