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Best Buy to Open Stores in the UK [Electronics Retail Giant to Launch Best Buy UK in 2010]

Chris Smith — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:55 +0000

If you happen to love gadgets and technology then you must have heard about Best Buy, a giant electronics retailer in the USA. Best Buy should sound like a familiar brand already, even if you’re not an American citizen yourself.
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Kid Wins Trial against Amazon [Receives $150,000 in Damages; Amazon Not to Remotely Wipe Books from Kindle Anymore]

Chris Smith — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:42:23 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle popular eBook reader had one major flaw. At anytime Amazon could delete stuff from any Kindle without previous notice. That doesn’t sound too good does it? There are folks that went ahead and quit using it after Amazon has remotely deleted purchased copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from thousands of Kindle devices. Unfortunately for Amazon, the wipe process has also managed to delete a certain homework from a kid’s Kindle together with his copy of 1984.
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Intel Atom N270 Gives Way To Atom N450 Pine View CPU [New Mainstay Netbook CPU Looming]

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:41:12 +0000

According to reports just surfacing, Intel are set to phase out their widely employed Atom N270 CPU – which is at the core of pretty much every netbook out their right now – with the release of its successor, the Intel Atom N450 (otherwise known as “Pine View”).

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Twitter Paid Pro Accounts Confirmed for Power Users & Companies

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:31:52 +0000

Following on from the recent introduction of text ads, Twitter have confirmed that they are looking to offer paid pro accounts for power users and companies in the near future in return for what’s somewhat elusively being termed at this juncture merely as ‘more features’.

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Scammer Scams Apple out of 9,000+ iPod Shuffles [Tries to Sell, Gets Caught]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:53 +0000

According to news surfacing over the weekend a scammer who managed to secure more than 9,000 iPod Shuffle’s directly from Apple by filling bogus replacement requests for non-existent Shuffles using valid serial numbers has been apprehended due to using an invalid credit card as security.

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ABIT To Cease Trading [The Overclockers Friend To Wind Up]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:29:21 +0000

Those amongst you who have ever dabbled with overclocking your PCs will no doubt hold ABIT in particularly high esteem – in no small part due to the fact that introduced the first ever jumperless motherboards (allowing CPU configuration to be adjusted directly via the computers BIOS – so you’ll join us in queuing up to wish ABIT a fond farewell following the (not unexpected) news that they are to cease trading as of 31 December 08.

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Apple iPhone Free 2.2 Update Released [New Google Maps Features, Mail & Safari Tweaks]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:32:53 +0000

Apple have just released update 2.2 for their iPhone which comes in at a not insignificant 246MB and which includes new Google Maps features as well as enhancements to the iPhone’s mail and Safari browser and improved sound quality of visual voicemail. It also promises to cut back on the number of dropped calls.

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Biometrics Spending Projected to Rise to $7.3 Billion by 2013, According to ABI Research

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:59:21 +0000

Unless you happen to work for a UK governmental body – in which case you’ll have an alarming propensity to leave sensitive data on public transport – you’ll know that, in an age where electronically held data is becoming increasingly targeted by criminals, data security is becoming increasingly big business. But a new report from ABI Research serves to underpin just how big the demand for data security actually is, specifically in terms of biometrics, with the company projecting private and public spending on biometrics to rise to a staggering $7.3 billion by 2013 (up from $3 billion this year).

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Google Goggles Gmail Feature Safeguards Against Mails You May Regret [State of Mind ‘Reality’ Check]

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:19:45 +0000

If you have ever sent a particularly harsh and pointed email when under the influence of alcohol – to, for example, your boss to tell him/her in no uncertain terms what you think of them or, perhaps, to your partner following a petty argument – which you’ve had cause to regret (and, let’s be honest here, more than a few of you can probably relate to this – I know I can) then a new Google Gmail application called Google Goggles could be of interest – if only if it keeps you from being fired/unceremoniously dumped.

