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The Vote Is In: Barbie® Unveils Her 125th and 126th Careers

Friday, August 5th, 2011

For the ?rst time ever, Barbie® asked the world to help her select her next career. Over the past few months Barbie® did research around the world and also conducted an online voting campaign, calling upon the world to vote for her dolls next career Barbie® has asked her Twitter followers and fans on facebook to help her with this important career decision. But thats not all! Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders. All the girls who imagine their futures through Barbie will learn that engineers — like girls — are free to explore in?nite possibilities, limited only by their imagination, says Nora Lin, President, Society of Women Engineers. As a computer engineer, Barbie will show girls that women can turn their ideas into realities that have a direct and positive impact on peoples everyday lives in this exciting and rewarding career. To create an authentic look, Barbie® designers worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering to develop the wardrobe and accessories for Computer Engineer Barbie®. Wearing a binary code patterned tee and equipped with all the latest gadgets including a smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and laptop travel bag, Computer Engineer Barbie® is geek chic
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Ed Boyd, walks you through the design of Dell’s XPS 15z laptop which launched in the United States and several countries around the world on May 24, 2011.

Apple unveils new super-slim Air laptop computer Steve Jobs

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

MovieLessons.com Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop at the Macworld trade show on Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it’s opened. Jobs also confirmed the consumer electronics company’s foray into online movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer films over high-speed Internet connections within 30 days after they’re released on DVD. Always a showman, Jobs unwound the string on a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out the ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter from fans at the conference. At its beefiest, the new computer is 0.76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it’s 0.16 inches, he said. It comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade. The machine doesn’t come with a built-in optical drive for reading CDs and DVDs, a feature Jobs says consumers won’t miss because they can download movies and music over the Internet and access the optical drives on other PCs and Macs to install new software. They can buy an external drive, however, that will retail for . Trading in Apple stock was heavy Tuesday, the first day of the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. It fell 5.52 percent to 8.91 at midday. The new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost 99 when it goes on sale in two
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When a laptop computer overheats, it can possibly turn off without any notice, causing lost information; it can also cause the processor memory to pop out and turn off. Allow a laptop room to vent heat from the battery by using a cooling unit attached to the bottom of the computer with information from a certified computer technician in this free video on laptop computers. Expert: Jonathan Ayres Bio: Jonathan Ayres has more than 25 years of computer industry experience with all types of computer hardware and operating systems. Filmmaker: Todd Green
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