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The Government’s newly released tender for a whole-of-government PC hardware provider panel holds some surprises, according to industry pundits.

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Government tenders for centralised desktop hardware procurement (ARNnet)

New Restoration Hardware Vintgage semiflush pendant 14.5″ New Restoration Hardware Vintage Semi-Flushmount 14.5″ polished nickel Built of solid brass Italian-made milkglass shade 60W max. 14-1/2″. …

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Restoration Hardware Clemson Mini Pendant S/3, Find Home & House …

The staff at Fairfax Hardware realized the depth of the economic downturn when customers began returning individual 29-cent screws for refunds. The result: After a 70-year run as a neighborhood retail institution in east Denver, the hardware store is shutting down. It wasn’t so much the erosion of business to Home Depot and other big home-improvement stores

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Hard times shuttering hardware stores nationwide (Vail Daily)

Yesterday we mentioned the Woot! sale of the Didj, and we had some comments and emails from readers who had purchased one. We couldn’t resist either, and ordered a couple to take apart and modify. We will probably be following the work laid out by [ Claude Schwarz ], who seems to be one of the leading hackers on the scene

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Leapfrog Didj: Followup

The National Hardware Show will be held on May 4-6, 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and celebrates a rich history spanning 65 years of serving the home improvement marketplace.

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National Hardware Show May 4-6, 2010 in Las Vegas (BuildingOnline)

Chelsea Wastewater Treatment Plant Director Brad Roberts requested that the city council approve the purchase of new utility reader hardware from Indiana-based United Systems.

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Council upgrades meter hardware (The Chelsea Standard)

It’s pretty creative to use a 9v battery as an enclosure. That’s what [Osgeld] did when building this amplifier . There are several advantages; they’re easy to find, it keeps a bit of the dead battery out of the landfill, and this method provides a built-in connector for a 9v power source.

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Amplifier built inside a 9v battery

SACKETS HARBOR, N.Y. — Hackett’s Stores, Inc

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Hackett’s Stores, Inc. Subsidiary, Patrick Hackett Hardware Company, Flagship Store Has Best January Sales in Four Years (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo!…

The DEVA platform allows electronics and software engineers to rapidly prototype and test accessory products that deliver new features for users before committing to final product hardware . By accessing the full power of the …

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Embedded Hardware and Software industry news: Cambridge …

The US$130 surcharge for 3G capability may be subsidy for lowest-priced $499 models, according to a hardware expert with Michigan-based Rapid Repair. Find out why he says the 3G model is overpriced – Page 1.

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3G iPad pricing 'ridiculous,' says hardware guru – Page 1 – Voice …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—-ExaGrid Systems, Inc. , the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that its EX10000E Disk Backup with Deduplication System has been named the Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware “2009 Product of the Year” by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com.

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ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication System Named Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware "Product of the Year" by … (Business Wire via…

Apple’s latest Mac Pro, jammed with multicore Nehalem-based Xeon processors, is designed to be a computing beast with power to spare for the most demanding tasks. Since the current Mac Pros became available in October of 2009, though, numerous users have reported a glitch, which appears to be related to audio processing, that causes those Xeons to run much hotter than expected.

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Nehalem Mac Pros take 20% performance hit when playing audio

Windows 7 users are up in arms over a long-standing battery charge problem. Their batteries are dying prematurely, and they’re blaming Windows 7, which is popping up the message, “Consider replacing your battery

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Windows 7 "Consider replacing your battery" error: class action?

Fairfax Hardware in east Denver is one of dozens of independent hardware stores nationwide forced to close — not from competition, but from the slumping economy that has caused sales to plummet.

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Hard times shuttering hardware stores nationwide (Denver Post)

Open-Xchange, an open source groupware provider, announces a ready-to-run version pre-configured on hardware as an easy replacement for Microsoft Exchange at small- and medium-size businesses. read more

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E-mail Hardware Appliance Available Ready-to-Run for Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises (SYS-CON Media)

NUREMBERG, Germany, February 2, 2010 – Open-Xchange will offer its e-mail and groupware in cooperation with hardware manufacturer Pyramid as pre-configured and ready-to-run appliances for up to either 50 users or 300.

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E-mail Hardware Appliance Available Ready-to-Run for Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises (dBusinessNews.com)

President Barack Obama’s administration is cutting NASA’s moon mission funding. His budget plan for reducing the deficit kills the Constellation, Ares, and Orion programs, but opens the door to private enterprise. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers wonder what it all means.

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Barack Obama plan kills moon funding; NASA Constellation, Ares, Orion: RIP

Update: NVIDIA has confirmed that the Twitter account is indeed theirs, so this information is official. With a skeptical eye towards Twitter, a post was made on the NVIDIAGeForce account 4 hours ago announcing the names of the first two GF100 cards. As we’re largely sure this is a legitimate NVIDIA account we’re going to go ahead and post this information, but please keep in mind that we have not yet been able to confirm that this is indeed an official NVIDIA posting (it’s 10PM on the West Coast).

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GF100 Cards Finally Named: GTX 480 & GTX 470

Extreme Hardware Makeover is a new video to show drummers how they can customize their drum kits using Gibraltar’s endless hardware options for drum customization.

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Gibraltar’s Extreme Hardware Makeover Video (pt.1)

Today our good friends over at Woot! are selling the Leapfrog Didj, a low cost educational toy aimed at little kids. Lucky for hackers out there, the Didj is actually a linux device , and gaining serial console access is as easy as soldering two wires .

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Leapfrog Didj: Handheld Linux on the Cheap