Archive for August, 2010
Apple Adds Compare Macs Option to the Apple Store
Apple recently added a new Compare Macs feature on the Apple Store. This new feature allows customers to see a side by side comparison of up to three Mac models. Yesterday, the Apple Store featured the infamous yellow sticky note saying, “We’ll be back soon.” Normally, this means a new or refreshed product. However, once [...]
Notebooks.com Week in Review – August 20th
This week we saw there was plenty of news about the Motorola Droid 2, including a review roundup and issues with Flash. We also heard from a VP at HP confirming a webOS tablet coming early next year. This is of course in addition to plenty of news about notebooks and netbooks. One of the highlights of [...]
CVS to Sell $99 Netbook … Disappoint Many Consumers
Starting in September CVS shoppers will be able to pick up a Sylvania netbook for just $99, a $159 value according to the leaked ad posted on Engadget. At first glance this may seem like the ultimate buy for a low need computer user but even without the detailed specs we can safely say that [...]
Acer Android 3 Tablet Delayed Till 2011, Windows On Schedule
Acer is possibly going to delay its launch of an Android based Tablet until the first quarter of 2011 so that it can take advantage of the Google Androi2 3.0 OS which is designed for Tablets and supports bigger screen resolutions. The rumor comes from Digitimes saying that the since the 3.0 version of Android won’t [...]
How to Fix a Security Flaw in 40 Windows Apps
There are 40 different application for the Windows platform that have a serious security flaw that can only be patched if all 40 developers individually patch the flaw in their own apps. One Microsoft patch won’t do the job, according to HD Moore, chief security officer for Rapid7 a company that creates an open-source security [...]
hulu Plus: iPad App of the Week
hulu Plus is a limited beta app for the iPad that plays hulu streaming video content on the iPad for a subscription of $9.99 per month. At this time you can download the hulu Plus app from the app store and check out a limited selection. An invite to the beta program, which will allow [...]
Nokia N9: The Unibody MBP of Smartphones
Recently, new images of the Nokia N9 have surfaced. This time, the images depict a smartphone with an uncanny resemblance to Apple’s unibody MacBook Pro. The Nokia N9 is a smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY. Originally it was thought to have run Symbian OS, but since then it has been leaked that the phone will [...]
HP webOS Tablet in 2011 Confirmed
There will be a webOS Tablet coming from HP in early 2011 according to Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of the Personal Systems Group at HP. This was previously reported as a rumor from sources inside HP, but now it is official. The webOS tablet will ship sometime in the first three months of next year [...]
Office for Mac 2011 Will Include Photo Editing and Sparklines
This past Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Office for Mac 2011 will include two key features that were included in Microsoft Office 2010: Photo editing and mini charts. It used to be that even basic photo editing had to be done outside of the Office Suite and then brought in. Now, in both Office for Mac [...]
Acer Aspire One D255 With Android Unboxed on Video
NetBookNews.com was able top pick up the new Android powered Acer Aspire One D255 and has unboxed it and provided a brief hands on review in the video below. In addition to the Android Operating system the D255 also comes with Windows XP in a dual-boot configuration. The Acer Aspire One D255 is a 10.1″ [...]
