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Turns out we won’t be waiting long: today Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X301, a component refresh to its popular 13.3-inch laptop. The new version will incorporate an ultra-low-voltage Core 2 Duo processor that’s expected to be unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum this week. The ThinkPad X301 will also come equipped with DDR3 RAM, which (combined with the new processor technology) will make it “20 percent more powerful than the X300,” according to the company.

Other enhancements include support for DisplayPort video output, a 128GB solid-state drive option (available in September), and, later this year, WiMax connectivity.

Pricing for the ThinkPad X301 starts at $2,599, and systems will be available from Lenovo beginning August 26.

Source: CNET Networks

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XDE, or extended detail enhancement, will be in Toshiba’s new XD-E500 DVD player, which will ship this month. The player will be priced at $150, about twice as much as regular “up-converting” players.

Toshiba claims the higher price is justified because XDE takes DVD picture quality to a higher level, but not quite as high as Sony’s Blu-ray high-definition format.

Toshiba had tried to rally the industry around the HD DVD format as a better choice than Blu-ray. The latter, however, gained broader support from movie studios, prompting Toshiba to stop making HD DVD players this year.

XDE raises the level of standard-definition TV, which has a display resolution of 640 by 480 pixels, to a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, which is often referred to as full high definition, according to Toshiba.

As a result, the edges of images are sharper, which means there’s less blurring on large screens. Also, colors are more vivid and the contrast is sharper, according to Toshiba.

In releasing XDE, Toshiba apparently is looking to take advantage of people’s lukewarm response to Blu-ray, which has gained most of its market traction to date through its use in Sony’s popular PlayStation 3 video game console.

Average consumers are satisfied with their cheaper standard DVD players and are not willing to pay more to switch to a Blu-ray player, which in many cases would require buying a TV that supports HD content, according to a recent study conducted by ABI Research.

With people sticking to standard DVDs, Toshiba sees a market opportunity.

“Toshiba is delivering to consumers what they want — a high-quality experience at an affordable price,” Louis Masses, director of product planning for Toshiba, said in a statement.

Toshiba plans to promote its new technology in an extensive print and online advertising campaign, starting with ads on the NBCOlympics.com Web site. The company also has launched a Web site dedicated to promoting XDE.

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Both scored 16.725, but He got the nod because her execution marks were closer to a perfect 10 than Liukin’s.

Liukin would not criticize the scoring system that does not award dual gold medals.

“It’s nothing I can control, and honestly, I can say it has been very fair to me, and I got the biggest gold medal of them all,” said Liukin, winner of the women’s all-around gymnastics gold.

He, at the center of an age-eligibility controversy throughout the games, was fast and furious on the bars. Her twists and flips went by in the blink of an eye, and she won by about that short a margin.

Liukin, who sat stone-faced for much of the competition, now has four medals, two of them silver.

“I’ve tied my dad,” she said of Valeri Liukin, who also is her coach and competed for the Soviet Union. “I’m a little sad, but at the same time, it’s great to have four Olympic medals.”

Monday’s bronze went to China’s Yang Yilin, her third medal, including bronze in the all-around.

U.S. women have won six medals here; China’s women have five, including team gold. ap

After Birgit Prinz gave world champion Germany a 10th-minute lead—becoming the first player to score in all four Olympics since the introduction of women’s soccer—the Brazilians hit back with goals from Cristiane, Formiga and Marta. Germany had not conceded in 10 previous games in major championships.

In Thursday’s final in Beijing, Brazil will face either defending champion United States or Japan, which meet later Monday. Four years ago, Brazil lost to the Americans in the final.

A blunder by Brazil defender Erika gifted Germany the opening goal. She lost control only 30 meters from her own goal and Prinz was left with just goalkeeper Barbara to beat.

Instead of shooting, Prinz dribbled around the goalkeeper before sweeping the ball into the net with her left foot.

It was almost 2-0 two minutes later after Simone gave the ball away, but Melanie Behringer shot wide and Barbara also made a good save from Anja Mittag after Prinz had put her co-striker clear.

The Brazilians responded with some attractive moves that brought a series of chances at the other end and an equalizer two minutes before halftime.

There seemed no danger until Cristiane cleverly dribbled past a defender near the left corner flag and pulled the ball back. Marta mis-hit her attempted shot but the ball rolled to Formiga who drove it past goalkeeper Nadine Angerer from 18 meters.

A minute later Brazil almost went ahead when Marta’s 25-meter shot was tipped over the bar by Angerer.

The Brazilians’ second goal in the 49th minute came from a breakaway after they cleared a corner.

