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Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will launch a tiny new laptop starting in August, the company's belated entry into the growing but cutthroat "netbook" PC market. The new addition to its Vaio line of computers will cost about $500 in the U.S. and 60,000 yen ($630) in Japan when it goes on sale next
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Prior to 3D printing technology, prototype models were typically a very time consuming process. Draftsmen and modeling craftsman would create a 3D model out of wood, clay, polymers, resins or other materials to bring an architect’s or product designer’s drawings to a live mock
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Cool-er e-book reader ($250), from a British company called Interead, you have to sit up and take notice. It’s supposed to be just like the Amazon Kindle, but smaller, lighter, thinner and $110 less expensive. (The name Cool-er comes from “Cool E-book Reader.”) The Cool-er has enough
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The European Commission is reportedly set to levy what could be a record fine against Intel Corp. for violating antitrust rules. Reuters and others reported Monday that the Santa Clara-based chip giant (Nasdaq: INTC) will be told of the fine Wednesday. Intel has almost 6,000 empl
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The OS giant Microsoft has stopped its mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003 today - but that doesn’t necessarily mean anyone should be in a hurry to upgrade to Vista yet. The firm will continue to offer extended support packages on both products through to 8 April 2014, all
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Intel the Chip Manufacturing giantfired a showy but relatively limited price war salvo at rival Advanced Micro Devices over the weekend, slashing the tray prices for its top dual-core desktop processor by a third to under $200 and adjusting prices for six other desktop and server devices more modera
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