Japanese electronics company Toshiba scaled back its consumer PC business a few years ago, and now a report from Japanese news organization Nikkei suggests that Toshiba is looking to sell off its PC division altogether… possibly to Asus or Lenovo. Toshiba denies that it’s in talks to sell its PC business. But it would hardly […]
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RadioShack bankruptcy: Sprint will take over some stores, others will close
As expected, RadioShack has filed for bankruptcy. The US electronics retailer currently has about 4,000 stores, but the company plans to close more than half of them and liquidate its assets. But some locations could live on, thanks to a deal with Sprint and hedge fund Standard General. Last year Standard General led a group […]
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Amazon launches electronics trade-in store, gives credit for used gadgets
Amazon has expanded its trade-in program to include electronics. Customers could already trade-in DVDs, textbooks and other items for credit toward future Amazon purchases. Now you can also send in used tablets, smartphones, and other device. You can get up to $143 for a current generation iPod touch, up to $497 for an iPad 2 and […]
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HP memristors could replace DRAM, flash in a few years
HP researchers say the company could begin commercial production of memory resistors (memristors) by mid-2013, providing an alternative to today’s DRAM and flash memory. The company built the first prototype memristor a few years ago, but scientists had predicted the possibility of memristors in the 1970s. The memristor is an electronic component that takes its […]