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Acer Aspire One goes Pink and Brown
Published in News, Technology News | Written by Matt "Maxel"
This week the big opening of the new Guanghua computer market took place.
Along with other products, the new Acer Laptop (the Acer Aspire One) was on display. The laptop was said to come in two colours, ones that some may consider ‘unusual’ for a laptop.
BIOSTAR Launches TPower I45
Published in News, Technology News | Written by Rhys
BIOSTAR launches quite a few models for different user groups at different price points. TPower I45, TP45 HP, TP43 HP, TP45D2-A7, TP43D2-A7, P43-A7 collocate with either ICH10R or ICH10. Powerful north and south bridge compose the best performance platform. TPower I45 is the most unique solution with its wide set of features and new, extended TPower utility. This model is future-proof and users will get the most tunable and upgradeable platform supporting upcoming CPUs and PCI-Express 2.0 graphics cards ever.
Leadtek WinFast GTX 280 and GTX260
Published in News, Technology News | Written by Rhys
Rising to the expectations of global gamers, Leadtek Research Inc., a global front runner in extreme visual graphics technology development, announces the debut of its new epochal graphics card series, WinFast GTX 280 1024MB and GTX 260 896MB. Based on the NVIDIA GTX 280 and GTX 260 chipsets, these high power graphics cards have been born to transform and take gaming into a new and exhilarating new era.
OCZ Introduces Elixir Keyboards
Published in News, Technology News | Written by Rhys
OCZ, announced today the expansion of its gaming peripherals under a new “Alchemy” line, with the introduction of the Elixir keyboard series for highly advanced functionality in game-play.
Super Talent Ships Tiny Gold 8GB Storage Device
Published in News, Technology News | Written by Rhys
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced the PICO-C Gold, a 24-carat gold plated, water resistant USB drive that weighs less than a nickel (~4.7 grams), is smaller than an SD card, and can store over 2,000 MP3 songs.
Funcom gives accidental “Boob-Job”
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Rhys
Funcom recently launched a new patch for Age of Conan which automatically patched the game without players consent. The new patch gave characters a “new and improved” frontal look consisting of “boob-jobs”. Funcom have confirmed the patch to be an error though and have said that it was not their intension to do it.
Apple announces 3G iPhone
Published in News, Other News | Written by Rhys
Yet again, Apple have managed to get everyone hyped up about one of their new releases – the 3G iPhone. The rumours of a 3G iPhone were started just after the initial release of the first gen model – but fanboys have been losing the edge within the last few months. Thankfully though – before the fanboys go into termoil – Apple has announced the release.
Facebook to be most used UK website
Published in News, Other News | Written by Rhys
According to analysts, Facebook usage has soared over the last year and now, 2.4 billion minutes are spent on the site throughout the UK, a rise of over 1.9bn minutes on April last year. Altogether, there is a a total of more than 8 million Facebook users in the UK – we really are sad aren’t we.
The impact that facebook has left is on students becoming addicted to it but also on the popular Windows Live Messenger- which is quickly in decline.
Police Officer shot ‘playing role of criminal’
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A police officer killed by a single shot from a colleague’s shotgun while on a training exercise was named last night by Greater Manchester police as Ian James Terry.
Leon Willis, 26, was working at a plumbing supplies shop across the road from the site. He said: “We heard a loud bang. I don’t know if it was a gunshot or not. Then about 10 minutes later all the emergency services were going past in droves.”
Battlefield: Bad Company strikes gold
Published in Gaming News, News | Written by Rhys
Battlefield Bad Company has gotten to gold status and will be in stores in America on 25th June and in Europe on June 27th. However, Bad Company will only be available on Xbox 360 and PS3 – bit of a shock considering the success of Battlefield 2 on PC.
