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OWC announces a cheaper 128GB Mac Pro RAM kit compared to what others offer

If you need to stuff 128GB of RAM into a new Mac Pro, OWC appears to be the cheapest way to go.
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WD casts down the first Thunderbolt bus-powered portable dual hard drive

Western Digital has just released new external hard drives that employ Thunderbolt and pack a pair of disks that can be configured in RAID as well.
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Plextor’s M6M mSATA SSDs offer big performance built for smaller devices

Plextor's new M6M line of mSATA SSDs will attempt to bring speedy data transfer rates while catering to slim computing gear.
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Puget Systems offers to give their Windows 8 systems a Windows 7-like look and feel

Puget Systems offers its customers the option to tweak Windows 8 and make it function and feel like its more popular cousin, Windows 7.
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Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows

The source code for MS-DOS and an early version of Microsoft Word for Windows are now available to the public through the Computer History Museum.
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Apple may ship a Macbook Air wielding a Retina Display in second half of 2014

One of Apple's Taiwan-based component manufacturers claims that Apple will ship a Macbook Air with Retina Display during the second half of 2014.
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Intel’s Black Brook reference AIO desktop design looks familiar

Intel unveiled the "Black Brook," an all in one desktop PC that sports a built in battery, and looks awfully familiar.
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Intel’s upcoming ‘Devil’s Canyon’ CPUs are built with overclockers in mind

Intel reportedly plans to release a new set of high-end CPUs designed specifically to maximize their overclocking potential later this year.
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Ex-Microsoft employee arrested for leaking Windows 8, passing trade secrets

Former Microsoft software engineer Alex Kibkalo was arrested in Seattle on Wednesday, accused of leaking Windows 8 prior to its release.
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Toshiba’s new wireless adapter gives external hard drives wireless connectivity

Got an external hard drive you wish you could access wirelessly? Check out this adapter, which lets you do just that.
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Unix botnet Operation Windigo steals your credentials and sends tons of spam

An Internet security research team has discovered "Operation Windigo," a Unix botnet which has infected thousands of systems.
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New Corsair Carbide Series SPEC cases are aimed at penny-pinching PC builders

Corsair's new line of PC cases offer some decent visual flair and features for the bargain basement price.
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Apple pushes Safari 7.0.3 for Mavericks, 6.1.3 for Mountain Lion to developers

Apple has released betas of Safari version 7.0.3 on Mavericks and 6.1.3 and Mountain Lion to developers.
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Delayed Dropbox update will let users combine home and business accounts next month

Dropbox will release an update next month allowing users to switch from their personal and professional storage spaces using a single account.
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Google account phishing scam hooks users with fake Google Drive login

There's a phishing scam going around that tricks users into giving up their Google login credentials using a fake, but legitimate looking Google login page.
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Avast security exec: ‘Abandoning Windows XP is a big mistake’

Avast Antivirus COO Ondřej Vlček calls ending support for Windows XP 'a big mistake.'
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New Mac Pro gives Windows 7 the heave-ho, won’t run in Boot Camp

The new, high-end Mac Pro offers a lot of bells and whistles, but Windows 7 support in Boot Camp isn't one of them.
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Dropbox buys Zulip, a chat client that’s in private beta

Dropbox now owns Zulip, a private messaging start-up currently in private beta.
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UK banks buying extended Windows XP support from Microsoft for ATMs

The UK's five largest banks join a group of institutions that will pay Microsoft to continue updating Windows XP even after they stop supporting it.
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Cloud down! GChat and Google Drive experience service issues

Google Talk has experienced a service outage today.
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Microsoft unwraps OneNote for Mac OS X, and makes it free to use as well

Microsoft just unveiled OneNote for Mac OS X today, which is free to use.
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Roughly 10 percent of federal government PCs will run Windows XP after support is cut off

Roughly ten percent of federal government PCs will continue to use the aged operating system once the cutoff date for support arrives next month.
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Your favorite browser probably didn’t hold up at this week’s Pwn2Own hackathon

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari weren't safe during the Pwn2Own hacking competition at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
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Asus Duet’s marriage between Google and Microsoft on the rocks

Asus has quietly put their the Transformer Book Duet TD300 on ice after Google and Microsoft both put the brakes on its release.
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Google’s new search layout melds paid ads with real search results

Google's newest tweaks to their search layout could make it more difficult to tell the difference between ads and actual results.
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Google Drive’s new prices make Dropbox, OneDrive seem like ripoffs

Google just announced some dramatic price cuts for their Drive cloud storage service.
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Bright House Networks to become first cable provider to offer 1GB in-home broadband

Bright House Networks, a regional cable provider, will be the first to offer 1GB Internet service to residential customers in the U.S.
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The FAVI Swivel Screen case gives your iPad Air a notebook-esque QWERTY keyboard

Favi's Swivel Screen portfolio case gives your iPad air a physical QWERTY keyboard.
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With these new notebooks, Razer hopes to pretty much own your bank account

Razer just revealed a pair of ridiculously powerful notebooks, but as you might expect, they won't come cheap.
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LaCie Little Big Disk may be the world’s fastest portable hard drive

LaCie claims that its Little Big Disk can transfer data at a record-setting 1.375GBps.
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Maingear’s New Pulse 14 aims to balance power, portability and price

Maingear hopes to give laptop lovers the best of all three worlds: a good price, plenty of power, and a healthy amount of portability.
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Windows XP users should ditch Internet Explorer, says US Dept. of Homeland Security

CERT doesn't really think you should be using XP at all, but if you have to, they want you to at least switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer.
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Apple’s loyalty program just got better for schools and businesses

Apple values their education and business customers more than ever, as they've recently made sweeping improvements to the loyalty program for those groups.
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Intel’s new 800Gbps cables push data faster than ever

Intel is leading the charge to make next-generation cables that can handle the ever-increasing power of our most massive computers.