Today there are two deals of the day from Logic Buy that offer up to 70% off 12-inch ThinkPads. Visit LogicBuy and get a 15% Coupon + 55% off Lenovo ThinkPad X61s Ultra-portable 12.1-inch laptop $628.15. Or if tablet’s are your thing you can get a 15% off coupon on a ThinkPad X61 Tablet that [...]
Thin must be in as it looks like Asus is planning to launch yet another slim or slimmer model of the vaunted Eee PC line. Apparently the Eee PC S101 isn’t thin enough for some, because Asus is readying what will be called the Eee PC Shell. I like that they are changing the naming [...]
There is nothing like getting a sweet gadget snatched from your hands – one minute I had a Kindle 2, the next minute it was gone, gone, gone. Fortunately, Amazon quickly stepped in to save my broken heart and shipped me a replacement Kindle 2, which arrived just minutes ago. Checkout this GBM Shortcut where [...]
I should begin this post with “it’s about time,” and I guess I just did. Hearst Corp., like all print publishers, is having a hard go of things lately, and of course those financial difficulties began long before we started talking about the global economic chaos we are all living through. It was just a [...]
Geez, I take a long lunch so I can go lay on the chiropractor’s table for a little work out and Psion Teklogix decides to respoind about the recent legal actions from Dell and Intel. As expected, Psion doesn’t look to be giving up without a figh. In fact they are tossing out some of [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day is a hot one: $50 off Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook: Today only. $50 instant discount on Dell Inspiron Mini 9n Netbook with 1.6GHz Atom Processor, 8.9″ LED LCD, 4-cell battery and pre-loaded Ubuntu OS. Range starts at $249 – $50 off instantly = $199 + $8 shipping. Available [...]
Call me crazy, but I wish we’d see more advertising chutzpah like this when it comes to countering Apple’s marketing mastery. I’m not against Apple or its products at all, but I think too many companies let Apple define them allow Cupertino to dominate unnecessarily (Hello, Microsoft). Well at least the folks at RIM show [...]
The Surface team has been on a blogging roll lately and have published four really good articles and some videos you should take a look at. Here is a quick excerpt from one of them covering natural user interface – head over to their site to read the rest. Have I said lately that I [...]
While many, including the good folks at Save the Netbooks, think that Dell and Intel’s legal moves against Psion Teklogix over the term Netbook will win out, Google is playing it safe when it comes to using the term in advertising and rejecting ads that carry the word Netbook. Legally speaking, and I’m no lawyer, [...]
Jim Forbes is about to give Netbooks a try. Jim goes way back in his coverage of geekdom and mobile devices in particular. He was the founder of DemoMobile as well as a former Sr. editor with InfoWorld and PCWeek, among other publications. We did a podcast with Jim awhile back (check out the wide [...]
Lenovo’s Matt Kohut is really enjoying Windows 7, and he thinks you will, too. He’s noticed that Microsoft has improved so many utilities in Windows 7, the value proposition of various ThinkVantage utilities has him asking the following question: Yet, our dilemma is clear — at what point does Windows offer ““good enough†functionality that [...]
If you’ve been following the story of the HP Mini 1000 Webcam woes today, you’ll know that the first there was one video from GearDiary, then there wasn’t as HP apparently asked that it be taken down. Then our cohorts at Notebooks.com posted up another video which we once again posted here. HP has contacted [...]
Looks like CBS has beaten quite a few folks to the punch with its TV.com app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This comes on the heels of Joost launching its app last fall, which has garnered quite a few downloads and also quite a few negative reviews. The TV.com app is free in [...]
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate about to roll out Chaltanya Sareen on the Engineering Windows 7 Blog is detailing some of the changes that have been made since the public beta. Notable amongthe 36 features highlighted are some enhancements for touch and multi-touch. Check them out after the jump.
In the category of “what took you so long?” GMail has made some improvements in the method of addding attachments to an email so that now you can add multiple attachments at one time. This is a huge time saver for me as I frequently have to send emails with multiple attachments and the old [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features discounts up to 20% off for Lenovo’s X200 Tablet PC, x301, and much more – details below. HOT! Up to 20% stackable eCoupon on all Lenovo ThinkPad and IdeaPad laptops including ThinkPad T400/T500, X301, X200s, X200 tablet, Elite models, W500, W700, W700ds, IdeaPads: U330, Y Series, U110, 10% [...]
