Panasonic debuted its 3D TV offering to the press at Pana HQ this morning. The company has decided to restrict its 3D offering to plasma panels only, with three new 50, 54 and 65-inch models due in shops by June.

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Sony's new flagship Vaio Z runs Quad SSD in a RAID 0 configuration and couples that with a Core i7 CPU and a dynamic hybrid graphics system that lets you swap between the CPU's graphics chipset and an nVidia GeForce GT330M graphics card.

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New Applications for iPad, iPhone and Android are designed to give Norton 360 and Norton Online Backup users access to their files anywhere.

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Now that Apple has revealed all of the iPad, we can finally discard all the wishful rumors that surrounded the tablet's launch. It's time to hold the tech press -- ourselves included, of course -- accountable for all sorts of iPad hopes, dreams and miscalculations.

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Fatal System Error is a true-life tale of how US mobsters and Russian gangsters have exploited the internet and the web over the past decade to rake in the money.

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Lenovo today announced the New Zealand launch of two new Windows 7-capable laptops aimed at small business users.

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HDMI Consortium is preparing to add 3D support to its latest 1.4 specification, which could bring 3D gaming and movie watching to high-definition TVs.

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Asus showed a bit of style on Wednesday, skinning a netbook with faux alligator hide and outfitting a new premium widescreen laptop with dual touchpads and big Bang & Olufsen speakers.

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Klipsch has developed a device that combines a wireless speaker and LED light and installs into most standard light sockets. Called the LightSpeaker, it uses a base station transmitter to stream music to each unit, up to 15 metres away, using 2.4GHz wireless technology.

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LG Display has developed a prototype LCD panel for television sets that's less than a quarter the thickness of the company's current production panels. The new screen could enable TV set makers to produce even thinner flat-panel sets but there are no current plans for mass production.

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