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Shadow Market Keeps Computer Components Flowing

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 28, 2011. Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.  It was 3:30 a.m. California time and Prophet hopped on the [...]

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Tablet-Notebook Hybrids Arrive

by Peter Kastner on March 31, 2011 in Mobile Technology

A mule is the hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The West was won with these strong pack animals. We’re beginning to see hybrids combining the DNA of the tablet, notebook, and netbook. I like this idea. The photo below depicts the new Asus Eee Pad, announced at CES. This new tablet hybrid [...]

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This Ain’t Yer Grandpaw’s nVidia

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post first appeared on Forbes.com March 14, 2011. Jen-Hsun Huang held forth in his usual manner last week before an audience of industry analysts at nVidia headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the [...]

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