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Multiple monitors makes some multitasking faster, easier

If employees in your organization are spending a lot of time toggling back and forth among documents, email, instant messages, calendars and websites, they may need more than one monitor. Adding a

Breakthrough: Lithium battery life doubled by NEC

NEC on Monday announced the development of a new lithium-ion battery that the company says could hold 83 percent of its original charge after 23,500 cycles. Based on tests it conducted, NEC estimates

Linux the first operating system to support USB 3.0

Remember our report on the first USB 3.0 controller from NEC late last month? Well, it looks like a Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center has completed the driver support for USB

Will USB 3.0 change the world?

The world's first controller chip for USB 3.0 has been announced by NEC. Samples are expected to be available in June, with volume production by Q3. This is a significant first step, since it means

First USB 3.0 controller announced

NEC has announced the world's first controller chip for USB 3.0. It is also known as SuperSpeed USB and it has a blistering peak data-transfer of 5 Gbps. The new technology will put a new generation

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> Mozilla patches Firefox vulnerability. Article > NEC launches official Vista downgrade product.

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> Virtualizing the Xserve with Parallels. Article > Digital picture

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USB 3.0 spec to arrive next year

First there was USB 1.0. Then there was USB 2.0. Can you guess what's next? That's right: USB 3.0. At the Fall IDF show in San Francisco, a consortium of vendors including Intel, Microsoft, HP, TI,

Lenovo in talks to acquire Packard Bell

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Though once a mainstay of the IBM-compatible clone world, vendor Packard Bell fell off the map when the company merged with NEC in the late '90s, amid complaints