Sony Debuts Snazzy New Touchscreen E-readers

From PC World: Leave it to Sony to throw a new twist into the e-reader game: The company's refreshed lineup of e-readers and new touchscreen technology ups the ante over its competition. The E-Ink e-reader has just gotten way more interesting.

All three of Sony's new models use the...

Power your party with new Logitech portable speakers

From CNET News.com: Logitech on Wednesday adds two new additions to its line of portable speakers: the Laptop Speaker Z305 and the Wireless Speaker Z515. These portable audio solutions are the ideal way to add a soundtrack to your outdoor activities.

The $60 Logitech Laptop Speaker...

Report: Amazon working on streaming service

From CNET News.com: Amazon is talking to major media companies to create a new subscription service to deliver movies and TV shows over the Internet, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The service, which would be accessible via Web browser and devices such as Internet...

Dell shows off its new modular data center

From InfoWorld: Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hyperscale" customers, which include big Internet firms like Microsoft and Facebook.

The first modular data centers...

AMD Will Not Compete Against ARM System-on-Chip Devices

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has intentions to install its chips into slate-type personal computers going forward, but at the same time it has no plans to develop direct competitors to system-on-chips (SoCs) based on designs developed by ARM holdings, such as those that...

Toshiba Starts Mass Production of Flash Using 24nm Process Tech

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday started mass production of NAND flash memories fabricated with 24nm process technology. The new manufacturing process will be used to make low-cost 64Gb flash chips.

This latest technology advance has already been applied to 2bit-per-cell...

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller is Improved, Drops Slightly in Price

From DailyTech: Microsoft is eagerly eying ways to make its console business unit even more profitable. Yesterday, the company announced its decision to bump the yearly subscription fees for the various tiers of its Xbox Live Gold service.

Today Lawrence "Larry" Hyrb, Director of...

SanDisk Launches Sansa Fuze+ MP3 Player

From DailyTech: With all the hype surrounding Apple's impending launch of new iPods, it's sometimes easy to forget about some of the the key players in the MP3 player market. One of the big names we haven't heard from in a while is SanDisk, and they're debuting the new Sansa Fuze+...

Google rolls out email prioritizing feature in Gmail

From InfoWorld: Google plans to begin rolling out to Gmail users on Tuesday a new feature designed to automatically rearrange messages in their inbox so that the most important and pressing ones appear at the top.

Called Priority Inbox, the feature will be released with the beta, or...

Google Buys SocialDeck Mobile Game Firm

From PC World: Google shows no signs of stopping its social networking start-up shopping spree--it acquired social gaming service SocialDeck on Monday.

The acquisition was announced Monday via the SocialDeck blog.

SocialDeck is a social gaming company that makes games for various...

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