Palm, Inc. announced the Palm Foleo, a device that's designed to be a companion to Treos and other smartphones. The Palm Foleo has a 10-inch screen and full sized keyboard, but does not have all the functionality of a notebook computer. Palm hopes business people will leave their notebooks at home in favor of a Foleo/Treo combo. 
The Samsung Q1 Ultra was showcased on CNBC's Power Lunch today. The Q1 Ultra is definitely an improvement over Samsung's previous UMPCs, but is $799 still too much for a secondary PC? 
A hard drive upgrade can revive an aging notebook's performance and provide more space for all of your music, movies and photos. Products like the Hitachi Travelstar Upgrade Kit make it easy for even the most novice computer users to install a faster and bigger drive. 
Walt Mossberg says Samsung's second generation of ultramobile PCs are a great improvement over last year's models, but not ready for mainstream consumption. He recommends the Samsung Q1 Ultra as an option for those who don't want to lug around even the smallest laptops. 
In this video, MIT professor and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's spends about 90% of his time traveling around the globe to promote the $100 laptop project. He appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the project's progress and what he calls unfair competition from Intel. 
HP's Philip McKiney showed off a prototype of its ebook reader last week at the HP Mobillity Summit in Shangha. HP Labs is trying to make flipping through eBooks and photo albums as intuitive as reading a book. Continue reading to see the video. 
Philip McKiney, CTO of HP's Personal Systems Group, gave notebooks.com a demo of Web Signs, a prototype location based service (LBS). The system combines a digital compass with a GPS-enabled PocketPC to search the web by pointing the device at any location. It's an innovative way to search for information without text. 
NVIDIA announced a new line of notebook GPUs aimed at mainstream users and gamers alike. In this podcast, NVIDIA product manager Ravi Kashik talks about the benefits of the new 8M GPUs and explains why Vista users need a powerful GPU to get the most from their notebooks. 
Notebooks.com got a hands-on with HP's 20-inch HDX "Dragon." Analyst Samir Bhavnani from Current Analysis West shares his thoughts about the HDX 
HP announced the Compaq 2710p notebook, a convertible tablet that can be configured with up to three batteries. The optional expansion base features a DVD-RW drive and various ports.. A second battery can be sandwiched between the base of the tablet and the expansion base, for all-day computing. 
Buying printer ink can hit you hard in the wallet, but Kodak is out to change things with a new line of printers that use cheap ink cartridges. Kodak is selling full-capacity cartridges for $10 (black) to $15 (color), which is less than half the price of HP and Epson cartridges. 
You should never let strangers borrow your mobile phone if you want to avoid scams. Within a few seconds,thieves can scam you out of big money.