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Microsoft Extends Windows XP Availability/Support, Again [MS Bows To OEM Pressure, XP Gets 6 Months Further Stay of Execution]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:01:11 +0000

One could be forgiven for coming to the understandable conclusion that Microsoft is positively sanctioning PC users skipping their much maligned Vista operating system altogether – thus potentially moving directly from XP to Microsoft’s seventh incarnation of the Windows OS whilst missing out Vista completely – if a leaked email from an un-named PC OEM is to be believed which purportedly advises that Microsoft has officially extended the operating (and supported) lifetime of its XP OS up until the end of July 2009 (thus adding a further six months to the previously touted XP obsolescence date of the end of January 09).

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MyMemory First To Bring Memory Vending Machines To The UK

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:42:54 +0000

MyMemory have become the first company to launch memory vending machines in the UK, allowing you to purchase a vast array of memory products – from USB flash drives to SD cards and CompactFlash cards – using your chip and pin card and have already introduced new memory vending machines at Gatwick Airport (North Terminal) and The Oracle Shopping Centre in Reading with view to installing further machines throughout the UK at airports, train stations and shopping centres.

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US Judge Rules YouTube Must Give Viacom Full Viewing Log [Including All YouTube User Log-in IDs]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:26:47 +0000

A US judge has ruled that Google, the owners of YouTube, must make its entire viewing log available to Viacom who are presently engaged with Google concerning allegations of copyright infringement in what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has termed as being ‘set-back to privacy rights’.

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Microsoft Offer Free iPods As Incentive for Aussies to Use Live Search [MS Live Secret Search]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:49:24 +0000

Whilst Microsoft’s dislike of all things Apple is well documented – MS even have ‘iPod Amnesty Bins’ in their headquarters to allow its staff to liberate themselves from Apple’s clutches – its being reported that MS are offering free iPods (namely Apple’s iPod Nano, Shuffle and Touch models) as an incentive intended to coax Australian internet users to try out MS’s newly revamped Live Search service via a scheme known as Secret Search.

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Dyson Electric Solar Car In Development [Dyson Eco Car – Environmentally Friendly, Probably Yellow, Cleans Roads In Transit?]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:35:11 +0000

Firstly, to put our usual flippancy aside, we should make it clear that there’s no signs that any forthcoming electric car from James ‘whatever I touch turns to gold’ Dyson will in fact clean roads whilst in transit but it is known that Sir Dyson is now working on developing an electric powered ‘eco car’ which will, we can safely assume, probably be made available in yellow.

According to reports, Dyson’s engineers based at Dyson HQ in Wiltshire are already working on development of the new Dyson Eco Car which will be powered by an electric motor based on Dyson’s ever popular range of cyclone vacuum cleaners with roof mounted solar panels serving to top up the juice whilst you’re out and about.

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Super Hi-Vision (SHV) 8K Projection System Showcased By NHK [Full 1080p x16 HD Resolution Paired with 22.2 Channel Surround Sound]

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:54:51 +0000

If you are still mesmerised by the picture quality of Full HD, which comes in at 1920 x 1080 resolution, then the news that NHK have showcased an 8K projection system capable of producing images that equate to a staggering sixteen times full 1080p HD quality (7680 x 4320 resolution to be precise) is enough to have you wondering just where it could all possibly be leading – perhaps to the point where the only limiting factor is our eyes.

Demonstrated at CommunicAsia, NHK’s 8K projection system comprises of two LCoS projector units offering a combined output of 8,000 lumens beaming pictures – captured with a prototype 8K camera – onto a screen measuring in at a considerable 6.6 x 3.7 meters. And, as if this is not impressive enough, how about adding a 22.2 channel surround sound set-up into the equation?

Seen as a precursor for SHV demonstration broadcasts set to take place this September (in which the UK’s BBC will be participating) you can also see SHV in action if you happen to be in easy reach of Kyushu National Museum in Japan whose Theater 4000 offers visitors first hand experience of SHV in action.

[via CNet]

AMD FireStream 9250 ‘Stream’ Processor Breaks 1 Teraflop Barrier [AMD FireStream 9250 Sets Pulses Racing At ISC]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:59:05 +0000

AMD have announced that their new AMD FireStream 9250 next generation double-precision floating point ‘Stream’ processor, which serves to build on the capabilities of AMD’s FireStream 9170, has succeeded in breaking the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance during the International Supercomputing Conference being held in Germany.

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Asus Detail Eee PC 901 & Eee PC 1000/H Micro Notebook US Pricing [New Asus Eee PC’s Step Out of Budget PC Bracket]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:24:52 +0000

We have tried our utmost to stay on top of developments concerning Asus’s new versions of its highly popular Eee PC – namely the new Eee PC 901, 10″ Eee PC 1000 and 10″ Eee PC 1000/H – and, by way of a brief update, we felt obliged to offer a heads up concerning pricing details of Asus’s new Eee PC’s which, as speculated, are somewhat higher than initially expected and serve to put the new Eee PC’s out of the budget bracket established by previous models.

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Date Confirmed [Mozilla’s New FireFox 3 Browser Set For June Release]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:23:05 +0000

Following a development period of some three years, Mozilla have today announced that their new FireFox 3 browser (release candidate) will become available for download on June 17 and, having tried the beta, we can confirm that FF3 is not only a great deal faster but its also, thankfully, far less resource hungry than its pervious iterations – though, at the time of writing, the majority of our favourite plug-ins are wholly incompatible with this new version.

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Western Digital 20,000RPM ‘Super’ VelociRaptor HDD To Take Fight To Solid State Drives? [WD Rumoured To Be Working on Super Fast HDD]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:43:20 +0000

According to ‘several sources close to the hard drive industry’ Western Digital is purportedly working on a new 20,000rpm version of its VelociRaptor, at the time of writing the world’s fastest SATA HDD, which is intended to directly compete against solid state drives in offering comparable speeds but with potentially far greater storage capacities.

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Best Buy Extends Electronics and Appliance Recycling Program [Free Recycling Service For Eco Conscious Consumers]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:51:09 +0000

Best Buy have just announced that they will be testing a new electronics recycling program in 117 of its stores in the US which, in serving to compliment Best Buy’s current recycling scheme, will ‘help consumers take environmentally-responsible action with their old electronics’.

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ITunes U Offers Phoenix Mars Mission Movies For Free Download [Free NASA Phoenix Mars Mission Multimedia Content]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:47:05 +0000

Having only just posted yesterday concerning the exciting news that the Phoenix Lander appears to have found ice just under the surface of Mars we thought it somewhat incumbent on us to offer a brief heads un concerning iTunes U now offering free Phoenix Mars Mission movies for download for those interested in the programme.

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Sharper Image Store Closing Down Sale Now Underway, Bargains to be Had [20% - 40% Discounts On Offer for Gadget Geeks]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:56:56 +0000

According to a press release just made available to us, Sharper Image, who filed for bankruptcy auction on May 29, 2008, have begun their store closure sale offering between 20% and 40% discounts on their $50 million inventory of products meaning that there are serious bargains to be had for the geeks and gadget freaks amongst you.

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Phoenix Finds Water In Form of Ice on Mars, Search For Life on Mars Begins [Are We On the Brink of A Major Scientific Discovery?]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:45:59 +0000

According to exciting news just hitting the wires NASA’s Phoenix has purportedly located what scientists are certain is ice just under the surface of Mars which appears to have been discovered thanks to the Phoenix Lander’s twelve retrorockets – used to slow the descent of the Phoenix prior to touchdown on the Martian surface – blowing away several inches of the surface to reveal what is believed to be an extended table of ice.

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Infogrames Phil Harrison Believes Single Player Only Games No Longer of Interest To Consumers [We Strongly Disagree, How About You?]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:05:45 +0000

According to Infogrames president and former Sony Computer Entertainment America’s front man, Phil Harrison, games developers will soon be looking to move away from developing purely single player games, such as Bioshock or the up and coming latest version of Alone in the Dark, on account of consumers no longer being interested solitary gaming experiences, perfering instead to opt for games offering network connectivity.

