Acer pretty much announced a bajillion notebooks today. You’ll recall that the company announced a skillion netbooks on Friday, bringing the total number of newly-announced portable computers from Acer to a bajillion-skillion.
The company’s “TimelineX” series of ultraportables is the most impressive, in my opinion. They seem to …
Want all of the green-eyed glances associated with iPad ownership without actually having to purchase one? Buy an iDummy ($49, iPadDummy.net).
These display models are realistic-looking alternatives to actually owning or operating an actual iPad. You’ll look impressive, until inevitably, someone asks to see the thing and you’re …
Hmmm, where to find a quick $12,500? Looks like my love for the Settlers of Catan will soon necessitate the purchase of a big, fat, expensive computer-infused table running Microsoft Surface.
According to CNET, an early Surface version of Catan will be shown off at the Origins Game Fair in Ohio this week with the finished version …
It’s hard to get a read on Toshiba’s Libretto W100. It’s being pitched by the company as “a next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC” in honor of Toshiba hitting the 25-year laptop production milestone, yet despite the “concept” tag we’re being treated to a full list of specs and news that the product will actually be sold later this summer as a …
Barnes & Noble has announced a $60 price reduction for its 3G-enabled Nook e-book reader, bringing the current price to just $199. The company also announced a Wi-Fi version today that’s selling for $149 and expected to start shipping out this week.
This is bad news for Amazon, who’s popular Kindle e-book reader had been priced …
Take the phone off the hook, send the kids to Grandma’s, and light some aromatherapy candles as you prepare to hunker down for a weekend of iPad modding. If you want to stuff a Verizon 3G connection into your iPad, that is.
Assuming you have the chops to crack open your iPad, remove AT&T’s 3G module, and solder the innards of a …
Acer’s got four new netbook models, two of which are now using AMD processors instead of Intel’s Atom chips. The 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 and the 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 both leverage AMD’s Athlon II Neo K125 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics with 384MB of dedicated memory.
The AO721 features 2GB of RAM, an 11.6-inch …
Lenovo’s jumping into the 3D arena with its 15.6-inch IdeaPad Y560d, which will be available at the end of the month with a starting price of $1200. It appears that it’ll basically be an extension of the already-available Y560 line.
You’ll be able to configure the Y560d with up to an Intel Core i7 CPU, up to 8GB of DDR3 …
Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”
The search engine giant has several things …
Remember the Mac Mini? It’s back! It was never actually gone, but there’s a newly updated version now. Apple promises that it’s been “completely redesigned” and although it looks similar to previously available models, the new line gets HDMI output, an SD card slot, a better graphics chipset from NVIDIA, and a cool …
Back in 2005, a useful communications service called GrandCentral was launched. With it, you could get yourself a single phone number that got forwarded to any or all of your other phone numbers and featured some cool bells and whistles such as different voicemail greetings depending upon who was calling you—friends, family, …
Gawker is reporting that a recent vulnerability on AT&T’s network exposed the e-mail addresses associated with what they believe to be 114,000 iPad 3G owners’ user accounts.
According to the article:
“The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers’ email addresses, coupled with an associated ID used to
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