All the stories tagged with: Computers

Gigabyte Guns for Low-Cost PC

01/17/2008, Gigabyte will be releasing a new low-cost computer sometime this June, joining the ranks of Asus’ Eee PC and the Everex CloudBook. This low-cost alternative will be powered by Intel’s Basic Platform along with a panel size that ranges from [...]

iPhoto Support comes to Eye-Fi Card

01/17/2008, Looks like the Eye-Fi Card will soon support uploading photos directly to your iPhoto library on the Mac, making life a whole lot easier when it comes to archiving your recently captured photos. This 2GB SD memory card is capable [...]

Hearing Impaired benefit from AOL IM

01/17/2008, AOL has just unveiled a beta version 6.8 of its AIM instant messaging program that comes with a Real-Time IM feature which enables users to view each letter IM users enter in real time instead of waiting for an “Enter” [...]

Power Over eSATA Coming Soon

01/17/2008, Looks like the Serial ATA International Organization is working on a specification that will do away with the need for SATA drives to hook up to a separate power connection, and this development ought to be made available to disk [...]

Toshiba rolls out new Hard Drives

01/16/2008, Toshiba has new 1.8″ hard drives that were previewed at CES 2008 which come in Carbon Grey, Hot Rod Red and Gecko Green. What’s it with these color schemes, where they don’t call a spade for what it is any [...]

LaCie and Samsung partnership yield results

01/16/2008, LaCie and Samsung came together to work on implementing 1.3″ hard drive technology for LaCie micro storage devices. LaCie’s tiniest (and aptly named, I might add) Little Disk will come in 30GB and 40GB flavors, while the credit card-sized USB [...]

LapDome Tent

01/16/2008, No idea why you would want to work under the hot sun with your laptop, but if that floats your boat then the LapDome Tent could be a viable gift idea. It is actually a mini tent that covers your [...]

HCL MiLeap Y Desktop PC

01/16/2008, HCL will be introducing budget laptops in India that will run on Intel architecture, and claims that this line was designed exclusively for India. What are some of the features that you can expect? 7″ screen Integrated WiFi and Bluetooth [...]

CloudBook to get successor

01/16/2008, While the Everex CloudBook is not out until the end of this month, it seems that Everex is already talking about a successor that will roll out sometime this year with a larger display without pushing the price beyond the [...]

Acer to Launch Low-Cost Notebooks in the First Half of 2008

01/16/2008, Acer is going head to head with ASUS and its blockbuster Eee PC in the low-cost laptop space. Digitimes reports that Acer will get Wistron to manufacture these new notebooks. 8 and 9″ LCD displays will come from AU Optronics. [...]

EVDO HTC Shift at the FCC

01/16/2008, Sprint and Verizon customers may soon be able to purchase an HTC Shift in the U.S (codenamed Cleo 200) that runs on EVDO networks. Regular users are familiar with this Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), but if you don’t, take a look [...]

Samsung Introduces 24 and 25.5 Inch LCD Monitors at Macworld 2008

01/16/2008, Samsung has announced two new displays with a 1900×1200 resolution at MacWorld 2008. Besides the diagonal, they are mostly the same, so if you want slightly bigger pixels, go for the 25.5” model. Details below: Samsung 2693HM Diagonal: 25.5” Resolution: [...]

Vulcan Flipstart Priced at $699

01/16/2008, The Vulcan Flipstart ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) can be bought for $699 – it used to cost as much as $2000 last year. I thought that some of you might be tempted, so here you go, you can get one at [...]

Voltaic Generator – 14.7 Watts Solar Bag

01/16/2008, Voltaic says that this bag can generate 14.7 Watts (in optimum conditions) – enough to charge some laptops. We don’t know how it performs in the real world, but we like anything that’s solar powered It comes with an array [...]