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Light up with Sony Vaio S Series

The Sony Vaio S series notebook knows when to turn it on – its backlight, that is. Its keyboard has sensors that can detect how bright the surrounding is, so it automatically turns on the backlight in dark placces such as airplane cabins. The 13.3-inch LCD screen of the laptop is also LED backlit. Another nifty [...]
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Pocket with Fujitsu LifeBook UH900

It will be hard to resist pocketing the Fujitsu LifeBook UH900, mostly because it fits right in a jacket pocket. At 20.4 cm by 10.65 cm, it is barely bigger than a long wallet but packs in more than it 500g heft in smarts. The Windows 7 machine runs on the Intel Atom Z530 processor and [...]
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Bootleg Windows 7 Sold in China

At shops in the bustling Xinyang market in Shanghai, fake Apple iPhones and Bose speakers were displayed alongside bootleg copies of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, a week before it was to go on sale offcially. “Which version do you want? Ultimate? Normal? English or Chinese?” one shopkeeper asked, proudly pointing out her ample supply of [...]
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Slight drop in global PC shipments

Research firm Gartner said that global PC shipments will suffer only a 2 percent decline from last year, which is more optimistic than its June forecast which anticipated a 6 percent drop. As the world economy moves out of the financial crisis, PC shipments are returning to stronger growth. In Asia-Pacific, PC shipments in total will [...]
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