HP said to be reconsidering PC spin-off

Despite earlier statements by HP that it will not reverse decisions made by its former CEO L�o Apotheker, WSJ now reports that new CEO Meg Whitman is having seconds thoughts about spinning off the PC division.

Quoting "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal reports that "fresh analyses show the costs [of a spin-off] might outweigh the benefits." The Journal says HP is considering scrapping the spin-off route, as a result.

That would leave a sale of the PC business as an alternative�although of course, HP could just as well keep the unit in-house and retain its status as the world's biggest PC vendor. We should find out about HP's strategy for sure later this month. Whitman promised last week to come to a decision before the end of October.

Source: Tech Report

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GeIL EpicGear shows off first hybrid dual sensor mouse

GeIL's new EpicGear gaming brand showed off Meduza, world's first mouse with "hybrid dual sensor technology" (HDST). Pricing and availability is unknown, but the launch should occur pretty soon.

This mouse features what EpicGear is calling the world's first "HDST" and that stands for hybrid dual sensor technology. As you'll see in the pictures, on the back surface of the mouse where you usually see either a laser or optical sensor for tracking, EpicGear include both a laser sensor and an optical sensor. EpicGear says that super fast laser sensor with speeds up to 6000 DPI and the stable optical precision with jitter-free operation leads to an overall much better feel and use than traditional mice.

Source: TweakTown

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Adobe demonstrates motion blur correction technology

PC World reports Adobe has demonstrated a new technology that corrects motion blur. Unfortunately, the YouTube clip of the demonstration is no longer publicly available.

Peter Elst captured a sneak peak of Adobe�s motion blur correction feature when it was demoed at the Adobe MAX 2011 conference. In the demo, an Adobe rep corrected a horribly blurred image by setting some predetermined parameters, analyzing the image for exactly how the camera moved when it blurred the image, and then hitting a "restore" button.

The rep also demonstrated that he could select part of the image to be corrected and that it can bring back unreadable text.

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Tablets with Retina-quality screens to arrive in 2012

X-bit Labs reports next-gen tablets may get screens with a resolution as high as 2048 x 1536 pixels:

Increasing demand for high information content and multimedia capability in mobile devices continues to drive flat panel display resolution to higher levels of pixel density. For example, the next generation of tablets may get screens with 2048*1536 resolution. As a result, the average pixel density of flat panel displays is expected to grow over the next few years.

At present panel makers are developing ultra-high resolutions, such as 2K (2048*1556) or 4K (4096*2160) for TVs and QXGA (2048*1536 pixels) for tablet PCs. According to the latest report from DisplaySearch, the average pixels per inch (PPI) of large-area (over 9.1�) TFT LCDs will increase from 88ppi in 2010 to 98ppi in 2015, while average ppi for small/medium (less than 9.0�) TFT LCDs will grow from 180 to 210 over the same period. Mobile phones are the most obvious driver of increasing ppi due to growth in smart phones, with displays like 3.5� 960*640 resolution (330ppi), 4.3� 800*480 (217ppi) and 1280*800 (330ppi).

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OCZ proclaims success in SSD market

Solid state disks are OCZ's main gig now and according to CEO Ryan Petersen, the company is now one of the largest SSD suppliers on the planet:

"Unlike our publicly traded SSD peers, OCZ was not a purpose built enterprise SSD company. Last year we set out to do what might have seemed improbable if not impossible, transition completely away from [DRAM] business to focus on SSDs while simultaneously growing revenue. Now, we are proud of our progress. [...] Today, we sell more SSDs than just about any other company in the world," said Ryan Petersen, chief executive officer of OCZ, during the most recent conference call.

The company claims that among the companies, who do not have their own NAND flash manufacturing facilities (Samsung, IMFT, etc.), it is among the largest suppliers of solid-state drives among both enterprise and client categories.

Source: X-bit Labs

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DRAM prices flatten in October

X-bit Labs has a report about the DRAM market, you can read it over here.

In spite of seasonality and activities of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) producers to boost pricing of computer memory contract prices on 4GB DDR3 modules remained flat in the first half of October, according to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, market tracking company.

4GB at $10.5, 2Gb at Less than $1
Benefitting from continual inventory replenishment for the holiday season as well as account balancing at the end of the third quarter, DDR3 4GB module contract price stayed almost flat in the first half of October and cost $10.5. The price of a 2Gb chip fell slightly, DRAMeXchange reports.

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Intel X79 to arrive next month

FUD Zilla writes Intel's X79 is slated to arrive in November for $79 a pop.

Intel's high end X79 chipset is going to sell for a saucy $73 when it becomes available in November. Intel's Z68 remains the runner up chipset with $48 while the old X58 is out of the focus.

Since X58 stayed in operation much longer than many expected Intel has decided that X79 is a better codename considering that Sandy Bridge E successor probably won�t ship before earliest Q4 2012.

The $73 price tag is not exactly cheap for a USB 2.0 only chipset but Intel is winning to give you 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports, PCIe 2.0 for graphics and PCIe 3.0 dedicated for storage. Not what top gamers had in mind but what can you do. Naturally the chipset supports 1Gbit internet as well as an SCSI controller.

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