Software developers who want to come up with their own software for Microsoft’s touch-based Surface technology can now do so for free, as the Microsoft Surface SDK is now free for all at the Microsoft Download Center.

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Just as we told you a few days ago, Google has decided to unveil its own computer operating system this year. Although we were expecting it to arrive at some point in 2010, Google execs must have realized that now’s the time to make Google OS official.
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We’ve shown you the MSI Wind Top AE2220 a while ago and now we’re happy to tell you that the all-in-one computer is official. MSI has announced the U.S. availability of the Wind Top AE2220 and today you can have one with prices starting at $749.99.
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Retailers have a way with leaking Black Friday ads these days that makes us wonder if they don’t do it on-purpose. Adding to the whole bunch of Black Friday Deals, the folks from Target have managed to “lose” some documents with a Westinghouse 32-inch LCD that will sell for just $246 (currently selling at $429.99).

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Those in the market for a new computer monitor should know that Samsung has just released a new model for the Korean market. Dubbed Samsung SyncMaster P2770HD, the 27-inch panel not only features an 1080p Full HD resolution it also doubles as a HDTV (with a HDMI input) and allows you to watch your favorite TV programs as it has a built-in TV tuner.

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About two months ago LG Electronics has announced that their 15-inch OLED HDTV is going to see daylight in November, this year. They kept their promise and today we just caught wind that the super slim OLED TV — a yet to be named model — is actually going to be released in Korea later this week for a hefty $2,500.

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It’s not every day that we take a look at business computers but it’s not every day that Lenovo announces new machines made for the employees of your company. The ThinkCentre A70z and the ThinkCentre A58e are an all-in-one computer and a tower desktop, respectively, and although not impressive in specs, will certainly get the job done at the office.
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It looks like the big hype with Windows 7 is that it offers great multi-touch capabilities, hence why we see more and more multitouch-capable LCD monitors these days. Another addition to the market is the new Acer T230H, a 23-inch Full HD display (16:9, 1920 x 1080 resolution) that brags to recognize one- and two-finger gestures, such as pinch-zoom and chiral-rotate.

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All-in-one PCs are today’s big hype with companies like MSI, Dell, Acer or Lenovo introducing better and better products that will gain them market share. Speaking of Lenovo, the company has recently shrouded in mystery a sleek unnamed business class AIO computer for their ThinkCentre Series.

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Samsung is once again making the rounds online by announcing the slimmest HDTV in the 40-inch category. Comparable with Sony’s XEL-1 OLED or Panasonic’s Neo Eco PDP TVs, the new Samsung Needle Slim is a 3mm thick (that’s just over a tenth of an inch) Full HD LED Backlight TV that features a 120Hz LCD panel and a 5000:1 contrast ratio.

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Dell has a brand new ultraslim laptop, the Dell Adamo XPS. We showed you the first pictures of the laptop a couple of weeks ago and now we have a pretty good idea of what’s inside the machine. Don’t get too excited yet folks! Dell hasn’t specified yet when the Adamo XPS will be available so you might be in for a long wait.
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Read the rest of Dell Adamo XPS Features & Specs Get Leaked [Intel ULV Processors, LED-backlit WXGA screen, Integrated Graphics, 4GB RAM, 180GB SSD & Windows 7 Inside]

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If you were to choose between paying for a computer operating system and getting it for free on condition that you have to sit through various advertisements all day long, what would you get? Apple seems to be interested in developing such an OS as the Cupertino-based company has filed for a free ad-supported OS patent.
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Microsoft has been quietly setting up its online store and starting today you will be able to purchase hardware and software solutions straight from Redmond’s online store. I think it was about time that Microsoft to stood up from the crowd and started selling stuff from its own online store. After all, Apple has been doing it for a while and the concept works very well in their favor.
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Computers manufacturers must really be aware of how much we don’t like Windows Vista. That’s why they are announcing all sorts of new desktops, all-in-ones, touchscreen displays, laptops, netbooks and tablets these days. We want new computers and we definitely want to try a stable OS. And if Apple computers are out of the question then Windows 7 is the way to go.
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Read the rest of Lenovo IdeaPad U150 Netbook Gets Official [11.6" IdeaPad U150 Touts Windows 7, Intel Core 2 Duo CULV CPU]

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Remember Dells’s SX2210T multitouch touchscreen monitor, Well it looks like they’re  not the only ones to take advantage of tomorrow’s debut of Windows 7. Joining the bandwagon, there’s HP who have just announced their new 21-inch Compaq L2105tm 1080p panel that boasts an optical sensor to “read” two-point touch input coming from either the dedicated hard stylus or your fingers.

