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The latest edition of Greenpeacea s "Guide to Greener Electronics" reveals that the worlda s biggest PC manufacturers, Hewlett Packard, Dell and Lenovo, each failed to improve their low scores from the previous year.

Most PC-savvy Americans keep their address books, calendars, and notes on computers.

Get connected without wires. The Wireless-N Home Router gives you a wireless connection that's twice the speed of Wireless-G so your whole family can share a broadband Internet connection and access files from almost anywhere in the house.

Whenever Apple releases a new product, folks will sacrifice one of these gadgets in order to dissemble the component parts and attempt to determine their identity and cost.

A SanDisk investment commentator, blogging as Savolainen , reckons Apple is going to introduce a tablet or netbook-type Mac.

Thursday, 2 July 2009, 3:27 pm Press Release: Greenpeace New Zealand Greener Electronics - Companies Backtrack on Toxics Phase-Out Auckland, 2 July 2009.

If you thought bankruptcy would keep the industrious folks at Psystar from making any more Mac clones, you were sorely mistaken.

BLOGS Sony appears to be the one of the first PC makers to start shipping computers with the controversial preinstalled Green Dam Youth Escort Internet filtering software mandated by China's government.

Perfect Notebook Storage: Seven 2.5a 500 GB Drives We compare the latest 500 GB notebook drives from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and WD.

Just days before the deadline to comply with China's order, the letter from 22 chambers of commerce and trade groups representing the world's major technology suppliers adds to mounting pressure on Beijing to halt the plan following a formal protest by Washington.

Restrictions on Web access through Department of Defense computers prevent some military police and Criminal Investigation Command investigators from accessing sites relevant to their cases.

Multitouch chipset firm N-trig have announced a partnership with Fujitsu to produce their next breed of DuoSense touchscreen controllers.A The next-gen DuoSense system will not only be smaller than the existing version, but require less power and recognize "10 or more simultaneous touch points at very high refresh rates." A The technology will come ...

STRENGTHENS PORTFOLIO: Peng Yang , Director, Centre of Excellence, and Amar Babu, Managing Director, Lenovo with the new range of Lenovo laptops in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The latest update of Greenpeace International's " Guide to Greener Electronics " indicates that the world's biggest PC makers - Hewlett Packard, Dell and Lenovo - have again failed to meet their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants from their products by the end of 2009.

In a sign that should bode well for Apple's earnings in its third fiscal quarter - which ended Saturday - the MacBook has clawed its way back to the top of Amazon's bestseller lists.

A financial analyst with Morgan Stanley raised her forecast for Mac sales in the second quarter, saying Apple is increasing shipments of its computers at a higher rate than the PC industry as a whole.

RISE up, O Macintosh computer comrades of Melbourne, rise up and wave your fist with indignation! Raise your tastefully designed fist, in aesthetically pleasing indignation.

A small software firm in the tony enclave of Santa Barbara may have helped personal computer makers fend off demands by the Chinese government for mandatory Web-filtering software on all PCs sold in China.

Analysis: Entrepreneurs who are starting their own businesses in the current economy - " whether by choice or circumstances - " could learn a lot from our the '80s TV character.

July 1, 2009, 06:49 PM - - Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware.