We’ve seen laptops and monitors with Nvidia 3D Vision technology before, but this is the first all-in-one we’ve come across with a screen capable of displaying games, movies and pictures in glorious 3D.

It isn’t as elegant as we’d like: the transmitter that synchronizes the images with the included active shutter glasses isn’t embedded in the chassis, but has to be connected via USB. You get everything you need to get started, though, and the 3D effect works well.

We’re less keen on the 24in panel. Detail is good and there’s no backlight bleed, but colours are oversaturated. We prefer the

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Research In Motion didnt waste any time implementing that “cost-optimization program” it announced while reporting earnings last week. The company began sacking employees at its Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters today. Its not yet clear how broad these initial cuts are, but various media reports put the number at about 200.

RIM declined comment on the news Tuesday, but the move comes just days after it announced plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of what co-CEO Jim Balsillie euphemistically described as a streamlining.

I wouldn’t call this a reorganization or a restructuring, he said last week. If we

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Bookstore Barnes & Noble(BKS) is expected to report a fourth-quarter loss of 91 cents a share before the markets open on Tuesday. Shares were popping 7.3% to $21.60.

Natural gas producer EnCana(ECA) saw its shares tumble 3.7% to $29 after announcing that it and PetroChina(PTR) ended talks for a proposed joint venture regarding Encana’s Cutbank Ridge assets after being unable to reach an agreement.

Nokia(NOK), the Finnish mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it plans to launch its first Windows-based smartphones later in 2011. Shares were rising 2.1% to $5.97. Read more…

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Fujitsu recently unveiled a supercomputer built for Japan that is so powerful, it outranks its nearest five competitors on the supercomputer list…put together.  Intel seems a little put off by all of the news, and threw out some damage control by claiming to prepare for exascale computing in less than seven years.

Before we get there, let’s take a refresher in metric (S.I.) prefixes!

Prefix Symbol Decimal yotta Y 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 zetta Z 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 eta E 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 peta P 1 000 000 000 000 000 tera T 1 000 000 000 000 giga G 1 000 000 000 mega M 1 000 000 kilo k 1 000 hecto h 100 deca da 10

So, as you might expect, a supercomputer that starts ranking in exaFLOPS (FLOPS = floating point operations per second; it’s a number used to gauge the raw computational ability of a machine) is one heck of a capable box. T

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Droid 2 Global users, your moment in the Gingerbread sun has arrived. Verizon’s put up a page with download instructions for a 103MB update, taking your QWERTY slider from version 2.4.330 to 4.5.600. Updating isn’t the most taxing of activities, you just look for a system update in the About Phone menu and then give your blessing for the download to commence. VZW will also be prompting tardy users to take their OTA medicine in due course. So what’s new apart from Android 2.3? Well, the big change is that the previously static phone, contacts and apps icons at the bottom of the UI have now been turned into a user-customizable dock, with three links of your choosing sidling up next to the App Launcher. Read more…

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We are still just under a year before E3 2012 will start in Los Angeles but already the rumors have already started about what will be revealed in Los Angeles on June 5-7 2012. Videogamer.com has posted up a story via unnamed sources that claims Microsoft plans to debut its successor to the Xbox 360 game console with the next 12 months which would be perfect timing for a reveal during E3 2012.

The story claims it got this info from an inside source at game developer Crytek who also claims that the developer is making the upcoming first person shooter sequel Timesplitters 4 as a launch title for Microsoft’s next console (Crytek acquired the UK-based developer Free Radical who created the first three games in the Timesplitters series).

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