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Antec said Tuesday that it is launching a series of standardized components for small channel vendors and system builders, with an eye toward true "whitebook" notebooks that could be built by just about anybody.

Intel plans to ship a 120-Gbyte 2.5-inch solid-state disc drive (SSD)in a month's time, company executives plan to announce at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday.

Comfort, precision, and a boatload of features--all of this and more make up Logitech's newest performance mouse.

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上网电价昨日再次上调，而神奇的外资投行花旗也成为“政策先知”。在其昨天早晨将“中国上调上网电价5％”这一判断的时间点推进至本月后，昨日傍晚国家发改委发出了调价通知：自今天起，将全国火力发电企业上网电价平均每千瓦时提高2分钱，销售电价暂不调整。分析人士认为，虽然调价已在预期中，但由于时间提早了，因此相...

众多曾求助民间高利贷来解决资金危机的温州中小企业主或许正在后悔当初的决定，由于无法偿还因民间高利贷所欠下的债务，温州中小企业经营者正处在官司缠身的尴尬境地，甚至频频遭遇暴力索债或非法拘禁等犯罪行为。昨日，温州永嘉法院对外宣传负责人蒋忠克对《每日经济新闻》表示，今年前7月，该院受理的民间借贷纠纷案几乎...

Anti-Globalism recommends a posting up at O'Reilly's ONLamp on reasons that some companies are turning away from Perl. "[In one company] [m]anagement have started to refer to Perl-based systems as 'legacy' and to generally disparage it. This attitude has seeped through to non-technical business users who have started to worry if developers mention a system that is written in Perl. Business users, of course, don't want nasty old, broken Perl code. They want the shiny new technologies.

coondoggie writes "In the ongoing battle to let us eat dinner in peace without being interrupted by amazingly annoying telemarketer blather, and in this case the even more infuriating recorded telemarketing drivel, the Federal Trade Commission today basically outlawed recorded telemarketing calls. Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller.