HP slides out 11mm thick 24-inch display

HP x2401. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Hewlett-Packard is adding a new thin X series monitor -- this time a 24-incher. The new HP x2401 24-inch diagonal LED backlit monitor has an 11-millimeter profile encased in a glossy black-piano finish and brushed-metal case. Sporting a resolution of 1920x1080, it taps MVA (multi-domain vertical alignment) to deliver good viewing angles and 5,000:1 and 10,000,000:1...

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iPhoto 1.1 for iOS now handles 36-megapixel images

iPhoto for iOS devices brings touch controls to photo editing. (Credit: Apple) Good news for all you Nikon D800 who have a third-generation iPad or about to buy an iPhone 5: the new iPhoto 1.1 iOS app now can handle your 36.3-megapixel images. iPhoto 1.0 for iOS, or version 1.1 on earlier iPhones and iPods, could handle only 19-megapixel images, which ruled out its use on photos from higher-end...

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$199 Kindle Fire HD's display puts Retina iPad on notice

7-inch Kindle Fire HD packs a great display, says DisplayMate. (Credit: Amazon) Amazon's Kindle Fire HD display is good enough to challenge the pricier Retina iPad's display and "decisively" beat Google's Nexus 7, said display testing firm DisplayMate. In an article posted Wednesday, DisplayMate compared the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD with the third-generation iPad Retina and got a surprising result....

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Behind the curtain at Google's Cirque du Soleil show

Dive into Cirque du Soleil's Web show, Movi.Kanti.Revo Google Chrome and Cirque du Soleil have partnered to show off the potential of the modern Web with an all-HTML5 Cirque performance that's unique to the Web, called Movi.Kanti.Revo. The name comes from the Esperanto terms for moving, singing, and dreaming, according to the official Movi.Kanti.Revo Google announcement, and the experience...

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Adobe meets Q3 estimates, cuts outlook based on cloud transition

Adobe's fiscal third quarter results were roughly in line with expectations, but the company cut its outlook based on a transition to a cloud computing model. The company reported third-quarter earnings of $201.4 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue $1.08 billion, which met the low end of Adobe's expectations. Non-GAAP earnings in the third quarter were 58 cents a share, in line with estimates. ...

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Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff preaches the social enterprise gospel

Marc Benioff: "This social revolution is unlike anything we have experienced before." (Credit: James Martin/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO--When company CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff took the stage at the giant Moscone Center today, 14,000 people, mostly customers, packed the auditorium to hear his two-hour keynote as he preached the social enterprise gospel and announced a bevy of new products and upgrades....

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Gates up, Zuckerberg down in latest ranking of super-rich

Bill Gates held onto his No. 1 position for the 19th straight year in Forbes' annual ranking of the 400 richest people in America. Helped by the appreciation in Microsoft's stock in the last year, Gates' $66 billion net worth increased by $7 billion from a year earlier. He was joined on the list by fellow tech moguls Larry Ellison, whose $41 billion put him in the No. 3 spot. Amazon.com CEO Jeff...

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Google, Facebook, Amazon lead new tech lobby group

The Internet Association, a lobbying group made up of some of the Web's most powerful companies, has officially launched. The organization today announced that it's now operating in Washington, D.C. under the leadership of president and CEO Michael Beckerman. First announced earlier this year, The Internet Association is backed by 14 Web companies, including Amazon, AOL, Google, Facebook, Yahoo,...

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EU to market test e-book settlement proposed by publishers, Apple

The European Union's European Commission (EC) confirmed today that Apple, along with four e-book publishers, have offered up a settlement deal on e-book price-fixing that could be approved in the coming months. According to the EC, Apple, Harper Collins, Hachette Livre, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster (which is owned by CBS, the same company that publishes CNET) have agreed to terminate e-book...

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Intel sets Windows 8 tablet event with HP, Samsung, others

Hewlett-Packard's Envy x2 'convertible' laptop uses Intel's new dual-core Clover Trail chip. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Intel is going to kick off the season of the Windows 8 tablet by hosting an event next week attended by virtually all of the major PC players. The September 27 event will highlight products using Intel's "Clover Trail" Z2760 (PDF) power-efficient system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor....

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Display tech, 4G hikes iPhone 5 cost to $199

The iPhone 5's new display, 4G LTE silicon, and A6 chip add cost compared to the iPhone 4S, said iSuppli. (Credit: Apple) A preliminary analysis puts the iPhone 5's cost at $199, slightly more than the iPhone 4S. The virtual teardown by IHS iSuppli puts the bill of materials, or BOM, at $199 for the low-end model with 16GB of NAND flash memory. After factoring in the $8 manufacturing cost,...

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Apple, Intel skating to mobile face-off in 2013

Motorola Razr i with Intel Z2460 chip that runs at speeds up to 2GHz. (Credit: Motorola) With signs that Apple has designed one of the fastest smartphone chips yet, Intel is getting set to rev up its smartphone silicon in 2013. Performance benchmark site Geekbench is already showing the iPhone 5's dual-core A6 central processing unit (CPU) with roughly twice the performance of the A5 chips in...

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Fourandsix releases image-authenticator software

Fourandsix's Photoshop plug-in will judge whether an image has been edited. (Credit: Fourandsix) Fourandsix Technologies, a startup founded by a former Photoshop bigwig and a image-analysis guru, has released its first product, the FourMatch software to detect changes to an image. The most obvious use for the $890 Photoshop plug-in: ensuring that digital photos used as legal evidence are authentic....

