Xavier Lanier

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Sprint and Linksys to Offer EVDO/802.11g Router

All of you paying $59 per month for your notebook computer's Sprint EVDO cards will be able to create hotspots anywhere thanks to a Linksys router being launched later this year. With speed and coverage upgrades planned over the next...
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HP &Cingular to Offer Notebooks with Global 3G

HP will integrate Cingular’s BroadbandConnect into future HP business notebooks.HP is expected to be the first company to provide customers with global 3G capabilities when it expands its range of broadband wireless notebooks to integrate Cingular’s UMTS/HSDPA-based technology later this year.
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Boot Camp: Windows XP On Intel Macs

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system.
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26″ Rims+Laptop+WiFi+SUV=PimpStar

Usually we wouldn’t post something like this, but this is the true definition of “mobile technology,” and there’s a notebook involved. PimpStar rims use 6 LED’s per wheel to display any photo, logo or message.
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One Laptop Per Child Specs Released

Someday soon underprivileged children will carry super efficient laptops with a 500 MHz AMD processor, 128 MB of RAM, 512 MB Flash Drive and a dual-mode LCD, running at 640×480 in color mode and 1110×830 in black and...
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AlphaGrips Video Demo: VideoGame Controller Like Keybord at 50 WPM

Here are a couple of video demos of AlphaGrips plugged into laptop computers. This thing is like a XBOX controller on steroids and has all the functionality of a full sized keyboard. Wouldn’t it be nice of crackberry’s...
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Dell Kills 90 Day Warranties

Dell has scuttled its 90-day warranties on notebook computers, improving protection on all notebooks to one year or more. . Consumer-grade Inspirons had been subject to the lackluster 90-day warranties for about a year, with an "extended" one year warranty...
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Intel Proposes ‘Affordable’ $400 Laptop for Developing Countries

Intel is throwing its weight behind a Laptop for developing countries called the “EduWise,” which will sell for $400. Intel’s Craig Barrett says MIT’s $100 notebook is just a gadget, and students in developing nations “need” more.
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Bad Ringtone

One noise you necer want to hear coming from another guy’s cell phone.
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Santa May Deliver Window’s Vista After All

Ok, so maybe everyone jumped the gun last week by saying Vista’s delayed release would hurt notebook computer sales this holiday season. According to the Inquirer and some OEM’s, Microsoft will ship Vista to manufacturers before Christmas, and boxed retail...
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Gateway’s New UltraPortable & New Intel Chip

Gateway is rolling out its first ultraportable notebook in three years and it's the first to use the Intel Centrino Ultra Low Voltage processor. There's no official word on the exact specs of the Centrino ULV, but we are expecting...
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Western Digital Passport Pocket Drives

Western Digital will start shipping a sleek pocket drive next week. The Passport Pocket’s are slim enough and the USB connectors are flexible enough to allow notebook users to plug in two of the drives at a time- with no...
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ToughBooks at 29,000 ft.

A team of 10 climbers, from seven countries and five faiths, will use Panasonic Toughbook notebook computers and rugged PDAs to receive weather updates and other critical information via satellite as they attempt to summit Mount Everest.
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Dell Announcing Business Notebooks w/Verizon and Cingular WAN

Dell is set to officially launch the Latitude D620 and D820 notebook computers today or tomorrow. The notebooks will have Intel Core Duo processors and feature WAN connectivity to Verizon and Cingular. Both versions come with widescreen displays.
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Thumb Drives With LCD and Cursor

The Royal EZVueUSB 2.0 flash drive has a scrollable window that displays the names of the files stored on the drive. The company also makes an SD reader with similar functionality and form factor.
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200GB Notebook Drive from Fujitsu

Fujitsu will ship a 200 GB notebook computer drive by the end of May, The new drive will operate at 4200 rpm, consumes 1.6w and be a great feature for notebooks destined to act as PVR’s.
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Fidelity Loses Laptop, Nearly 200,000 HP Employees’ Data

A Fidelity Investment notebook was stolen, putting 196,000 current and former HP employees’ names, social security numbers and dates of birth at risk.
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PayPal Launches Mobile Payment Service

PayPal Mobile launched a great service that allows users to make payments with their phones. There are a couple of other services that let you pay friends via SMS, but PayPal mobile has a few features that blow the others away.