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Ever since Steve Jobs stepped on stage last year, rumors have been flying furiously about his health. Many websites and analysts talked about Jobs' appearance looking ill and even went as far as claiming that Jobs was dying.

Apple's new 17-inch MacBook Pro is the thinnest and lightest in the world and sports an eight-hour battery life -- and that'll be its battery for life.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. However, Freescale Semiconductor's upcoming i.MX515 processor, based on the ARM chip architecture, should defy that belief, offering 1GHz speeds for under $200.

Lenovo unveiled today three new IdeaPad laptops, along with its very first all-in-one desktop, the IdeaCenter A600

Ready for a richer user experience in your living-room? Looks like Intel and Adobe are going to be working together to bring consumers Flash based interfaces coupled with the Intel CE 3100 Media Processor.

It looks like the news of restructuring and reorganizing isn’t restricted to Microsoft or Lenovo. Reports say that Dell has adjusted its divisions to focus on who they’re selling to rather than where the customers are.

A weakened Flash memory market is expected to be hit hard by dropping sales figures and growth rates for consumer devices in 2009. And don’t expect solid-state drives to save the day.

Back in December of 2008 we brought you news of G.Skill releasing its 2,000 MHz triple channel DDR3 kits for Intel's Core i7 platform. At the time, those kits that were rated for CL9 and CL8 respectively.

2008 was fraught with news about layoffs, cutbacks and corporate restructuring. The current economic crisis means companies are desperate to save the pennies in any way they can and it looks like 2009 is off to a similar start.

A security researcher discovered an "alleged vulnerability" involving Windows Media Player, however Microsoft claims that there is no possibility for harmful code execution.

And the coolest part? You can switch between the seven supported RAID modes with a simple hardware switch. Take that, bulky RAID configuration screens!

There's no doubt that SSD drives are improving day to day. One major area that SSD manufacturers are focusing on is drive capacity.

Acer definitely wins the prize for being first out the gate with a machine running Intel’s latest addition to its processor line up, the ultra cheap quad core Q9000. However, now that it’s all official and out in the open...

The netbook market what it is today, it’s no real surprise to hear companies are working on a chip in the hopes of grabbing some of the market share currently dominated by Intel’s Atom processor.

HP is reportedly in talks with Intel regarding the restrictions in place on the Atom processor.

With the price of SSD storage continuously dropping, it’s not surprising to see some ultra cheap SSDs hitting the market in time to take advantage of the current penny pinching economy.

MSI has announced a netbook with hybrid storage, something that could set it apart from the market competition.

During a recession people resign themselves to the fact that they’re going to have to cut down on some luxuries -- and more often than not, gadgets and hardware often find themselves a place on the list of items people can’t afford to buy...

Companies file patents for all kinds of crazy things, but it’s rare we see something that makes us stop and say to ourselves, “Really, that? Really?”

Details of the recent layoffs and financial restructuring of Advanced Micro Devices’ are laid bare in a recent SEC filing. The filing shows the company laid off 600 people, 100 more than the initial figure of 500 a company spokesperson announced...