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After seeing Streak,the company’s 5-inch Android MID, it’s quite obvious that it’s Dell-day today, as the Texas-based company has unveiled their first touchscreen monitor. Dubbed Dell SX2210T, the new 21.5-inch 1080p panel adds support for touch control and thanks to the optical touch technology it manages +/- 2.5mm accuracy over 95-percent of the surface, no matter if you’re using your fingers or a stylus — although I’m pretty sure they didn’t test it with my fingers.

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There’s a new Mac Mini in town, and although it’s an impressive desktop solution, I’ll go right ahead and say that it can’t impress me more than the new white MacBook or the new iMacs did. But Apple hasn’t ignored the Minis and these tiny computers have also been properly updated.
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As expected Apple has completely redesigned the white 13.3-inch white MacBook while keeping the same price. For $999 you will be able to get an unibody plastic MacBook which still packs a powerpunch under the hood. In case you love the aluminum versions then go ahead and get them although this 13.3-inch tiny beast looks better than ever and comes with a price worth taking advantage of right now.
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Well what do you know, Apple has refreshed the website and the new products are ready to be inspected. Let’s start everything off with the new iMac line then!
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It’s always a good idea to check out Apple’s website on a daily basis especially when you know that an update its coming. And we’ve heard for quite a while that a lineup refresh is going to hit us soon.
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Read the rest of Apple Store Alert: Website is Down [Updated MacBooks, iMacs, Mac Minis, Time Capsules, New Mice and the Holy Spirit About to be Unveiled]

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After we’ve seen that new 40-inch HDTV from Bang & Olufsen, it’s now time to take a look at Lenovo’s new eco-friendly ThinkVision LCD monitors which are more affordable although not as impressive.
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AMD has decided to come clean with its newest graphic cards line. The ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series has been officially announced and you’ll find the HD 5770 and HD 5750 cards in stores very soon.
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Seven months after being announced for Korean customers, Samsung’s 22-inch LD220G and 19-inch LD190N laptop monitors have found a way to reach the US borders. Part of the LapFit LCD line-up, both the LD220G and the LD190N look much like a giant digital frame (not that you wouldn’t be able to use them for that) and are meant for use exclusively with notebooks.

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Are you excited about the imminent Apple desktop refresh? Well you should be considering recent rumors regarding some of Apple’s upcoming desktops. Today we’re looking at the Xeon Mac Pro which is rumored to arrive in 2010 with a lot of interesting specs. The price, of course, hasn’t been leaked yet.
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Having already offered you a heads up today concerning two other, new HP products, namely the new HP ProBook 6445b and ProBook 6545b notebooks and the HP Touchsmart 300 and TouchSmart 600 PCs, HP have also unveiled one of the largest ever multitouch capable LCD displays in the form of the 42” HP LD4200tm.
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Samsung have just confirmed that their ‘premium’ SyncMaster XL2370 Full HD LED monitor, which is ideally suited to gaming not least due to boasting a response time of just 2ms and which, incidentally, hit the Japanese market back in August, is now, at last, gaining a wider roll out.
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Although it’s late night in Europe and evening in the US, but that didn’t stop Sony from taking the wraps off of their new Vaio L touchscreen series, a new line of all-in-one PCs with built-in 24-inch widescreen LCDs with Multiple Lamp Technology

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Apple’s MacBook Air is not the thinnest of them all anymore ladies and gentlemen. There’s a new thinner laptop ready to enter your life, the Dell Adamo XPS. But do we really want to pay a premium price for a laptop that’s riding on Microsoft’s Windows OS? Wouldn’t we be way better off with a slim laptop running Mac OS X?
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The year of the tablet is upon us! Earth will be flooded by tablets in 2010 and LBook doesn’t want to miss out on the action. The company, previously used to selling eBook devices is going to launch the T9 tablet in March 2010 for $350.
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It’s not a secret that Apple has scheduled a refresh for both its desktop and laptop line. Later this fall we’re going to see new iMacs, Mac minis and MacBooks appear in Apple Stores around the world. But I guess that Apple never intended to reveal details about these new machines ahead of time, and especially not through Google AdSense ads.
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Read the rest of Apple to Launch New iMacs, Mac minis & MacBooks [Pricing Revealed in Google AdSense Ads Delivered in the Netherlands]

