10 reasons why Windows XP will be around a while

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Windows XP continues to demonstrate formidable staying power. Here are some reasons why many organizations want to hang onto it. Read more

Photo gallery: MSI X340 Slim

 

The MSI X340 is as thin and flashy as the MacBook Air and the Dell Adamo, but costs less than half as much. See how it stacks up as a business laptop. View on site

BlackBerry Desktop for Mac coming soon, walk-through posted

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While Windows is still the dominant operating system for people's computers, the Mac OS X community continues to grow and can't be ignored by the mobile operating system creators. Third parties, such as PocketMac and Mark/Space, have developed solutions to sync mobile devices with Apple computers. These solutions are often... Read more

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new... Read more

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Modern Motherboard Technology Explained

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By: Sandra Prior

Of course, it's one thing to know the theory behind how new technologies can be connected together on a motherboard, but it's another to know where you're going to physically pop your processor, memory and expansion cards. That's handled by the ATX specification, now up to version 2.2. Despite being incredibly dull, it's vitally important and specifies crucial things such as: what size the motherboard can be, where mounting holes are located, power connections, power levels, physical positioning of components, color of connections and so on. Boring maybe, but if vendors decided they'd put these things wherever they liked, it'd be chaos. Read More>>