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Sony UX Micro PC

One of the most innovative features of the Sony UX50 is the dual cameras that can be used to shoot photos and video clips, and can also be used as a web cam.  One of the cameras is on the top middle of the front of… Read More »

I am slammed with work but wanted to post some quick and dirty first impressions of using the Sony UX50 “in the field”.  Here they are in no particular order: Fingerprint reader:  I absolutely love it!  It makes entering passwords a breeze. Keyboard:  The key spacing is good… Read More »

 
 

A few hours ago Santa Claus the FedEx guy came to my door with a package I had been anxiously awaiting.  The good folks at Dynamism have graciously supplied me with a Sony Vaio UX50 to review and even though I was anxious to rip… Read More »

More HD Video of the Sony UX50

Akihabara News has posted another video in high definition, this one comparing the speed of the Sony UX50 with the UX90S.  Of course, they were running two different operating systems, two different languages and one of them had been customized by removing all the Sony junkware… Read More »

UMPC News has posted a picture of what they report is a new micro PC from Sony that they found on the FCC web site.  They report two new model numbers– PCG-1J1L and PCG-1K1L to go along with the photo.  Maybe my vision isn’t… Read More »

No, I don’t mean by sight, where you can see the geek in a coffee house hunched over his mobile phone typing frantically on the thumb keyboard.  I mean how to spot a mobile device geek from a distance, even from across the globe.  It’s easy… Read More »

Those folks at Akihabara News always get to play with the latest and greatest Japanese gadgets, probably because they are in Tokyo.    They have their hands on a Sony Vaio UX50 Micro PC, a name that is larger than the device itself, and they… Read More »

Personal P2P Getting Hot

First there was Grouper, and then came services like Hamachi. Both have been successful, but a new breed of personal peer to peer file sharing start-ups are coming to market with their solutions, and a renewed focus on ease of use. I wrote… Read More »

Sony UX extended battery photo

The Sony UX should be shipping in Japan by now and a frequent question from those who have been viewing the photos of the UX is "how does the extended battery fit" the body of the UX.  Micro PC Talk found a page on the… Read More »

Vonage IPO – Good News or Bad News?

By Jon Arnold There are so many ways to interpret today’s disappointing reception to Vonage’s big day, and you’d be pretty hard pressed to call it V-Day. I’ve been pretty busy sharing my take with the media and on my blog (http://blogs.pulver.com/jarnold/), and Om has been… Read More »

Vonage Starts Trading, Down

Update: Vonage Holdings has sold 31,250,000 shares of common stock at a price of $17.00 per share and has started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “VG.” That works out to about $531 million in funding raised from the markets. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank… Read More »

Facebook might have dominated the headlines, and the conversation, but look who is making a comeback, and catching up: Friendster. Sure, Alexa rankings are as reliable as the New York Yankees pitching, but for what its worth, it still merits a look. Read More »

More Must Reads

No, I have not gone on vacation. Instead, I am busy writing the next cover story for the magazine, along with a couple of other short pieces, and am horribly late. So posting is going to be light for a couple of days. And if I… Read More »

By Cyrus Farivar While I may not be a cheap graduate student anymore, I still try to pinch my pennies as much as possible. As such, as far as Internet service goes, I’m more sensitive to lower prices (for lower service), than I am to… Read More »

One of the biggest short comings of Google Talk was that you could not use it to make phone calls to plain old phones. You could do that from Yahoo IM, AOL IM, MSN IM and of course from Skype. But now Fremont, California-based Vozin… Read More »

Max Skibinsky knows javascript. He knows it so well, that he was working on applications in what he “double-channel javascript.” Thank god, that didn’t catch on and instead we ended up with a more friendly Ajax acronym. Anyway the end result is pretty much the… Read More »

When Carl Icahn was needlessly hounding the Time Warner management (my employers), I urged caution and asked them to stay the course. A few weeks ago, a chart in The Economist showed that despite a checkered past, there is web life in this conglomerate called… Read More »

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