Previously only available to QVC viewers, today Dell has made their Mini 10 available to order for $399. Specs: Intel Z530 Processor 1 GB RAM 10.1″ screen, 1024 x 576, 16:9 aspect ratio 160 GB harddrive A variety of colors 3 cell battery ( yawn…)
When I won the HP Mini 1000 at CntrStg during CES 2009 I was excited and knew my wife was going to claim this Netbook the minute I got home, which she did. While I’ve worked with it a bit, I haven’t had my hands on it very much, so I never noticed this webcam [...]
Microsoft has added some new features to Office Live Workspace service along with 5GB of storage space. Office Live Workspace allows you to access your files and documents through a browser on the web. You can store just about any files (except executables) in the Office Live cloud.
With most of the talk about Windows centering on Windows 7, Microsoft has been continuing to work on improving Vista and yesterday they announced that Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are just about ready to be released to the general public. TechNet and MSDN subscribers can download the Release Candidate [...]
A few months ago I started going to Dr. John Selle in San Francisco. I was pleasantly surprised by all the mobile technology he and his nurses were using, including a Motion Computing tablet. I published a quick video and the business-oriented BNet took notice. They put together a more comprehensive video showing my doctor’s [...]
Roy Blount, Jr., the president of the Authors Guild is among those concerned about the Amazon Kindle’s new audio feature and its possible effects on revenues for writers. He’s written an Op-Ed in the New York Times laying out his case that the feature makes every book on the Kindle an e-Book and an audio [...]
GMail is going through some rough times. First there was a major outage, since corrected, and now hot on the heels of that problem comes reports of a major phishing scam that is circulating through GTalk. Apparently a message directing you to a video also asks for you to enter your GMail login info and [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features 30% off HP’s Pavilion dv3z: 30% off coupon for the HP Pavilion dv3 (dv3z) ultraportable Laptop configured $999 or above. Features 13.3-inch LED widescreen BrightView display based on the Turion Ultra X2 platform, ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, slot-loading DVD burner, wrapped in a bronze imprint finish & [...]
So, in my feeds this morning there is a headline from Technologizer that says Microsoft to Squeeze Windows 7 onto Netbooks, picking up on some recent Steve Ballmer chatter and with a link to an eWeek article that has this bullet at the top of the article. Microsoft plans to offer a low-end version of [...]
Looks like Dell has some company in fighting with Psion over the Netbook name trademark issue. Intel has finally spoken out and it is in the form of a lawsuit against Psion. I guess this is a matter of timing, as Engadget says that Intel filed its suit prior to Dell’s. Even so, the claims [...]
Well, that didn’t last long. Not five minutes after posting up about my Kindle 2 arriving, it slipped from my fingers, fell three feet, and gave the hardwood floor a great big smacker. Now the upper right hand corner of the screen is frozen, providing me with a constant view of smeared ink and the [...]
I am one happy fella right now!! Amazon has done an absolutely fantastic job improving upon the original Kindle with the new Kindle 2. I will definitely share more later, but the three big improvements that I notice right off the bat are: 1) no accidental page turns due to the buttons pressing in rather [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features a 30% off coupon for HP’s TouchSmart tx2 Tablet PC: 30% off coupon on Multi-touch 12.1-inch HP TouchSmart tx2z Convertible Laptop. Available for online customization with FREE shipping, FREE upgrade to 3GB RAM from 2GB, FREE 250GB Hard Drive from 160GB ($50 value), FREE HP DeskJet Printer ($70 [...]
Add this to the “looks very cool” folder. What if you take some memory foam and create a touchable surface? Well the folks behind Dis.Play (great name by the way) are showing off some possibilities that might bend and push our ideas about touch interfaces around a bit, at least the ones that rely [...]
Ah, browser wars. They are such fun, aren’t they? Apple just upped its ante with the release of a beta of Safari 4, which they claim is 3 times faster than anything else on the market. The Safari 4 browser includes what they are calling “The Nitro Engine” that supposedly runs javaScript 4.2 four times [...]
VIA Technologies keeps on keeping on in the mobile space, although the majority of the coverage of late on the chips that power the Netbook segment (and others) seems to focus on Intel, as well as the new announcements and speculation about NVidia and ARM processors.
Crazy. GMail went down over night (at least in the US and parts of Europe) and of course it caused quite a stir when that happened. I found out curiously via a phone call. At the theatre where I work we are in the casting and hiring part of our season. I’m in the process [...]
This evolution can only be described as natural. Father of Ink Blogging Mark ““Sumocat†Sumimoto has taken up his digital pen and moved from Ink Blogging (his handwriting is pretty to look at) to cartooning. Or at least he’s trying his hand at it. Head over to Sumocat’s Scribble’s and offer him some encouragement as [...]
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