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Laptop makers at CES highlight move to flash

News The cutting-edge 4-gigabit chips of 2005, for example, will soon be dethroned by 8-gigabit chips. A few years ago, NAND was produced on trailing-edge manufacturing lines. Now manufacturers are putting it on their cutting-edge processes.

5 January 2006, 8:21

Get set for a summer of Apple

News This is also a market where design has been essential from the beginning, potentially dulling Apple's usual competitive edge. Apple's reputation in both the MP3 and PC markets has been made on cutting-edge design, but competing on design with some...

11 June 2007, 10:10

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News Also, five hours of talk time seems a trifle short when compared with the humble Sony Ericsson W810i, another phone that, in the US, uses Cingular's EDGE network and claims "up to nine hours" of talk time and "up to 30 hours of music playing".

11 January 2007, 11:21

Extensions promised for Chrome

News One of Firefox's initial claims to fame is the fact that the browser can be extended with a multitude of plug-ins, and even though Microsoft caught up with Internet Explorer, Firefox still has an extension edge over Google's new Chrome Web browser.

Tags: extensions, firefox, advertisements, chrome

4 September 2008, 10:14

Orange bundles sat-nav services

News Once the application is installed, maps can be downloaded via Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS or EDGE, although all but the first of those options will involve a data charge. Orange Business Services has started bundling satellite-navigation services with some of...

2 November 2006, 9:43

Fujitsu laptops get mobile broadband

News Following an agreement with Orange, Fujitsu Siemens has begun producing laptops in the Lifebook 'E' range with built-in 3G/EDGE datacards. They will allow users to connect to the Internet at high speeds over 3G and EDGE mobile networks, without...

24 January 2007, 9:39

Photos: Intel shows off future tech

News Eventually, the designers plan to attach the arm to a Segway, making it mobile.Company researchers demonstrated this and other cutting-edge research from their labs on Wednesday during Research@Intel Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain...

Tags: hand, handle, research, production

16 June 2008, 9:23

BitTorrent enemies face new hurdle

News Antipiracy operatives have lost an edge over illegal downloaders of movies and software, thanks to a new feature in file distribution program BitTorrent. BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has eliminated the need for Web site hosting of centralised...

23 May 2005, 9:36

AMD edges Intel in early dual-core benchmarks

News Both Anandtech and Tom's Hardware -- two hardware benchmarking sites -- have published reports stating that, in their own tests, the dual-core Athlon 64 X2 chips generally edge out the Intel Pentium D and the dual-core Pentium 4 Extreme Edition...

2 June 2005, 8:39

News.blog: Unimpressed with Blu-ray and HD DVD players

News Amid the glitz and ultra-cutting edge high-tech gadgets spread over what seemed like the 20 or 30 square miles of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, if you wanted to find a 1980s-era VCR, there were two places to look: the Blu-ray and HD...

10 January 2006, 10:51

Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance

News A sort of media center 2.0, New Frontier on Main is geared toward filmmaking and art from the cutting edge of cinematic culture. In addition to art installations, it hosts panel discussions on topics like Hollywood adapting to the Web and the...

Tags: artist, gallery, led, wall

22 January 2008, 9:16

Google mapper advises: take browsers to the limit

News The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding-edge features in browser software. This advice came from the lead engineer of the Google Maps project, Lars Rasmussen.

29 July 2005, 9:47

Photos: Ripping up the robot guitar

News At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, there's a tradition of doing a teardown, or a dismantling, of one of the latest cutting-edge gadgets. While Tuesday's teardown was scheduled to open up Sony's OLED TV, travel difficulties...

Tags: self, networks, embedded, board

17 April 2008, 9:17

Dell opens a design centre in Singapore

News The opening of the design centre, announced on Thursday, marks the latest example of U.S.technology companies performing higher-level tasks abroad -- a trend that raises concerns about the United States losing its edge in technology.

4 May 2005, 8:42

Intel wants 3G in every laptop

News Intel and the GSMA announced the initiative on Tuesday and will be publishing guidelines for laptop manufacturers to encourage them to integrate modems capable of picking up various networks, including 3G, HSDPA or EDGE in their products.

15 February 2006, 10:33