Best Ultrabooks: 15 of the best Is 2012 going to be the year of the Ultrabook? The term Ultrabook is a marketing term dreamt up by Intel but like Centrino and unlike Viiv , it's starting to stick as a catch-all term for thin and light laptops, or ultraportables as they're sometimes classified. The best way to think of an Ultrabook is a MacBook Air that isn't made by Apple, a netbook that isn't underpowered or a laptop that's been on a crash diet[......]
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Amazon UK is reporting a 491 per cent rise in sales of telescopes as the British turn their eyes skyward after watching Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox. So much did the viewing public enjoy Stargazing Live that telescope sales went up six-fold in the three hours after it aired after 3.8m people tuned in earlier this week. Neil Campbell, camera and photo store manager at Amazon.co.uk, explained: "Each time the popular physicist appears on TV we see a jump in telescope sales and that would appear to point to a significant 'Brian Cox effect' encouraging a renewed interest in stargazing." Things can only get better Professor Brian Cox, whose glory days as the keyboard player in D:Ream are too often overlooked, has been responsible for the astronomy renaissance as impressionable young geeks and women of a certain age fall under the spell of his enthusiastic grin and incredibly large brain[......]
The winners and losers of CES 2012 Now that our jetlag is subsiding, it's time to take a look back at the utter madness that was, and always is, the Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2012 didn't have a huge amount of absolute stand out kit, but for a time of financial uncertainty, there sure were a lot of launches and the industry certainly hasn't been shy in terms of coming forward with expensive designs. This was the biggest CES ever, with 1.861 million square feet of exhibit space, beating the previous record from 2008. [......]
Apple gadgets that time forgot All around Apple's Cupertino campus there are people working on the Next Big Thing: it could be the iPhone 5 or an iPad 3 , a proper Apple TV or a new kind of Mac. It may even be something you could never imagine. [......]
10 best Ultrabooks at CES 2012 Is 2012 going to be the year of the Ultrabook ? At this year's subdued CES, these MacBook Air-a-likes are everywhere. [......]
Haiti's tech legacy Today is the second anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated Haiti, killing up to 316,000 people and making millions more homeless. [......]
CES 2012 highlights The world's greatest tech show - CES 2012 - kicked off on Monday 9 January (if you're a show obsessive, note that's a week later than usual). Running until Thursday, the show will see the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. We'll be hearing from the biggest names in tech to talk about their plans for 2012. [......]
TechRadar have teamed up with McAfee to give away 8 copies of McAfee's All Access security software worth £74.99 each. McAfee All Access (MAA) enables users to secure smartphones, tablets, netbooks, PC and Macs with the optimal level of security protection for each device. It protects users from risky websites, stops web and email threats and detects or blocks viruses so that users can browse, shop and communicate on the move, safely and securely. [......]
If you've got a car with a video player you'll almost definitely want the impressively small Kivic One. [......]
We are Free Geek: ultimate PC recyclers Several years ago, on one of our trips to Portland, in the North West of the United States, we heard about a local non-profit that recycled old hardware by taking it to pieces, saving the valuable parts and then building new machines from the good bits and Ubuntu. They were then either given away or sold through the thrift store to raise money for the organisation – and the majority of people who did the work were volunteers[......]
CES 2012: Home Entertainment The world's greatest tech show - CES 2012 - kicks off on Monday 9 January (if you're a show obsessive, note that's a week later than usual). [......]
A Canadian man successfully gained entry into the United States using a scanned image of his passport on his iPad. Matt Reisch, from Montreal, realised he'd forgotten his passport as he approached the US border while driving to deliver Christmas presents to Vermont[......]
Digital music downloads rose by almost a quarter in the UK in 2011, but it couldn't prevent an overall decline in album sales. Sales through iTunes and other download platforms reached 26.6m albums, which was a 24 per cent rise on the 2010 figure. However, when CD sales are factored in overall album sales in the UK fell 6 per cent[......]
Year in tech: the highs and lows of 2011 It was clear back in January that 2011 was going to be the year of the tablet. [......]
LG has announced that it has developed the world's biggest OLED TV Panel – with a whopping 55 inch offering described as 'a significant step forward' for the screen technology. Organic Light Emitting Diodes bring several benefits over more traditional screen technology (thinner, lighter, more environmentally friendly) and have long been hailed as the future of out televisions. Although OLED is now a familiar sight in small screens like phones, the technology remains prohibitively expensive in larger sizes[......]