Two German defenders were left exposed to deal with Marta and two players who charged upfield to support her. She drew both the Germans toward her and then found the unmarked Cristiane to almost casually slip the ball past Angerer.

It was 3-1 four minutes later when Marta picked up the ball wide on the right, pushed it past two German defenders and, instead of trying to find a teammate, beat Angerer from an acute angle inside the far post.

Cristiane’s second goal in the 76th was all her own work.

She collected the ball 30 meters out, dribbled past one defender, ran between two more and left a fourth behind before sliding the ball past Angerer from 12 meters.

It should have been five when Marta weaved past two defenders and set up an easy chance for Francielle, who shot across the face of the goal.

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Lhadon Thetong, executive director for Students for a Free Tibet, said the protesters draped themselves in Tibetan flags and lay down in the square on Saturday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if they were stopped by authorities.

The action came a day after three Americans from the group were detained while displaying Tibetan flags near the entrance to the National Stadium, where the opening ceremony for the games were held.ap

A sign at the entrance of the bazaar in Urumqi did not explain why the area, surrounded by mosques with minarets, was off limits as the country prepared to kick off the Summer Games thousands of miles away in Beijing.

Even a KFC restaurant in the shopping area—filled with touristy shops selling carpets and jade—was closed, and a guard sitting on the steps shooed people away.

The sprawling, far-flung western region of Xinjiang has long been a source of trouble for China’s communist government. The rugged, mineral-rich territory is populated by the Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority that has had tense relations with the Chinese. Many Uighurs favor independence or greater autonomy for Xinjiang, which takes up one-sixth of China’s land mass and borders eight Central Asian countries.

On Thursday, a videotape purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party—a militant group seeking Xinjiang independence—was released with threats to launch attacks during the Olympics.

“Choose your side,” says the videotape’s speaker, grasping a rifle and dressed in a black turban and camouflage with his face masked.

“Do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings or any place the Chinese are,” he warns Muslims, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. operation that monitors militant organizations.

The Turkistan Islamic Party is believed to be based across the border in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have received training from al-Qaeda.

Last month, the militant group issued videotaped threats and claimed responsibility for a series of bus bombings in China in recent months. The latest video features graphics similar to ones used earlier: a burning Olympics logo and an explosion imposed over an apparent Olympic venue.

The new video claims the communist regime’s alleged mistreatment of Muslims justifies holy war. It accuses China of forcing Muslims into atheism by capturing and killing Islamic teachers and destroying Islamic schools, according to the SITE. It also says China’s birth control program has forced abortions on Muslim women.

“I think what they’re doing is they’re trying to capitalize on the buildup to the games,” said Ben Venzke of the Washington-based IntelCenter, which provides counterterrorism intelligence to U.S. government agencies.

Venzke said Friday that his group believes that based on the militant group’s demonstrated ability to conduct bombings “and the apparent opportunity TIP believes the Olympic Games presents in terms of targeting and striking a blow to China, that the threat is credible and should be taken seriously.”

He said the release of a five-page written threat, in conjunction with two videos over the last three months by the group “is indicative of an orchestrated campaign designed to fulfill jihadists belief that they should provide warning before launching a significant attack.”

More than 100,000 soldiers and police are guarding Beijing and other Olympic co-host cities. Terrorism experts say the heavy security presence would likely force attackers to target less-protected areas.

Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square was mostly closed off to visitors much of Friday as Chinese President Hu Jintao hosted world leaders at a luncheon banquet at the Great Hall of the People ahead of the opening ceremonies.

“I think the actual Olympics themselves, the venues, the guests, the athletes, are going to be safe,” said Drew Thompson, director of China studies at the Nixon Center in Washington. “I would not be an alarmist.”

Thompson said the Uighur groups haven’t demonstrated they have the capacity to attack Beijing or other host cities during the games.

On Monday, assailants killed 16 border police and wounded 16 others in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar when they rammed a stolen truck into the group before tossing homemade bombs and stabbing them. Chinese authorities called the raid a terrorist attack and said they had arrested two men who are Uighurs.

Authorities have called the men terrorists, but officials have released no evidence linking them to a specific group.

Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, has been on high alert. Security guards were checking bags at the entrances of hotels, department stores and discos in the busy city, which unlike other Xinjiang cities is predominantly Han Chinese—the nation’s largest ethnic group. In the past 50 years, Han Chinese have been flooding into the region, creating another sore point with the Uighurs.

By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer
Associated Press writers Gillian Wong in Beijing and Carley Petesch in New York contributed to this report.