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SanDisk Extreme Ducati CompactFlash Card Offers ‘Highest Performance’ in Independent Review of Pro-Level (Cannon/Nikon) DSLR Cameras

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:18:50 +0000

Those of you who own pro-level DSLR cameras may be interested in a report conducted by an independent researcher by the name of Rob Galbraith which has confirmed that not only do SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash and SD cards offer considerable performance gains over competing memory cards but that SanDisk’s Extreme Ducati CompactFlash Card offers the highest rated performance when it comes to write times for both RAW and JPEG images.

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Millions of 3G iPhone Units in Place Pending Rumoured 9 June Launch [3G iPhone Already Amongst Us and Tantalisingly Close to Release]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:38:03 +0000

Rumours that Apple’s new 3G iPhone is indeed set for a 9 June launch, as is widely speculated, have been further fuelled by a detailed report published by Forbes which serves to bring together numerous sightings of mysterious shipments to various ports in the US as well as a marked increase in Steve Job’s private jet expenses as he purportedly finalises deals with distribution partners.

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Dell Set To Take On Asus Eee PC with Dell Mini Notebook [Dell Poised To Enter Mini Notebook Wars with ‘Mini Inspiration’]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:02:11 +0000

It seems like not a single day goes past without another contender entering the mini notebook ring set on socking it to Asus’s Eee PC range and now, to add to the likes of HP’s Mini Note and MSI’s Wind (to name but two) it appears that Dell is set to enter the fray with their up and coming ‘Mini Inspiration’ PC (though much, including the device’s true title, remains closely under wraps).

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Asus To Launch Eee PC 901 & New Eee PC 1000 At Computex [Asus Eee 10” Display Model Suspected]

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:26:30 +0000

Back on April 21st we reported that Asus may be looking to introduce a new Eee PC with a larger 10” screen (see: Asus Eee Mini Notebook Range To Get ‘Uber Eee’ with 10” Screen) and now it appears that Asus may well be launching this new model, known as the Asus Eee PC 1000, along with their new (non WiMAX) Asus Eee PC 901 at the up and coming Computex 2008 event to be held in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Intel Atom Dual Core Processor Available By Q3 08, According to Apparent Leak [Atom 330 Dual Core First Details Emerge]

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:22:28 +0000

According to a leak being touted as legitimate, we could see the first notebooks sporting Intel’s first Dual Core Atom processors by the end of the year thanks to a chip being billed as the Atom 330 which, if the leak is to believed, will boast a Thermal Design Power (TDP) rating of 8W which, whilst being considerably more than that of the single core Atom 230 – which has a TDP of 2W – is far less than any of Intel’s other low-voltage processors.

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High Voltage Software Quantum3 graphics engine For Nintendo Wii To Offer ‘Xbox 360 Quality Graphics’ [Will Harness True Technical Capabilities of Nintendo's Wii]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:54:41 +0000

‘Most of the games on [the] Wii look like crap’ according to High Voltage’s Eric Nofsinger who, apart from not mincing his words, belives that third-party developers need to ‘step up to the plate and deliver [to show that] the Wii platform is capable of a lot more than what consumers have seen so far’ and, to that end, he belives that the company’s new iteration of their Quantum3 graphics engine will serve to ‘raise a new bar’ as far as graphics quality on the Wii is concerned.

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Activision Confirm Wii Version of Guitar Hero World Tour To Offer Downloadable Content For Wii Gamers [Utalising Wii’s Limited Storage Capacity]

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:26:52 +0000

Activision has confirmed that the Wii version of their Guitar Hero World Tour software title, previously known as Guitar Hero Rock Band Edition World Tour, is set to become the ‘first game ever in the Guitar Hero franchise to allow in-game downloadable content on Wii’ just as various software publishes are raising concerns that the Wii, in lacking a HDD based storage solution such as those offered by the PS3 and Xbox 360, is proving a stumbling block as far the development of downloadable content is concened.

