admin @ February 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Will the laptop and smart phone converge in the future? Nokia is lending more credence to that idea, with the company’s comments yesterday that it may develop its own laptop. In an interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said his company was “looking very actively” at the laptop market. ??
The laptop business [...]
admin @ February 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I travel a lot. And if you?re a geek like me, you can?t go a full day sans internet access without experiencing some severe withdrawal symptoms. Luckily, my iPhone, with all its WiFi and 3G goodness, has been instrumental in feeding my addiction while on the road. But though Apple?s smartphone provides the best mobile [...]
admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Ask any DJ about the industry-standard tools of the trade, and it’s still a pair of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company’s high-end hi-fi turntables from the early 70s, repurposed as club decks in the disco era and known to all as the Technics SL-1200s or 1210s.
Vinyl offers hands-on control, and because the traditional setup [...]
admin @ December 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Mobile telecoms companies are now pushing “mobile broadband” in the form of a connection that uses the 3G mobile phone networks. While the bandwidth available can be variable, you don’t need massive bandwidth for most tasks, as long as it has sufficient throughput for the main business tasks: email, Facebook and YouTube.
That leaves us [...]
admin @ December 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Due to their compact size and complex design, laptops don’t lend themselves to upgrades quite as easily as towers.
This is especially true of Apple laptops, which have always been thinner and far more stylish than a typical, chunky PC portable.
The flip side of their graceful design is that you can’t pull them to [...]
admin @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We all know the feeling; you need to finish some work on the train but your battery has but seconds left and the charger is still on your desk. So how can you avoid it?
Logic will tell you that playing games or watching DVDs on your laptop might just be a slight drain on its [...]
admin @ September 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whatever happened to the $100 laptop? It became the $75, one watt laptop, that’s what. Ever since Intel ended its involvement in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, the whole idea seemed to have gone quiet. So we thought we’d get in touch with the organisation to find out what’s happening – and whether [...]
admin @ September 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Laptops are now a commodity item. A fully featured notebook for £299? Windows Vista Home Premium may not be common, but most £299 machines are extremely capable, with 1GB of memory and reasonable hard-drive sizes in many cases.
So how do they do it? And can prices get any lower? Shahid Azeem, Managing Director of ArcomIT, [...]
admin @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Gadget: Kangaroom’s laptop stand and charging station, which offers a ventilated laptop stand as well as two phone/iPod holders so you can have a place to charge your gear without cluttering up your desk. It’s even tilted, since many laptop users enjoy typing at an angle.
The Price: $45
The Verdict: We’ve been fans of Kangaroom’s [...]
admin @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Not all the tech we buy needs to be brand new and manufactured specifically to fit our needs. With a little ingenuity and cheapness, you can rig up common household objects to do the job just as well. Here’s an example of such a thing, using a $6 hot water bottle as a laptop stand [...]