News reports suggest that Sony has managed to secure a temporary ban on a hardware hack which has been developed and sold in Australia. (more…)

Internet booksellers Amazon have announced that they will be launching a UK version of their own-brand e-reader, the Kindle, specifically for the British market. The new reader will feature an enhanced selection of texts for download, and will be available for purchase from the amazon.co.uk site. (more…)

In the early days of the eBook reader wars Kindle appears to have the advantage. Its catchier name and cannier marketing have helped it win the vital race to household name status. As a result, few people are even aware that there is an alternative.
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Apple’s price cuts stand in stark contrast to their public statements on the subject of netbooks. The company recently reacted angrily to suggestions that they were developing an Apple netbook. Rather ironically, for a company so skilled at manipulating the media through controlled leaks, they hit out at the culture of rumour mongering on the various Apple-following blogs and stated that Apple have no idea how to make a computer below $500 dollars “That’s not a piece of junk.”
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The impact on the laptop business has been clear. In February, Windows based laptops fell in average price by a whopping 22 percent to $560 dollars a time. As well as demonstrating quite how worried the laptop makers are, this also shows something about the profit margins that they’ve been operating at up until now, that they can just slash their prices so quickly.
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The word ‘revolution’ gets overused in blogs like this – a product starts selling well and suddenly it’s the Adwords revolution, or the SmartPhone revolution across the blogosphere. In the case of netbooks however, it might just be appropriate, not only because they’re flying off the shelves but because their bargain basement prices have changed the laptop game, forcing laptop manufacturers to strongly consider sacrificing their profit margins in order to compete.
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Whilst financial analysts predict that the recession will get worse before it gets better the computer hardware sector has some reason to be cautiously optimistic. IDC have updated their PC shipping forecasts for the next two years and the new predictions indicate that whilst they are expecting shipments to continue to fall over 2009 a gradual upturn is expected in 2010.
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Reason 4: It has a new screen!

The new Kindle screen is supposed to make the text clearer. In reality however, it’s kind of just several shades of grey. It is better than the former version’s black and white display but it’s hard to get too excited about it.
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Kindle, the new ebook reader from Amazon is being promoted hard by its manufacturers, particularly as a business tool though to me the main reasons being given don’t quite seem to add up. See what you think…
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IBM is poised to announce that it will be constructing the world’s fastest supercomputer for the US Department of Energy. The machine, named Sequoia, will be the fastest supercomputer ever built and will significantly outperform the current holder of that title, roadrunner – also built by IBM.

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In a market where most products are understandably struggling to sell, Blu-Ray has been thriving. The video format that is being touted as the eventual successor to DVD, tripled its sales over the Christmas period as compared with last year. The figures were released at the CES, an event that’s proving to be good luck for Blu-Ray – Last year, just before it, Warner Bros withdrew their support for HD-DVD, all but killing the competing format off.
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We wrote earlier in the week about the revolution in netbooks brought on by the harsh economic times and predicted that the big names would soon be bringing out netbooks in order to satisfy this new demand. Well, anyone who doubts that the TCM team know what they’re talking about should check out the Vaio website today. If you do, you’ll find a load of information on brand new Vaio netbook, the Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC.

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The recession hasn’t been bad for everyone. Makers of Netbooks, the new range of dirt cheap laptops have been raking in the money as people jump at the chance to own a compact and perfectly decent computer for between $300 and $500 dollars.

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Lenovo are to release the world’s first dual-screen laptop computer. The machine boasts both a 17 inch main screen and a slide out display, the idea is to duplicate the benefits of a dual screen desktop PC in a laptop.
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