All the stories tagged with: Computers
Buffalo Launches External HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Combo
01/18/2008, Buffalo is launching a series of external optical drives in Europe. The high-end model will feature a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive. It will be able to write Blu-Ray discs, but only read HD-DVD. If writing Blu-Ray discs isn’t in your todo [...]
Fujitsu Unveils P1620
01/18/2008, Fujitsu has just introduced the P1620 notebook that looks pretty much similar to its predecessor, the P1610. While the P1620 has been tagged with a $1,599 price tag, there is no word on a release outside of the US at [...]
Ripple-Mini Is Tiny
01/18/2008, While cell phones went through the “smaller and smaller” craze a fair number of years ago, it looks as though basic computers are going through the same design process these days. Case in point – the Ripple-Mini from Ripple. Measuring [...]
Rumor Of Touchscreen Asus Eee PC
01/18/2008, The Eee PC has been a phenomenal seller to say the least since it was released, and word on the street has it that there will be a touchscreen version coming up sometime later this year. It is tipped that [...]
Mirus Linux PC Drops Under $200 Mark
01/18/2008, Looks like we have yet another (extremely) affordable computer on our hands with the Mirus Linux PC. It will retail for $199 on Sears.com, and as with nearly every good bargain these days, it comes attached with a condition. You [...]
Mvix MX-780HD Media Center
01/18/2008, The Mvix MX-780HD Media Center is the third generation of its kind, and this time it supports full high definition resolution thanks to HDMI output. Just as there are many roads that lead to Rome, the MX-780HD also comes with [...]
IR Transfer Speed Hits 1Gbps
01/17/2008, Bluetooth and WiFi are certainly much faster and more efficient when it comes to transferring data between devices compared to IR (infrared), but KDDI R&D Laboratories have turned the tables upside down with its new technique that enables IR transfer [...]
8-inch and 8.9-inch Eee PCs
01/17/2008, Here’s a piece of news that went past our radar at the recently concluded CES – Eee PCs with larger sizes. These new models will be available in 8″ and 8.9″ flavors, and it surely looks like an optical illusion [...]
Is Doom Too Violent For The OLPC?
01/17/2008, Some feel that Doom is way too violent and that it should not be associated in any way to the OLPC, a low-cost computer that is supposed to improve child education in developing countries. Others think that “Doom can teach [...]
AMD Lost 1.7B in the Best Quarter of 2007
01/17/2008, It’s not everyday that a well-known company announces that it lost more money ($1.7B) in the quarter than it pulled in as revenues ($1.63B)… to be fair, AMD took a $1.675B writedown for the ATI fiasco acquisition. Interestingly, AMD shipped [...]
Time Warner to Test Usage-Based Internet Billing
01/17/2008, Time Warner Cable will conduct a billing test in Beaumont (Texas) to see if it can reduce “network congestions” by making heavy users pay more than light users. Time Warner describes the situation like this: heavy users are 5% of [...]
AirMail, Manilla Folder for the MacBook Air
01/17/2008, Wow that was quick… following the Keynote where Steve Jobs used a Manila folder to store the MacBook air, a website called manilamac.com is already commercializing a Manila folder-looking sleeve for the MacBook Air. It costs $29.95 and should ship [...]
Seagate PipelineHD Series
01/17/2008, Seagate has debuted its PipelineHD hard disk drive series that was specially designed to be used in digital video recorders (DVRs). Shipping of this new line will commence sometime in the first half of this year, bringing a wide range [...]
