Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek

Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
he price of the Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) fell 50 percent from $530 to $266, while the quad-core Xeon X3230 (2.66GHz) saw an identical cut: from $530 [...]

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Apple’s Mac business outgrew the overall PC market in the U.S. by a significant margin in the first quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner released Wednesday.
Check out my colleague Erica Ogg’s post for the overall news, which has the PC market as a whole growing by 14.6 percent, but the U.S. market growing [...]

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MacBook Air hacked in 2 minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.
Before you run out and buy a MacBook Air you may want to read about Apple’s Safari browser security woes.
According to an article posted by InformationWeek , “ Mac OS X’s reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team [...]

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After bringing her laptop to Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” for repair, it was never to be seen again!
According to an article published on DailyTech, Raelyn Campbell brought her laptop into a Best Buy store in the D.C. area and gave it to the Geek Squad to fix a broken on/off switch. They then informed her [...]

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Toshiba’s new ultra-slim and lightweight Portégé R500 notebook has built-in 3G mobile broadband.
Toshiba plans to put a polite boot into Apple’s hyped Macbook Air with a new version of its Portégé R500 notebook featuring built-in 3G mobile broadband.
The Japanese manufacturer points out that its lightweight laptops are thinner, lighter and more capable than Steve Jobs’ [...]

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A spin-off from OLPC, Pixel Qi, is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops.
A laptop under US$100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.
A “spin-out” from OLPC, the [...]

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Lagos Analysis Corp. is contending in Nigerian court that OLPC’s XO laptop violates a patent it says it holds on “multilingual keyboards.”
The One Laptop Per Child program has been sued by a Nigerian company that claims the program’s low-cost personal computer violates its patents.
Lagos Analysis Corp. (Lancor) is contending in Nigerian court that OLPC’s XO [...]

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Already having laboured with one unwanted battery recall announcement in July, which saw some 10,000 faulty batteries called back from consumers, electronics giant Toshiba now finds itself squarely in the reliability spotlight again after issuing a second recall.
Specifically, Tokyo-based Toshiba Corporation has announced that the latest recall centres on batteries equipped within its Satellite A100, [...]

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The new iMacs, which will sport thinner aluminum casings, have displays measuring 20 inches and 24 inches and will cost $1,199 to $1,799, depending on their configurations, said Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs at a media event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
The cost of the 24-inch iMac has been dropped by $200, and Apple [...]

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