The year was 1997. Yours truly was graduating from high school, no doubt wearing a braided belt and some sort of Phish tee shirt while hard-working scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were trying to figure out what in the hell they had just recorded from deep, deep in the Pacific Ocean. It was a …
Silly though that headline may sound, manufacturers who wish to sell netbooks with screens larger than 10 inches have had to swap out the made-for-netbooks Atom N-series processors with either Z-series chips, made for mobile internet devices and smaller tablets, or even cram a D-series desktop Atom processor into a netbook, as ASUS has …
Where were you when AT&T first promised that tethering would be available on the iPhone? It seems like eons ago now. Take heart, though, because a tethering option has been spotted in the beta version of the new iPhone operating system that’s set to reach consumers sometime next month.
Now before you get too excited, a similar …
I live in Boston. Charlestown, if you’re familiar with the area. The other night I was over in the North End for dinner, which is about a mile or so from my place. The North End is Boston’s preeminent Italian neighborhood and most weekend nights are jam-packed with tourists and locals looking for dinner. Getting there by cab, even …
The “several sources” quoted by VentureBeat that said an Acer netbook running Google’s in-the-cloud Chrome operating system would be unveiled in a couple weeks have apparently been misinformed, according to Acer.
DigiTimes reports that the company “has no short-term plans for such a product” but that it will be following …
Apple has updated its $999 MacBook laptop to include a new 10-hour battery that can be recharged up to 1,000 times–about five years before needing to be replaced, according to Apple.
There’s also a new NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics system that’s “up to 1.8x faster than [the] previous-generation MacBook,” which Apple’s …
Though this video from The Onion is a tongue-in-cheek look at Google’s advertising platform, it may not be too far off from what’s coming in the future.
The idea is simple. Google gives away handsets and service for free and in return, it uses voice recognition software to detect what you’re talking about and whispers …
Oh man, this Painting Cell Phone Jammer is perfect for so many things. Hate cell phones? Painting Cell Phone Jammer. Love beautiful artwork? Painting Cell Phone Jammer. Teenage children bankrupting you via their cell phone bill? Painting Cell Phone Jammer. You get the idea.
I love beautiful boat-inspired artwork and pranks, so …
DigiTimes is reporting that Foxconn will apparently ship 24 million iPhone 4G units this year alone—4.5 million shortly after Apple officially announces the phone on June 7th and another 19.5 million throughout the rest of the year.
Of course, none of this is official since as far as Apple’s concerned, the new iPhone doesn’t …
Another Monday, another set of handpicked deals. Here are the ten best ones, in no particular order. Walmart has some pretty aggressive pricing on netbooks and nettops, while Target’s got an excellent coupon code for 15% off anything ordered from its website. Happy shopping, folks.
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA 10.1-inch netbook: $198 today
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We all saw this coming eventually, right? The ClamCase for iPad is a protective enclosure that’s decked out with a Bluetooth keyboard, effectively turning your slab of portable touch computing into a more functional mini notebook. It’s made of “high quality ABS plastic” and provides a “smooth yet grippy rubberized exterior …
The New York Times cited a statistic yesterday stating that 2009 was the first year that mobile data from texting, e-mailing, and internet usage “surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls.”
If you own a smartphone, how much time do you spend talking versus doing everything else? My wife and I are on a shared iPhone …