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If you’re waiting for Sony’s VAIO refresh, heres something to tide you over while awaiting its release.  The company noted on its blog that its Z, S and E series will have their CPUs upgraded along with other component changes. The C series, meanwhile, will sport the same internals specs-wise but will have changes on its exterior.

Sony made sure its Z series will have all the bells and whistles, and more, making it at par or even abpve its counterparts.

Some notable changes on the Z series are the built-in LTE mobile broadband and the use of 2nd generation Core processors from the Intel Core i5 up to Core i7, making these machines a serious operator. It w

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Online phone retailer Clove has detailed the pre-order plans for the white Motorola RAZR. It will be selling the pasty handset for 430.80, contract free, from next month but you can put your order in now. You’ll get a pair of folding speakers, worth 20, thrown in as well.

Prior to CES and the efforts of Huawei and Fujitsu, the RAZR was said to be the “world’s thinnest smartphone”. It boasts gorilla glass and it is the first smartphone from the company to feature Motorola splash-guard; a nanotechnology coating in order to protect it from water spills and the like.

It runs Android 2.3.5 and is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor with 1GB of RAM.

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ExCaliberPC has begun taking pre-orders for ASUS upcoming Cedar Trail netbook, the Eee PC X101CH Seashell. This mini laptop retails for $269. Specs-wise, the Eee PC X101CH Seashell offers a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED-backlight display, a 1.60GHz Intel Atom N2600 processor, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a webcam, a card reader, WiFi, a 3-cell battery and runs on Windows 7 Starter OS.

Carrier IQ has released a 19-page document defending its diagnostic services, recently shown to collect sensitive data from some phones.

The saga of Carrier IQ and its questionable data gathering antics continues today, as the company has released a document providing an insight into its practices.

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