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Premier Inn Budget Hotel Chain To Offer Rooms On the Moon Within 25 Years [Moon Plot 'Already Purchased' ]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:36:33 +0000

According to reports surfacing in the English press, the budget hotel chain Premier Inn has announced that it plans to offer guests rooms on the Moon within twenty-five years and have, according to reports, apparently already purchased a plot on the Moon in preparation for the construction of their first Moon based hotel.

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Grand Theft Auto IV’s Niko Moans About Earnings [Michael ‘Niko’ Hollick Cites Lack of Respect for 'Tough' Deal]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:01:03 +0000

It seems that the real world actors behind the key characters in Rockstar’s blockbuster, Grand Theft Auto IV, are less than happy with their earnings, with Michael Hollick, the actor behind the voice and motion-capture of GTA’s main character, Niko, stating that ‘it’s tough, when you see Grand Theft Auto IV out there as the biggest thing going right now, when they’re making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don’t see any of it’.

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Flatmobile Jet Powered Car Set To Claim ‘World’s Lowest Vehicle’ Record [Super Squished Batmobile]

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:55:11 +0000

Looking like the aftermath of passing the Batmobile through a rather large mangle, this jet powered Flatmobile, which even comes complete with Batmobile inspired missile tips placed either side of the front number plate and measures in at a mere 48cm (19”) in height, looks set to enter the Guinness record books as being the world’s flattest ever vehicle.

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Pizza Hut Offer Windows/Mac Desktop Pizza Ordering Widget [Take Out At The Click Of A Mouse]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:02:20 +0000

Pizza Hut have today announced the immediate availability a new downloadable widget, known somewhat unimaginatively as the ‘Pizza Hut Shortcut’, which will allow users who are either unable or unwilling to pick up a handset or leave their PCs – or visit the Pizza Hut website, for that matter – to order pizzas directly from ‘comfort’ of their computer desktops.

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AOL Acquisition of Bebo Social Networking Site Complete [Becomes Centrepiece of AOL’s People Networks]

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:50:45 +0000

AOL have just announced that it has now completed its well publicised acquisition of the Bebo social networking site which will now become the centrepiece of AOL’s People Networks business unit which already includes AIM, ICQ. And has a user base of some 80 million worldwide.

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Wii Fit Dares to Call Young Girl ‘Fat’ – Experts Call For Parental Warning (and even a ban)

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:25:28 +0000

Who could possibly have envisaged Nintendo’s Wii Fit as being the next software title to have ‘nanny state’ experts up in arms and calling for reclassification and even a ban, but, thanks to the fact that a certain Wii Fit balance board had the audacity to call a young girl ‘fat’ that’s exactly what’s happened.

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Ikea Set to Sell Furnishings in Sims 2 Thanks to Expansion Pack [Ikea & Electronic Arts Hook Up, Sims Develop Meatball Fixation]

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:07:19 +0000

Whilst real life products being offering within games is nothing new – Second Life being a prime example – we couldn’t help but raise a smile concerning the news that the Swedish company known for its affordable furnishings are to have a range of their products made available in Electronic Arts’ Sims 2 title thanks to an up and coming expansion pack.

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LG Produce World’s Largest Ever Circular LCD Display – Elliptical Full Face LCD Watches Become A (Tantalising) Reality

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:14 +0000

LG have somewhat proudly announced that they have succeeded in producing the largest completely circular LCD display which brings forward the tantalising possibility of elliptical full LCD display watches and, in time, perhaps even circular digital photo frames as well as circular LCD display panels for mobile phones, rounded LCD automobile dashboard displays and curved displays on consumer electronics, et al.

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Dell Refutes WSJ Report Concerning XPS Gaming Systems Facing the Axe [XPS Gaming Rigs Live on, For Now]

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:15:43 +0000

Only yesterday we posted concerning a report in the WSJ that claimed that Dell’s XPS performance gaming range of PCs were to be discontinued but, in a statement released today, a Dell spokeswoman has acted to reassure those with XPS gaming rigs that Dell not only has absolutely no intention of axing the range but will also ‘continue to refresh them to keep them on the front edge of gaming’.

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