Everyone’s talking about the Apple Tablet, nick-named the Apple iSlate. So, here’s a quick prediction for all those tech pundits and bloggers expecting ‘game-changing’ hardware from Apple, in their big announcement this week.
Here’s why I think you “might” be disappointed…
So, the tech news blog has been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. In that time, quite a bit has happened. Clearly, the BIGGEST story in tech news during that time, was that I got to name the title of last week’s Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte; “bing is my back end”. Yeah, I’m a fan of the show (thanks Leo.)
Here’s the news I missed…
Western Digital has released the world’s first 1TB laptop hard drive. Until now, the largest laptop hard drive available was 750GB.
However, before you rush out to buy one, it’s NOT going to fit into your existing laptop! Here’s why.
Samsung Electronics has announced a $4billion (£2.4billion) investment, as part of their effort to reduce harmful emissions from their plants. The South Korean electronics giant has also pledged to focus more, on the development of energy efficient products.
According to Gartner research, PC sales have dropped by around half as much as analysts expected; with shipments down by just 5% as opposed to 9.8%. It seems shipments of netbook computers, which are up 20% on last year, are largely to thank for these better than expected figures.
Google has just announced a list of hardware manufacturers, that it’s working with on the new Chrome OS. Here they are…
Google has just announced that it is developing a brand new operating system, called Google Chrome OS. This is a separate project from Google Android. Here’s what you can expect – read on…
After frequently claiming that netbooks were a waste of time, Sony has entered what it once called, “the race to the bottom” and announced the release of a Sony netbook – the Sony Vaio W. Here’s the specs, price and release date…
Last week, Hewlett Packard sent me their HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 to review. Here’s what I have found, after a week of putting it through it’s paces. Read on for full review…
The Kindle DX is two and a half times the size of the previous Kindle and significantly more expensive than the other, already over-priced models at $489. Although it can display 16 different versions of grey, the device cannot display other colours and it is still unable to play video. Here’s why I won’t be buying one….
GE (General Electric) has announced today that they have achieved a major breakthrough in disc storage technology. They claim to have created a form of holographic storage, which allows a jaw-dropping 500 gigabytes of information to be stored on a single disc – no bigger than a regular DVD – Read on….
Thinking of getting your new netbook with Windows 7 installed? You MIGHT want to think again!
Microsoft are taking a massive gamble, by shipping a heavily restricted version on Windows 7 on new netbooks. The Windows 7 ’starter’ OS will only allow you to (wait for it) run THREE applications at a time and will have many other features stripped! To use the operating system properly, you will have to take your newly-purchased netbook, surf over to Microsoft and go pay them some more money!
If you liked the idea of being able to use your new kindle to listen to the books you buy, I have some bad news for you. Although YOU PAID for that feature, Amazon have caved in to the Authors Guild and authors will now have the right to block the audio feature being used on their books…
The Apple Macintosh computer is 25 years old tomorrow. Although I was using a Sinclair Spectrum computer at the time, I remember the first time I actually saw the original Apple Macintosh running and was amazed. The machine was just a few months old and it was the first time I had ever seen or [...]
Belkin have been found offering people money, to post positive comments about their products on Amazon.com! To get the money (less than a dollar per post), the fake reviewer was told to pretend they owned the product and also to mark any negative comments about Belkin’s products as “unhelpful.”
The blame for this pathetic episode, has [...]
