! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 January 2009 | Tagged as: Platforms
After the first bout of Celeron-powered 7 inch screen mini-laptops, we’ve seen the platform develop with a second wave of 9 and 10 inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, and now the third wave bolts on more consumer-friendly features while keeping the price low (ish).
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 January 2009 | Tagged as: Platforms
Ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) trade show in Las Vegas, Lenova has been dishing out info on their forthcoming OPC ranges.
Looking smoother than Jean Luc Picard’s pate, their new IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop PC packs a ton of functionality into a very stylish package.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 6 January 2009 | Tagged as: Services
Have you got a list of New Year resolutions as long as your arm, or are still deciding whether to add ’stop procrastinating’ to your currently blank sheet of paper?
Either way, here’s an idea for you.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Platforms
It’s crazy looking creation for sure, but Lenovo’s new dual screen ThinkPad W700ds has the features to set some designers heartbeats into double-quick techno time.
Based on the clever-clogs ThinkPad W700 we took a look at back in August last year, the W700ds, the beefy laptop serves up workstation performance with not one, but two screens.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, Web 2.0
While Christmas is traditionally the time that sees traffic levels plummet on websites as folks head off to far flung families or incoherent revellers find themselves unable to type due to dangerous lager levels, Facebook enjoyed a veritable festive frenzy.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Twitter
Funny to see The Daily Mail run a piece on how ‘celebrities’ are signing up on Twitter entitled, “How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives.”
They deride the Tweets of the ’stars’ as casting “a fascinating light on just how mundane, not to say downright dull, the day-to-day existence of many stars really is.”
! Posted by on 31 December 2008 | Tagged as: Tweets
H a p p y N e w Y e a r !!! We’re getting it in now while we still can :)
! Posted by Simon Perry on 25 December 2008 | Tagged as: Announcements
We wanted to send a quick hello and happy holidays to all of our readers. See you on the other side of new year.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 December 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Reviews
After a near-Olympian bout of advanced pondering and spec-sniffing - as witnessed in our recent Looking For The Ultimate Netbook feature, we finally plumped for the Asus Eee 901.
The netbook is available in both Windows XP and Linux versions, and we plumped for the XP version on account of our familiarity with the OS and the fact that it promised a slightly longer battery life (albeit at the price of reduced flash memory).
! Posted by Simon Perry on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Content
One of the fears/ dangers of opening up to public comments on a Web site is that someone will get involved who has the ability to produce words at a remarkable pace and those words will be destructive. Another outcome is that they’re hilarious.
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Dec 19 2008
We put Asus’s 8.9″ screen netbook through its paces. Will it emerge a winner?
Dec 18 2008
We take a look at the ‘only mobile device devoted solely to email.’
Dec 12 2008
We’ve got hold of the new top of the line handset from snom - the snom 820 - and are the first to review it.
It’s the flagship - and currently only member of - the new snom 8 Series range and radically redesigned from their 3xx series.
The look is striking, making it stand out as […]