The timing on this look under the hood of an optical mouse is pretty good. Earlier today, Sprint announced availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8530 for a low $49.99 and it sports one of those optical trackpads. I got my first look at one with … Read More »
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MoTR 193 is 35 minutes long and is a 32 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) Is Google’s Nexus One really that disruptive? What … Read More »
I only have my MacBook checking for updates weekly, I don’t like to introduce changes more often. This lets me control when the update is applied, and makes sure I can do so when I have time to deal with any issues that such changes introduce. … Read More »
Mobile broadband as we know it today is at a bit of a crossroads in the U.S. We have four major carriers that now offer fairly comparable broadband speeds with EVDO Rev. A and HSPA. LTE networks with greater speed are rolling out next year … Read More »
I’m the first to admit that my office is unruly — a veritable mess of cables that I can’t straighten out no matter what I do. It’s a case of too many gadgets in too small a space, and those cables are everywhere. I have longed … Read More »
This news from DigiTimes doesn’t change time frames dramatically, but if you expected to see any next-generation Intel Atom netbooks in 2009, plan to wait just a wee bit more. Originally, there was talk of some vendors — MSI, in particular — offering netbooks … Read More »
You remember wireless USB, that technology that sounded promising but never seemed to go anywhere? As a refresher, wireless USB is exactly what the name implies, the ability to use USB peripherals with PCs without messing with cables. I’ve been thinking that maybe wireless USB would … Read More »
Other than the first Linux-powered netbooks, the market for small laptops is dominated by “WinTel”, just as it is for larger laptops — Intel chips running Windows. But then Intel decided to get involved deeper at the software level and the Moblin project.
Google’s Chrome OS has only been out for a matter of days, and there is already a fork of it, dubbed Chromium OS. Driver support is excellent for it, and you can run it on everything from netbooks to quad-core systems. Read More »
Although I promised myself I wasn’t going to spend time running Google’s Chrome OS right now, I got the bug. Thanks to gdgt who put an image together, I’ve spent about 15 minutes tinkering with it in VirtualBox. Chrome OS is definitely bare-bones right … Read More »
What the hackintosh community brings, Apple taketh away. And the hackintoshers then put it back. With the 10.6.2 Mac OS X update, Apple removed support for Intel Atom CPUs, so all of those netbooks running Snow Leopard lost their spots. A modified kernel brings back … Read More »
Google held their developer and press event today to show off the upcoming Google Chrome operating system. The source code for Chrome OS is open source and available as of today, so theoretically, you can build your own Chrome OS. However, the actual release … Read More »
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