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HP has announced its new Spectre laptop, proclaiming it to be the world’s thinnest 13.3-inch notebook yet produced. By incorporating the latest innovations, HP has made the machine just 10.4 mm thin and at 1.10 kilograms (2.45 lbs), it is also one of the very lightest in its class. CNC-machined anodized aluminium, combined with carbon...

AOPEN’s Chromebox Commercial and Chromebase Commercial devices for digital signage solutions are ideal for use in schools, hospitals or public spaces.  Built to last and run 24/7, both devices provide robust, reliable, secure and affordable platforms for signage, kiosk and POS applications. At only 25mm high, the AOPEN ChromeBox it will fit behind displays using...

Interest in Samsung’s Gear VR is starting to accelerate. Several educational and gaming apps are already available, including The Body VR, an immersive and educational tour through the human body, the Titans of Space virtual journey around the solar system, and House of Languages for English, German and Spanish. The Samsung Gear VR has a...

Educational institutions are expected to invest strongly in IT this summer as they look to get classrooms and infrastructure up to speed ahead of the next full school year. With continued uncertainty over funding and further dialogue over the government’s plans for schools yet to take place, institutions will be looking to make the best...

Until May 2017, Epson is offering a 60-day money-back guarantee on its WorkForce Pro range of inkjet printers, which are very popular in the public sector due to their fast output and paper, energy and waste-saving qualities. The Workforce Pro range of business-class devices provides a genuine alternative to laser printers. They make use of...

The deadline for users to upgrade legacy versions of AutoCAD has now passed, so any customer now wanting to take advantage of the market-leading 2D drawing and design solution will now need to purchase a full subscription to the product. This however, is an attractively-priced at £285 per annum and represents great value, which makes...

Wearables unit shipments grew 171.6% in 2015 over 2014 and by 126.9% in Q4 last year compared to Q4 2014, according to figures from IDC. In the last three months of 2015, 27.4 million wearable devices were shipped in Q4 with 78 million sold over the year. Continued innovation will be needed to keep the...

PNY has launched a new, Nvidia GTX 950-based graphics card that will really get gamers excited. The GeForce GTX 950 2GB XLR8 OC GAMING card has a base clock speed of 1152 MHz and a boost clock speed of 1342 MHz and comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory running a 7.2 GBps. This translates into...

WD is now shipping the much-anticipated 6TB Red Pro drive for NAXS boxes and has also announced the immediate availability of the Black 1TB Mobile 2.5-inch drive. Designed specifically with SMB customers in mind, the WD Red Pro is available for up to 16 bay medium to large-scale NAS environments. Ideal for intensive file sharing,...

Organisations can now take advantage of the easylease 0% finance scheme to acquire Cisco systems and networking solutions. According to an industry survey, 73% of customers look to solve the ‘how-to-fund’ question early in the process, before pricing or seeking quotations (Forrester, Financing in the Current Macroeconomic Environment Findings from France, Germany, UK, March 2014). Cisco has...

Despite a decline of around 10% in PC shipments across the EMEA region – to 19.5 million units – in the first quarter of 2016, analyst firm Gartner said that sales remained stable in the UK and in Germany. In France they declined due to the transition to high-definition TV. Garter provided some optimism for...

Email impersonation attacks (also known as CEO fraud, or whaling attacks) are a growing concern for organisations of any size. These scams have led to more than $2.3billion in losses over the last three years. There is a very real danger that these attacks will at some point hit your customers. The new E-Book, Whaling:...