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  • Deleu GPSMouse Packs GPS Functionality

    Deleu GPSMouse Packs GPS FunctionalitySeasoned travellers fed up with lugging about more and more components and chargers may warm to Deluo’s ingenious GPSMouse, which – as the name suggests – cunningly combines a GPS receiver and a travel mouse into one product.

    The silver and grey unit packs all the usual features of a USB-powered travel-sized laptop mouse, with a lightweight form factor, optical sensor and handy built-in retractable cable to avoid getting the wire snagged in your seat/headphone cable/travelling companion’s beard.
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  • All Laptop Batteries “Dangerous”: Experts

    All Laptop Batteries Japanese experts have warned that the fundamental technology behind lithium-ion cells – the batteries that currently power most laptops and mobile phones – is inherently iffy and the design must be changed toot de suite for the safety of consumers.

    Professor Masataka Wakihara of the Tokyo Institute of Technology – who has the unusual job of advising the Japanese Government about battery safety – has said that changes must be made to the manufacturing process to ensure that they are robust enough for everyday use.
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  • Fujitsu Lifebook U810 Gets US Release

    Fujitsu Lifebook U810 Gets US Release So small you want to pat it on the head and send it to bed early, Fujitsu’s diminutive Lifebook U810 is an ultramobile PC that can keep up with the big boys.

    Weighing just 1.6 pounds, the pint-sized, pocketable portable sports a 5.6-inch LCD touchscreen display (which can be swivelled around into a tablet PC), Wi-Fi, a QWERTY keyboard and runs on Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS or XP Tablet operating system.
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  • BB Edit Updated: HTML Editors

    Old school web authors who remain unimpressed with market leader Dreamweaver’s visual approach to building pages might be interested in the latest update to the BBEdit text editor, made by Bare Bones Software.
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  • Lenovo Announces Linux ThinkPads And £100 PCs

    Lenovo Announces Linux ThinkPads And £100 PCsFollowing in Dell’s footsteps, Lenovo has announced that it will start selling its ThinkPad notebooks with the open source Linux operating system preloaded.

    Commercial buyers and individual customers will now be able to specify SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell on Lenovo’s range of notebooks from the fourth quarter of 2007 – including those in the popular ThinkPad T Series.
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  • Give Your XP Machine A Vista-esque Sheen

    Give Your XP Machine A Vista-esque SheenIf you’re fed up with the relentless blueness of the standard XP theme but can’t be arsed with all those fiddly downloadable theme programs, maybe you’ll warm to the Royale theme.

    It’s apparently an unreleased Microsoft XP Media Centre theme that was leaked out to the web, and it looks rather purdy in a shiny but dark’n’moody Vista-esque sort of way.
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  • Eurcom D900C Quad Core Phantom-X Laptop Goes On Sale

    Eurcom Quad Core D900C Phantom-X Laptop Goes On SaleBilled as the “ultimate Mobile Workstation” for graphics pros, gamers, CAD/3D wizards and video content creators, Eurocom’s quad-core D900C Phantom-X looks something of a fearsome beast.

    The shiny quad-core monster comes with an upgradeable processor, with the top of the range Intel Core 2 Quad option (Q6700, 2.66Ghz, FSB1066) packing 8MBof L2 cache and adding a whopping $755 (£370, €550) to the already wallet-frightening base configuration of $2,999 (£1,500, €2,200).
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  • T-Mobile Web’n’Walk USB Modem

    If you’re needing Internet access for your laptop when you’re out and about and the Wi-Fi’s nowhere to be seen, – and you haven’t been lucky enough to have been using the version that Vodafone has been exclusively offering for nearly a year – you might be interested in the T-Mobile web’n’walk USB modem.

    As its name suggests, this wee little fella made by Huawei plugs into a USB port on your laptop, with a once-only auto-installation program getting you up and running in minutes. Two USB cables are included.
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  • X-pointer Bigs Up The Bling Factor

    X-pointer Bigs Up The Bling FactorIf you’re finding that your PowerPoint presentations are lacking a little bling and pizzazz, then you might want to consider investing in the gold plated X-pointer to dazzle your audience.

    The (frankly hideous) piece of shiny tut functions as a remote control, a wireless mouse, a laser pointer and a portable storage device, and comes coated with an 18k gold finish.
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  • Toshiba Launches Satellite U305 Laptop Range

    Toshiba Launches Satellite U305 Laptop RangeHoping to lure the wallets of well heeled students and small businesses, Toshiba have announced the addition of the Satellite U305 range to their lappie line up.

    The Vista Home Premium-powered machines come in three flavours, starting out at $899 for the Satellite U305-S5097 and going up to $1,399 for the Satellite U305-S5127.
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