Dec 3, 2007 by saxxonian
This one came in the mailbox, the post_mail_box, of course. Mediagalaxy included this cutie in their latest advertisement paper. We've been watching it for a while, now that it's here it seems unbelievable! Intel Mobile 900MHz, 512MB DDR2, 4GB storage, webcam, Wlan, card reader, built-in speakers and mike. It comes with Linux and - this one made me giggle - is Windows XP compatible! It is sold as ...
Nov 30, 2007 by gary
According to spys at some motherboard makers AMD has recently notified its partners that it plans to launch two triple-core CPUs (Toliman) in February 2008.
In computing we are so used to things going up in 2s. 256Mb of memory, then 512Mb of memory and so on... 1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores... It is refreshing to see the number 3 again... Of course there is not technical reason ...
Nov 13, 2007 by saxxonian
Still your eyes on the little beauty called EeePc? There's some cooking happening, Debian style, aiming to run Linux on the cutie. No much content yet, but hey, Asus' small portable just recently made it into our homes! Hopefully this project will become real and alive ASAP. We will monitor this, as it seems something that makes a real tech-heart pump.
Nov 7, 2007 by gary
This week Google have ended months of rumour about a possible Google mobile phone dubbed the gPhone but official not releasing the gPhone but instead releasing Android.
Android is an open platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications. It has been developed in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance (which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola).
For developers there will ...
Oct 24, 2007 by gary
Asus has revealed that Microsoft has agreed to provide the Taiwanese vendor with a version of Windows Vista that can be pre-installed on their diminutive notebook called the Eee PC.
Asus has told Register Hardware on Friday that with a "little optimization", Windows XP can be installed on the machine and still leave the EeePC's solid-state storage with enough room for apps. An Asus spokesman has revealed that Microsoft ...
Oct 16, 2007 by gary
Hitachi has developed a hard drive read/write head that's half the size of the heads found in today's hard disks. Hitachi say this is an important if not crucial step, to delivering a 4TB desktop drive. Unfortunately such hard drives won't appear commercially until 2009 at the earliest.
The read/write head is one two-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair and based on a new technology called ...
Oct 15, 2007 by saxxonian
We've been waiting for it, tomorrow it will happen: the small beauty from Asustek, Eee PC is to hit the Taiwan market with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of ...
Oct 3, 2007 by gary
James Burgett runs the Alameda County Computer Resource Center which takes computers destined to become landfill and installs Linux on them and then gives them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people. CNN calls him a hero, an interview with Burgett is currently leading a CNN contest among videos of 'ordinary people' whom CNN considers everyday heroes, narrowly edging out the video of a man who is saving ...
Sep 28, 2007 by saxxonian
We announced already the imminent availability of one of the worlds smallest notebooks, which was due at the end of September, beginning of October. Now we learn that changes are made to the time line of the release. According to DigiTimes Asustek Computer is expected to delay shipments of its Eee PCs to the end of October.
Asustek's Eee PC was originally expected to hit the market in the ...
Sep 16, 2007 by saxxonian
It is known by now that Apple has blocked their new iPods from synching with third party applications (anything that isn't iTunes). The most significantly affected userbase in all this is the Linux community, who've been able to upload songs to their older iPods using free software such as gtkpod and Amarok for a while now. The tweak to the new iPod database files doesn't appear to be ...
