Last year, Toshiba introduced the Excite line at IFA. This year, however, I’m not finding much chatter. The company introduced a personal storage device called the STOR.E CLOUD that looks kind-of sort-of interesting. Is the general consumer really building personal clouds though? This is a device that appeals to me, but I don’t see a […]
Sony has unveiled several interesting devices at the IFA Trade show in Berlin today. While many were standards, one stood out. To begin with, Sony continues to add new Android phones to the company’s Xperia line. Today, the world got to see the Xperia T, Xperia V, and the Xperia J. All three phones will […]
Yesterday, Lexmark announced a 1,700 employee job cut and an end to manufacturing consumer inkjet printers, in a cost cutting and restructuring maneuver. The company plans on shutting down its inkjet supply manufacturing center in the Philippines by 2015 and an end to all inkjet development by next year. Lexmark chairman and CEO Paul Rooke […]
Somewhere between the standard desktop computer and notebook computers with large screens lies the all-in-one PC. While Apple is generally regarded as the king of this category with its iMac series of machines, HP had recent success building the TouchSmart line of all-in-ones designed for Windows Vista and subsequently Windows 7. The primary differentiating feature, […]
Last night at Lenovo’s 20th anniversary celebration, Lenovo introduced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, the ThinkPad T430u, and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. I had the opportunity to go hands on with all of these products, and to put it lightly, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a ThinkPad user’s wet dream. The X1 Carbon has a 14-inch […]
Another year, another glorious three days of QuakeCon. Sadly, last Saturday marked the end to what might be the most memorable gaming convention I’ve attended yet. Packed full this year, booths such as Eternal Fate (with some of the nicest developers I’ve ever met), Doom 3 3D, Triad, and oh, yes, Dishonored, lured what was labeled […]
It seems like only yesterday when Apple announced its new line of notebooks with unibody aluminum cases and a dramatic change to chiclet keyboard keys (first seen in the MacBooks and then adopted across the product line). While this keyboard design wasn’t an Apple invention by any means, it’s rarely seen on modern computers. I […]
While some of last week’s rumors of new Apple hardware came true, other predicted updates were notably absent. Most frustrating to Mac power users and professionals is the lack of any meaningful upgrade to the Mac Pro towers. Despite earlier rumors of everything from a case redesign allowing rack mounting in a server rack to […]
Last week, I wrote up a list of what mobile operating systems I’m considering to replace my current one. My end result was Android, as its the most webOS-like solution for now. I noted that today’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) might change things vis-à-vis iOS and boy, did it. Just not in the way […]
With Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) starting on June 11, rumors abound predicting new product releases. Despite the conference having a focus on software development, programmers need current computers to use while writing their code. This reality makes the annual WWDC event popular for official announcements of new Apple hardware too. Practically everything in […]