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Yahoo closes $7.6 billion buy-back deal with Alibaba

Yahoo has received a healthy sum of much-needed cash now that its Alibaba deal has official closed. Under the terms of the deal, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has paid Yahoo $7.6 billion to buy back half of the 40 percent of its shares that were owned by Yahoo. Yahoo received around $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million in preferred Alibaba shares. Alibaba has also paid Yahoo a one-time cash...

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Help wanted: $183K plus. Tool gives lowdown on tech salaries

Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff Anyone who works in tech is going to like this. Wealthfront, an online financial adviser based in Palo Alto, Calif., today rolled out an interactive tool (see below) that let's you see what tech jobs pay among private firms across the country. You'll learn, for instance, that software architects make more than managers -- a mean of $183,000 a year plus equity compared...

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U.S. ITC to investigate Apple at Motorola's request

The U.S. International Trade Commission is taking a deeper look into Apple's most popular products. The organization today announced that it will investigate certain Apple iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Macs, after Motorola requested the inquiry last month. In the motion filed last month, Motorola asked the ITC to determine if Apple's products violate section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by infringing...

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Lenovo builds toward the cloud with Stoneware acquisition

The Lenovo IdeaPad Z500. (Credit: Lenovo) Lenovo will acquire software company Stoneware as the PC maker pushes to offer more cloud products. The world's second largest PC maker by shipments already has a foot in the door with cloud-related services, which allow Intel-based computers to connect to cloud services through APIs, dubbed the "client to cloud" strategy. Lenovo's Secure Cloud Access...

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Apple's A6 chip development detailed

Apple's Phil Schiller introduces the A6 processor at last week's event. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) How did Apple arrive at the A6 chip in the iPhone 5? A longtime chip analyst documents the long and winding road. While endorsing a report that the A6 is a unique Apple design, Linley Gwennap, who heads The Linley Group, a chip consultancy, posted a brief history of the A6's chip development in...

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AMD CFO Thomas Seifert resigns, sending stock down 8 percent

Former AMD CFO Thomas Seifert. (Credit: AMD) Advanced Micro Devices announced the resignation today of Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert, sending the company's stock down 8 percent. Seifert, who had been with the chipmaker for three years, had briefly served as the company's interim chief executive officer last year after the resignation of CEO Dirk Meyer in January 2011. Seifert returned...

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IRobot sucks up Mint maker Evolution Robotics

Scooba and Mint: Now BFF. (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) Is Roomba going square? Besides celebrating the vac-bot's tenth birthday today, iRobot announced that it's buying Evolution Robotics, whose sleek, four-sided Mint droid cleans hard surfaces with disposable cloths. The $74 million deal brings the compact, lightweight Mint into the iRobot fold, giving the vacubot maker another product to tackle...

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Square perks up, now handles $8B in payments a year

Square is growing by leaps, bounds, and venti lattes. The payment-processing company, which allows merchants to swipe cards with a device connected to mobile devices, today announced that it's now handling $8 billion in transactions every year. Just a year ago, that figure stood at over $1 billion, and earlier this year, Square CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was processing $4 billion in transactions...

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Microsoft: Come 'celebrate' Windows 8 on Oct. 25

Microsoft is holding its Windows 8 event on October 25. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft plans to hold a special event next month celebrating the launch of Windows 8. The company today sent out an invite to a Windows 8 celebration for October 25 in New York City. Microsoft didn't offer up any details on the announcement, including the location or the time. The company also didn't say exactly what...

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Cloud-storage Box boosts its upload speed

Box, the cloud storage company that serves companies including LinkedIn, McAfee, and DirectTV, launched a service today that is suppose to make file transfers from the cloud up to 10 times faster. The Box service lets businesses and individual consumers store their files in the cloud, much like competitors Dropbox and Google Drive. But Whitney Bouck, Box's general manager of enterprise, said that...

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iPhone 5 benchmarks surface: Performance doubles

iPhone 5 packs the fastest Apple A series chip to date, according to benchmarks posted by Geekbench. (Credit: Apple) The iPhone 5's A6 processor appears to be roughly twice as fast as any chip in an existing iOS product, if results posted by Geekbench prove to be accurate. The results show a score of 1,601, beating the dual-core A5 and A5X processors in the iPhone 4s and third-generation iPad...

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The PC is not dead yet, say readers

The PC isn't going away. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Don't dismiss the PC, is the tenor of a lot of the responses to a Saturday post where I addressed the coverage of Apple and the iPhone 5 this past week. "For a working man like me, the PC is a serious piece of machine. It puts food on my table. As for the smartphone, the phone is important. No doubt about it. What makes it smart also turns it...

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iPhone 5 gets more, faster memory, says report

Apple did not hide the markings on the A6 chip at the Wednesday event. This gave chip sleuths a way to determine system memory capacity and speed -- so a chip review site claims. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) The iPhone 5 sports 1GB of system memory, twice the amount of the iPhone 4S, a chip review site claims. And it's faster too, said Anandtech in a post on Saturday. "Roughly 33 percent more...

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A6 chip: More Apple, less ARM

Apple A6 may be a more unique Apple design than first believed. (Credit: Apple) Apple's chip investments may have borne native fruit with the A6. The iPhone 5's A6 may be more of an Apple creation than previous A series chips, according to an updated post by review site Anandtech. Like Qualcomm, Apple is incorporating more of its in-house expertise into chips. And that means it's getting further...

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Apple, and the media, bury the PC

Phil Schiller talks iPhone 5 at Wednesday's Apple event. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) You would think the PC was six feet under by reading tech coverage this week. With every aspect of the iPhone 5 dissected ad nauseam by legions of tech journalists worldwide, coverage of the ultrabook at the concurrent Intel event didn't stand a chance. Problem is, there's just too much cool tech that Apple...

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