Affordable ultra-portable laptops are the in thing at the moment. Intel and Acer started the ball rolling last year with the Acer Aspire Timeline systems, including the outstanding Aspire 1810TZ (winner of our Best Portable Laptop award last year), but HP and AMD also teamed up to produce the promising (yet ultimately flawed) HP Pavilion [...]
Archive for February 16th, 2010
16 Feb
AMD’s Old Chip Makers Turns to Mobile
In an attempt to become more responsive and agile in the market, AMD divested itself of its chip fabrication plants, with the process finished by early last year. The new company, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, is proving it can do just fineand that it isn’t limited to computer CPUs. The chip fabber announced today at Mobile World Congress [...]
16 Feb
Thailand: Another lèse majesté computer act arrest
On February 5 an unidentified man was arrested for comments he posted to a webboard. His house was searched, his computer confiscated as evidence, his family frightened, and friends panicked. These are ordinary people who express opinions that the authorities consider dangerous, and the mainstream media never allows. The Internet is their only outlet. The [...]
16 Feb
Come hunting Dragons with us
From the studio that brought you Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda comes How to Train Your Dragon. Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his [...]
16 Feb
HTC to debut first Windows Phone 7 smartphone in Q4
IDG News Service – High Tech Computer (HTC), the world’s biggest maker of smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system (OS) and Google’s Android mobile OS, plans to launch its first smartphone with Microsoft’s latest offering, Windows Phone 7, in the fourth quarter of this year. “We will have a full-featured smartphone for Windows Phone [...]
16 Feb
Computer-savvy activists launch attacks to punch holes in online shields of authoritative regimes
It is the Internet version of David vs. Goliath — computer savvy activists who launch guerrilla tech attacks to punch holes in online shields erected by governments to control what their citizens do online. One of the newest cyber-warriors is Austin Heap, a 25-year-old San Francisco software developer who helped launch Haystack, a program to [...]
16 Feb
Computer failure reduces 000 to pen, paper
TRIPLE-zero operators were reduced to using pen and paper to log emergency calls after a state-wide computer system failure in Queensland. Maintenance had been scheduled from midnight to 4am (AEST), but technicians could not get the system back online until 9am.
16 Feb
New Computer Engineer Barbie for Future Geeks
After 124 jobs, hardworking Barbie has a new career – now she’s a computer engineer! The role was chosen by online vote. Mattel explains: For the first time ever, Barbie asked the world to help her select her next career.
16 Feb
Humax Freeview HD Set Top Box Goes On Sale
The very first Freeview HD set top box, the HD-FOX T2, has landed in the UK courtesy of Humax and brings much needed competition in the high definition market currently dominated by Sky TV with its HD offer. The latter adds £10 to an existing Sky package although you get the set top box for [...]
16 Feb
If global warming real why is it cold?
A recent BBC poll suggested that the public’s belief in global warming has declined steeply since November. The apparent erosion of in climate science was put down to the University of East Anglia email row and various gaffes by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I strongly suspect, from talking to people in the street, [...]
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