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Every once in a while, a technology company will develop a product outside of its traditional product line, just to meet consumer demands. (For an example, see Intel’s Dual-Core Pentium chip.)

So it is with the new Toshiba Satellite E105, which, at least appearance-wise, sticks out …

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Toshiba's Atom-powered mini-notebook at Ceatec.

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CHIBA, Japan–Toshiba hopped onto the Netbook bandwagon here at Ceatec, announcing the NB110.

Design-wise, there’s nothing too remarkable about it. It resembles an Eee PC, with specs a mix amidst that and the HP Mini-Note: Intel Atom …

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The new WD ShareSpace NAS server.

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Western Digital (WD), introduced on Tuesday its all-new NAS server called ShareSpace. The server somewhat resembles the design of the company’s My Book external hard drives with easily accessible drive bays, eco-friendly hard drives, and quiet performance.

The new NAS

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The new AMD Radeon HD 4550 is only $50.

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AMD debuted two new budget 3D cards today, bringing the same core design from its flagship ATI Radeon HD 4800 series to the $50 and $40 price points. The $50 Radeon HD 4550 features 512MB of DDR3 video memory, …

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Two weeks after announcing two new high-speed solid-state drives (SSD), Super Talent Technology on Tuesday announced it will release the MasterDrive LX as a budget solid-state drive later that week.

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In a brief statement last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin announced the FCC will try to complete its review of two major wireless mergers by the end of the year. The goal, Martin said, is to reach a decision before a new president takes office in January.

The deals are Sprint’s proposed purchase of a 51 percent stake in a reconstituted Clearwire, and Verizon’s planned $28 billion purchase of Alltel. whether approved, the Alltel merger would manufacture Verizon the largest U.S. cellular carrier with roughly 80 million subscribers, versus AT&T’s 71.4 million.

According to Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group, the FCC’s push to resolve the mergers has more to do with the marketplace than politics.

“I could understand why there would be some eagerness,” Rubin said, “since that is a launch of a new generation of wireless connectivity that can bring broadband to nearly [...]

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RealNetworks is feeling heat from the movie studios involving its just-released RealDVD software, and is firing back with a lawsuit.

RealDVD lets consumers store, manage and play DVDs on computers. Think of it as a DVD backup, since the software does not let users distribute copies of DVDs.

“RealDVD not only maintains the DVD’s native CSS encryption intact, it plus adds another layer of digital-rights-management encryption that effectively locks the DVD copy to the owner’s computer to ensure that the subject matter cannot be improperly copied or shared,” the company said. “RealDVD provides consumers with a great solution for the playback and management of their DVD collections while adding safety measure that is more robust than CSS.”

Hollywood Objects

That’s how RealNetworks sees it. But Hollywood seems to have a different take. The company says the “major movie studios” have made threats, and RealNetworks has filed for a declaratory [...]

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