Tag: Announces
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Blackberry Debuts New Classic Style Mobile
Intent on turning around the struggling Canadian smartphone brand, new(ish) Blackberry CEO Jason Chen has just announced Blackberry’s new phone. Apparently for the company, the best way forward is to go back to their roots – the new Blackberry classic appears to echo a simpler time, when the smartphone manufacturer was a bit more prolific.…
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120TB Tape Drives Announced
Long, long ago, when computers needed whole rooms due to their massive size, information storage was best achieved using tape drives. A long reel of tape, stamped with rewritable positive or negative dots which create binary code, wa sthe best method of storing huge amounts of data (at that time). Far from the whirring behemoths…
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Microsoft Announces Xbox 360 to Get BBC, LoveFilm, Channel 4, Channel 5, YouTube
Microsoft is looking to expand its online TV streaming portfolio and will be adding free services to the Xbox 360 for the first time from the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Youtube and many others across the world by the end of the year. Part of the new collection will include the movie rental service…
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Nokia Continues to Struggle: Drops 3500 Jobs
Nokia is finally making good on claims of “substantial reductions in employment”, with an estimated 3500 employees being made redundant in factories in various countries as a result of across-the-board manufacturing cost cuts. The company’s downsizing due to reduced handset sales has hit their massive manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania, as Nokia intends to move…
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IFA 2011: LG Announces Its New Flagship LW980T LED TV’s
Today’s press conferences from the IFA 2011 yielded quite a few announcements – one of which was a new line of flagship LED TV’s from Korean manufacturer LG. According to the company the product range includes some of the best 3D technology and Smart TV found on the market today. LG announced that the new…