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Yes, the Toshiba Portégé R600 is really light at 800g

What better way to make your commodity product stand out than by adding some fins? Of course, the laptop equivalent of adding fins is to make them thinner and lighter than the previous generation. That’s just what Toshiba did with its Portégé R600, a laptop with a 12.1-inch d...

Vnunet: EU wants to lead the next internet generation with web 3.0

The European Commission is considering the implications of Web 3.0 in order to help Europe lead the next generation of the internet, said Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information Society and Media. ...

Toshiba launches its first netbook The British division of Toshiba announced its entry into the market of netbooks with the NB100, that use of Atom 1.6 GHz processor by Intel, and will come equipped with the Linux operating system Ubuntu or Windows XP Home.Among its features are Ethernet port co...

Genealogy: Historic Canadian ship passenger lists go online

From the article: The records of millions of British emigrants who sailed Canada in search of a new life are now available online through The records of millions of British emigrants who sailed Canada in search of a new life are now available online through Ancestry.co.uk. The Canadian Passenger ...

vnunet: Samsung’s wannabe Omnia just cannot match Apple’s revolutionary iPhone

Samsung's Omnia smartphone seems to have been designed as the Windows Mobile answer to the iPhone... ...

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