HP is giving away a HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition for Valentine's Day. The contest is open through this Friday and the odds of winning are pretty good since less than 300 people have entered so far. All you have to do is write a little "love letter" about it and why you deserve to win.
Last night I went photowalking with a bunch of techies and photographers in my home town of San Francisco. It was sponsored by EyeFi and Microsoft and you can check out the group's photos on Flickr.
Smartphones are increasingly becoming the most important factor in portable cloud access. What makes them unique is their portability and versatility. One minute a phone, the next a web browser, the next a video broadcast client. After blogging on the Android G1 and the BlackBerry Storm, and as co-owner of an iPhone (wife's), people asked me why I didn't blog on my personal workhorse, the BlackBerry Bold. Well, I aim to please and here it is.
HP's offering $500 off Pavilion notebooks configured at $1,399 or more for a limited time. To take advantage of this offer, visit HP.com, configure your notebook to at least $1,399 (before discount) and enter coupon code NB4345 at checkout. 
I cannot tell you how bored I have been when searching for a decent laptop bag for my Macbook Pro. I am always looking for a bag that has the right balance of style, function, and of course price. While at Macworld I think I discovered a brilliant bag maker that goes above and beyond in a variety of ways. 
Here's a video chat of Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC chatting about netbooks and the impact they're having on the industry. 
Low-priced, 720P HD pocket camcorders (palmcorders) are gaining market momentum and I believe consumers are drawn to the value proposition of low cost, high quality, portable, and convenient video capture and playback. As these devices proliferate, it leaves me contemplating how consumers will respond when they discover just how many of these notebooks or netbooks can't effectively play back that content. Whether or not low end notebooks or netbooks were designed to do this isn't relevant, as a recent NPD blog posting (citing new research) may suggest. 
MSI is giving you the chane to say 'I love you' with the Valentine Edition Wind U100. To set the mood, MSI is giving away 15 of them in a drawing. All you need to do is enter is upload a picture of yourself with your loved one. 
Harry from Technologizer got his hands on a brand new Atari CX77 Touch Tablet that dates back to the year I first began playing with gadgets. He put together a slideshow of the unboxing and what you can do with a 25-year old tablet that pre-dates Wacom digitizers. 
Knights Armament Company's Bullet Flight for iPhone is an application that takes all the guesswork out of sniping your opposition. This isn't a video game, but an application that can improve your shooting accuracy with your favorite rifle.
Circuit City is finished after filing for bankruptcy just before the holiday shopping season. This means there's one less place to buy notebooks and 30,000 people will soon be out of work.