Good news everybody… no really. A few months ago the folks behind the popular Xmarks bookmark synchronization service announced plans to close up shop. After several years building one of the best tools for synchronizing your browser bookmarks and passwords between computers, the company hadn’t really figured out a good way to make money — […]
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Dell posts video teaser for the Inspiron DUO tablet/netbook
The Dell Inspiron DUO is a computer that can be used as a tablet or a netbook. But while old-school convertible laptops had swivels that allowed you to twist the screen and fold it down over the keyboard, the Duo has something different: A display that rotates inside the screen bezel. Say you’re using the […]
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VIA introduces dual core Nano processor for low power PCs
It’s been about a year since VIA first introduced the VIA Nano 3000 low power chipset. Now the company is finally starting to offer a dual core version. The folks at Bit-Tech got a chance to take a new VIA Nano Dual Core chip for a spin recently. PC Watch also has some details, including […]
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Notion Ink Adam tablet pre-orders coming in December
Notion Ink has announced that the upcoming Adam Tablet could begin shipping by the end of the year… or possibly early next year. Either way, the company says it will start taking pre-orders in early December. The Notion Ink Adam Tablet features a 10 inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 1GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 […]
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Point of View introduces Mobii Tegra Tablet
Point of View is a company that’s best known for graphics cards, but we’ve also seen a few interesting netbooks and notebooks from the company over the past few years including one of the first dual core netbooks to hit the market. Now Point of View is getting in on the tablet action with the […]
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Creative launches Zen Touch 2 Android portable media player
Companies have been pumping out handheld portable media players that can play movies and music for ages. But the iPod touch changed the game a few years ago thanks to its support for thousands of third party apps from the App Store. It’s more like a portable computer that happens to be a decent audio […]
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OLPC tablet coming in February
The One Laptop Per Child group had hoped to show off the first version of its new tablet at CES in January, but according to founder Nicholas Negroponte, it looks like the tablet will be about 45 days late. Instead it will make its first appearance in February. PC World interviewed Negroponte about the project, […]
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Creative ZiiO 7 inch tablet captured on video
The folks at Electric Pig managed to get a little hands-on time with one of those new Creative ZiiOÂ tablets I told you about yesterday. The ZiiO 7 features a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen display, a ZiiLabs ZMS-08 HD chip, and 8GB or 16GB of storage. Electric Pig reports that the […]
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Fedora 14 Linux distro now available
Before Ubuntu started grabbing all the headlines, Fedora Linux was one of the most popular community-supported open source Linux distros around. But just because Ubuntu has been in the limelight for the past few years doesn’t mean that Fedora has gone anywhere. In fact, the group has just released Fedora 14. The update includes MeeGo […]
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Habey Announces the WIT-1800
Habey USA, a design and manufacturing company in the industrial PC field, has unveiled a new embedded computer system called the Habey WIT-1800. Providing a power efficient fan-less design based on Intel’s ATOM N450 and D410 processors plus a ICH8M South Bridge instead of the standard NM10 Express chipset. The most prominent feature is the […]