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Corsair, a top manufacturer of PC gaming components, have announced a new line of Vengeance laptop memory kits for laptops equipped with 2nd-gen Intel i5 and i7 processors.

The new memory does not require any BIOS adjustments to take advantage of the quicker speeds and are designed to work with any PC or notebook that takes DDR3 SODIMMs. 

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SAN FRANCISCO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TapBuy, a new quick-checkout technology that developers, shopping aggregators and retailers can imbed in their own mobile apps, is now available. TapBuy dramatically increases conversion rates because it stores shoppers’ billing and shipping preferences, which then allows consumers to check out from any supported app from any supported merchant with just a few taps. TheFind has already licensed TapBuy and launched it in the company’s iPhone comparison shopping app.

In early trials, TapBuy increased sales conversion for retailers up to 15 times. A Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) is available for licensees.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Intel will not let a good crisis go to waste.

The company, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, announced on Monday that its revenue this quarter would fall to $13.7 billion, from $14.7 billion, because floods in Thailand had sharply cut the world’s supply of disk drives. Without the drives, manufacturers will make fewer personal computers and computer servers, which means fewer semiconductors will be needed.

While clearly bad news for Intel in the short run, the shortage of both components and finished personal computers could prove an opportunity for Intel as it tries to fight the onslaught of tablet computers, particularly Apple’s.

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Apple is reportedly going to use part of its enormous pile of cash to buy an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that specializes in flash storage solutions. Calcalist reports – in Hebrew – that the world’s most valuable company is in talks to buy Herzliya Pituach, Israel-based Anobit for $400 million to $500 million.

If the report checks out, this would mark Apple’s first acquisition in Israel (and the first with Tim Cookat the helm as CEO), and also a rare occasion because the consumer electronics giant doesn’t usually buy non-software companies. The only hardware companies Apple is known to have acquired in the past two decades were Steve Jobs-founded NeXT, Raycer Graphics, Intrinsity and P.A. Semi.

Anobit provides flash storage solutions for enterprise and mobile markets, based on its proprietaryMSP (which stands for ‘Memory Signal Processing’) technology. Its solutions are designed to improve the speed, endurance and performance of flash storage systems while driving down the cost.

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The Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati's Eden Park has long been a favored place to get in touch with nature. The historic conservatory, with its signature greenhouses, may have just celebrated its 75th year, but is keeping up with the times, reports Soapbox.

Now visitors can stroll through the Krohn's exotic and colorful plant collections with their iPods or other MPEG-4 compatible device for a personal learning tour.

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