Chris Fenton follows up scale model Cray-1A with 3D-printed electromechanical computer, of course

Fans of the homebrew electronics scene may well be familiar with the name Chris Fenton, he of the DIY laptop and a working scale model of the Cray-1A supercomputer. Now he's back with yet another ambitious project: he's set out to build a fully functional electromechanical computer using a 3D printer to fabricate all the parts. That's still a ways from being completed, but Fenton has already finished one key component of it: the punch card reader.

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Samsung Series 7 Gamer laptop goes on sale in the US for $1,900

Who could forget that marigold yellow gaming laptop sitting around Samsung's booth at CES. Though the Series 7 Gamer has been available in Europe since last fall, the company decided to wait until Intel made its big Ivy Bridge reveal to introduce its first gaming laptop here in the states. Now that those chips are starting to ship, the Series 7 Gamer is at last on sale here in the US, available in a single configuration that'll set you back $1,900. (Sorry, folks, it will only be sold in black.) Though that price is slightly higher than the estimate we heard four months ago, the specs are also beefier than we were expecting.

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More games will be headed onto the Blackberry Playbook

So the Blackberry Playbook recently got their hands on some pretty interesting games such as Angry Birds Space and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Will those games be enough to entice users to purchase the Playbook or to convince existing users to keep using it. While that remains to be seen, RIM's Anders Jeppsson has revealed today via his Twitter account that there are plenty of games that will be headed onto the Playbook in the near future.

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BlackBerry 10 dev alpha unit unveiled: 4.2-inch screen, 1280 x 768 resolution

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. In this instance, it just leaves us wanting more. The image you see above is RIM's official dev unit for its just launched BlackBerry 10 platform. If it looks familiar, that's because you've seen it not too long ago when leaks of the much anticipated device began to hit the world wide rumor-mongering web.

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IPTV - Subscribers Up in a Competitive Market

According to leading broadband analyst firm Point Topic, global IPTV subscriptions closed in on 60 million at the end of 2011, with the last yearly quarter witnessing the biggest three month increase in subscribers yet.“The year end is often the strong quarter but in combination with the global recovery in consumer spending and the will and technical ability to deliver a service, IPTV is really starting to find the sweet spot,” comments Oliver Johnson, CEO of Point Topic.“In addition we’ve seen a growth in the Average Revenue per User (ARPU) the operators have managed to generate.” These figur

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Adax Announces ATM5-PCIe Board and Software for Signaling and ATM-IP Interworking

Advanced PCIe communications controller with unbeatable performance for flexible gateway interworking, internet offload and intelligent backhaul applications on Rack Mount Servers.May 1st, 2012, Oakland CA – Adax (www.adax.com), an industry leader in high-performance packet-processing, security and network infrastructure, is pleased to announce the availability of the ATM5-PCIe broadband communication controller.

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IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, recognise Rise

- Hosted services provider shortlisted for Service Provider of the Year - Rise, a leading provider of hosted services, has today announced that it has been shortlisted in the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, in recognition of its commitment to supporting its channel partners in the delivery of hosted and Cloud based IT solutions. For more than a decade, Rise has been providing over 500,000 customers across Europe and further afield with web hosting services and DataCenter on Demand™ (DCoD) capabilities, generating over 40 million emails and establishing five billion megabytes of data storage between them.

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