Dell Hybrid

Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Dell, Devices, General | Leave a Comment

Dell announced today their new Hybrid, a mini-pc designed to help the company accomplish their green agenda which calls for a 25% reduction in power output of their equipment by 2010.

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Printer Privacy

Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Tech News | Leave a Comment

The decreasing cost and growing popularity of color laser printers is causing concerns in some circles that your privacy may not be worth the paper you’re printing on.
More manufacturers are producing laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page that identify

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Battery Extender

Posted on July 6, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General | Leave a Comment

The very best extender for your notebook battery is YOU! Your computing habits may need a little tweaking but you can get several extra minutes out of a charge on your laptop computer.
There are some well known tips you should always follow to extend the life of a charge.

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New ‘iPod’

Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Internet, Television | Leave a Comment

There will be a new kid in town this summer with the introduction of the PoD. I recently reported on the Netflix Roku which is able to receive broadband feeds of Netflix subscribed content and play to a TV rather than a computer.
Verismo Networks has previewed “the PoD,” a tiny box that brings web content […]

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Rural Connectivity

Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, Tech News | Leave a Comment

It’s almost as if they were listening……
Hot on the heels of my recent diatribe on dial-up in the US, Intel says they’ve developed a new wifi technology aimed at extending existing wifi networks into rural under-served areas. Dubbed the rural connectivity platform (RCP), the node consists of a processor, radios, specialized software and an antenna […]

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64GB Flash

Posted on February 16, 2008 - Filed Under Devices | Leave a Comment

Samsung has started production on a line of 64GB Flash devices. We’re finally ramping up toward the demise of the old Winchester hard drive structure that has cobbled everything from speed to size to reliability over the years of computer history.
These cards will

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Black(and blue)Berry

Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Devices | Leave a Comment

Customers of RIM (Research in Motion) were aghast and taken aback on the 11th when they lost service for a few hours. The more we depend on these kinds of devices, obviously the more we miss ‘em when they don’t work. RIM is naturally catching a lot of heat

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