Archive for July, 2010
Fujitsu and Toshiba Merging Mobile Phone Businesses
Today Fujitsu and Toshiba announced that they have entered into an agreement to merge their mobile phone businesses. As part of the agreement Toshiba will transfer its mobile phone business to a new company that Fujitsu will manage. Their target date for the completion of this merger is October 1, 2010. At that point Fujitsu [...]
How to Fix iPhone 3G Slowdowns After Updating to iOS4
If you updated your iPhone 3G to iOS4 and it is now running sluggishly, then there may be a fix. Apparently Apple is looking into the problem, but until they find and release a solution, you are stuck with hacking it with an old backed up version of the OS. If you would rather not [...]
Samsung adds Core i3 ULV Processors to X Series
It is being reported that Samsung is releasing three new X series notebooks in South Korea or Europe. The X430 is a 14-inch model with a Core i3 33o ULV CPU and NVIDIA GeForce 310M graphics. The X180 is a diminutive 11.6 model with the same processor. It only has an Intel GMA graphics chip. Both [...]
Sony Back To School Deals Include up to $958 in Savings and an Adobe Bundle
Sony is making a big push for Back to School laptops and notebooks with deals and discounts across a wide range of the Sony VAIO notebook series and even including a free Adobe Bundle, a collection of Adobe creativity software, with select notebooks. These deals are valid while supplies last through August 21, 2010. The Sony Back [...]
HP Tablets Replace Paper on LifeTime’s Project Runway
Designers on Lifetime’s Project Runway had the opportunity to trade in their pens and pencils for touch enabled HP tablets and all in one computers. Fans tuning into the season eight premier of Project Runway will see the HP TouchSmart Tm2t tablet in use as a digital sketchpad alongside HP TouchSmart PCs. Thanks to the [...]
Toshiba AC100 Review and Why Smartbooks Aren’t That Popular
Announced last month, the Toshiba AC100 smartbook looked to be a promising competitor to many netbooks on the market. However, as Hi-tech.mail.ru noted in their review, the Toshiba smartbook came up short in many areas. The Toshiba AC100 smartbook combines features of a netbook with a smartphone operating system, Google Android. Though Android has become quite popular [...]
Parrot Minikit Slim Review from the Road
Having a reliable hands free in-car solution is a must on a long trip, and handy for day to day driving as well. Since not everyone can go out and get a SYNC equipped car like we have on the Great American Road Trip 2.0, we took a look at the Parrot MiniKit Slim Bluetooth [...]
New Amazon Kindle Announced; Faster Refresh, $139 WiFi and $189 3G Models Coming August 27th
Amazon unveiled a new version of its popular ebook reader tonight. The new Kindle drops the surnames of its older siblings and will be known as simply, the Kindle. The Kindle still retains the same 6-inch size as the recent versions but is 21% smaller, 15% lighter and offers 20% faster page turns and 50% [...]
Samsung’s New X125 and X180 Thin and Light Notebooks
Samsung recently released two new thin and light notebooks. The Samsung X125 is available for pre-order in the United Kingdom, and the Samsung X180 is currently available in Korea. These notebooks are extremely portable and have quite a few unique features that aren’t found in similar notebooks. Samsung X125 The X125 is available in the [...]
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Previewed
Mac users of Microsoft Office just got a little more information about what Office for Mac 2011, which should ship later this year, will look like. One of the key new features includes a conversation view†in Outlook. In the 2011 version of Outlook for Mac email conversations will be presented in a single, compact form†[...]