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Philips have introduced their newest eco-friendly widescreen monitor in the form of the 22” Philips Brilliance 225P1ES which, thanks to boasting PowerSensor technology, is capable, according to Philips, of cutting power consumption by up to 70% when compared with similar specified displays.
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From hybrid engines and electric vehicles to eco-friendly mobile phones or energy saving light bulbs, it’s a fact that green technology becomes more and more popular. With that in mind and appealing to the green-minded user base, the folks from NEC have just added to their energy efficient LCD monitors lineup with three new models dubbed NEC AS191, AS191WM and AS221WM.

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Read the rest of NEC AS191, AS191WM, and AS221WM Desktop LCDs [NEC Debuts Energy Efficient AS191, AS191WM & AS221WM Monitors]

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Sometimes it’s hard to buy a powerful rig to suit your needs because you’ll have to buy the components separately and assemble everything together yourself. But now that Dell have just introduced the new Vostro 430 Mini Tower desktop computers, things are about changed.

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Sub monitors that facilitate a convenient extra display courtesy of USB connectivity are increasingly cropping up these days and along with the previously featured MIMO UM-710 & UM-740, Century Plus One LCD-8000U and the Samsung Syncmaster U701 (to name but three) DoubleSight Displays have added to your range of consumer options thanks to the release of their new range of USB sub monitors – namely the 7” DS-70U, 9” DS-90U and 9” DS-90U which also packs in an integrated webcam.
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Read the rest of DoubleSight Displays USB Sub Monitors Released [7” DS-70U, 9” DS-90U & 9” DS-90U with Webcam]

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We’ve just seen one of HP’s upcoming laptops, the Pavilion dv3, which will be one of the lucky few laptops capable of offering a touchscreen display with Windows 7 running in the background. It’s only to take a look at the competition’s future plans. Apple tablet is a certainty right now but we have so little information about it. The ultraportable tablet should arrive on January 19, 2010 according to the latest rumors so let’s see what we know about it so far!

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HP is ready to offer us a genuine Windows 7 experience and we should expect a lot of HP’s future laptops and desktops. While nothing is official just yet, it looks like someone managed to leak out the HP Winter 2009/2010 consumer catalog. In it lies the Pavilion dv3, an upcoming laptop which seems ready to bring HP’s TouchSmart technology to your lap.
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Usually you can count on Dell for some sort of a fanfare when releasing new products but not so when it comes to their latest ST Series monitors, the 21.5″ ST2210 and the 23″ ST2310, which follow on from the just released U2410 and ST2410 displays which could account for why these have slipped out without as much as a whisper.
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What? You didn’t hear about it either? In a move characteristically uncharacteristic of Dell, the computer giant decided to launch two new 24-in full-HD widescreen LCD displays into the US market and it seems to have taken place while most of us were sleeping. The two monitors, the UltraSharp U2410 and its less feature-rich cousin the ST2410, offer up a couple of interesting items of note, but as a whole aren’t much to get all that excited about. (...)
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There are a couple of options in the market today that give you the ability to add multiple displays to your PC. As many of you can attest, the configuration of systems like this can often be a true measure of one’s patience and can often leave you feeling a little less than completely satisfied. At a press conference yesterday, AMD demonstrated one of the core features of its next-generation graphics processors and what it believes to be the next step in multi-monitor configuration, EyeFinity. (...)
Read the rest of AMD EyeFinity Multi-Monitor System [New Feature of Radeon HD 5800 Chipset, One Card Up to Six DisplayPort Outputs, Huge 8192x8192 Resolution]

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When it comes to getting accurate color representation from your computer’s display, it’s a safe bet to say that most people haven’t a clue. This type of anal-retentive behavior is most often the stuff that professional photographers and graphic designers are paid to worry about not your average Joe with a point-and-shoot in his fanny pack. But let’s be honest, when you take a picture, no matter who you are, you want your leaves to be green and your sunsets to be orange when you check them out on your monitor at home and when you go to print them out. The color obsessives at Datacolor have just brought monitor calibration to the masses with their latest product, the Spyder3Express Monitor Calibration System. (...)
Read the rest of Datacolor Spyder3Express Monitor Calibration System [Get Accurate Colors on Your Monitor, Automated Calibration, Intuitive UI, Mac & PC Compatibility]

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