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Kohjinsha’s dual-screen DZ Series laptop now for sale — Engadget

Do want. Remember IBM’s ThinkPad 701 with the butterfly keyboard? This isn’t it, it’s better… conceptually anyway. Instead of two halves of a keyboard magically jigsawing themselves together, Kohjinsha achieves a similar result with its DZ-series using a pair of 10.1-inch TFT displays with 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution (each) packed into an otherwise svelteContinue reading “Kohjinsha’s dual-screen DZ Series laptop now for sale — Engadget”

Saudi Citizen Living In Sugar Land Found Guilty Of Selling Counterfeit Parts To Marine Corps | FortBendNow.com

Man, these really are counterfeit. I thought maybe they just meant “knockoff” imitation parts — you know, like Cysko. Not the case. I wouldn’t look twice, even if I had two of these side-by-side. I’d just chalk up the differences to outsourcing. Ehab Ali Ashoor, 49, a Saudi citizen who resides in Sugar Land, hasContinue reading “Saudi Citizen Living In Sugar Land Found Guilty Of Selling Counterfeit Parts To Marine Corps | FortBendNow.com”

Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook • The Register

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has defaced the MacBook Pro of young fanboi, and his sarcastic scrawling was caught on video. via Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook • The Register.

The myth of the Sony ‘kill switch’

For nearly 20 years Sony in Japan has been plagued by the myth of the “Sony Timer” – but is there really a kill-switch that destroys your device just after its warranty runs out? Many Japanese genuinely believe that there is. via The myth of the Sony ‘kill switch’ – Telegraph.

Google’s Brin And Page To Sell Off Shares; Give Up Majority Voting Power Over Five Years | paidContent

Whoa. This is a big deal. Say goodbye to the coolness as control of Google passes from the founders to the institutional super-rich. I guess maybe they didn’t have the stomach for what “don’t be evil” did to their stock price. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) just put out an SEC filing indicating that co-founders Larry PageContinue reading “Google’s Brin And Page To Sell Off Shares; Give Up Majority Voting Power Over Five Years | paidContent”