Is GammaTech's new Durabook U12C a notebook or a tablet PC? [......]
Toshiba this week announced its first 2.5-inch hard drive series to offer up to 1TB of storage in the industry standard 9.5mm high form factor. The company's new MQ01ABD series uses 500GB platter technology and is available in capacities ranging from 1TB down to 250GB. This isn't the first drive to offer 1TB in a standard notebook form factor, but according to Toshiba, its flagship mobile HDD offers an industry leading areal density of 744Gb/in2, an increase in the quantity of data stored per square inch by over 37 percent compared to prior 2.5-inch models[......]
Cambridge chip designer ARM Holdings posted results for its second quarter and half year ended June 30, 2011. Revenue for the quarter jumped 27 percent to $190.2 million, up from $150.3 million one year prior[......]
Do we really need another browser-based operating system? Chrome OS isn't enough? [......]
Huge news! The iPad is trumping Android tablets in the enterprise! Actually this is rather small news and could probably be assumed by just about anyone who knows what they’re talking about. Either way, the smarty arties at Good Technology kindly mapped out the stats sans assumption. [......]
As announced late yesterday during Apple's fiscal 2011 third quarter earnings call. OS X 10.7 released today. It's yours for 30 bucks, if your Mac has Snow Leopard and Mac App Store installed. [......]
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) no longer supports AT&T's $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile. The group has just sent a letter (PDF) to the FCC rescinding its earlier support for the deal—support that was so controversial, the group's president and six of its board members all resigned in the last few weeks after backing the deal. GLAAD had received money from AT&T, and an ex-AT&T lobbyist served as a GLAAD board member (and may have prompted the initial letter of support)[......]
Slowly but surely, NFC (the tech that'll let us ditch our wallets in favor of paying for things with a Jedi-wave of our phones) is picking up steam. After years of floundering around in the US, NFC took a major leap forward when Google announced support for it in Android. Shortly thereafter, Google doubled down their efforts with the announcement of Google Wallet . [......]
Researchers from Samsung and the department of physics at Sejong University in Seoul, Korea, have found a way to improve the rewritability and speed of ReRAM, which is a next-generation nonvolatile resistance random access memory. [......]
Back in March, we noted that the mobile-first group inside of AOL was pushing forward with a pretty nice new music app called "Play" . The timing was good, they released it just as SXSW was kicking off. [......]
Features: 9-inch touchscreen Runs Flash 10.1 (sort of) Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2GHz 1024[......]
I’m a few days into my week with the Nissan Leaf . It’s a fun car; I can say that much so far. My plan later today is to test the range by driving in increasingly smaller circles around my house until the battery is nearly depleted[......]
In all reality, the trackball never left, it just plummeted from relevance for most users, and certainly in the mainstream. Undeterred by the market's move towards laser sensors, Kensington announced a new wireless mobile trackball along with an update to its free TrackballWorks software[......]
Image-Line studios on Tuesday released FL Studio Mobile and FL Studio Mobile HD, the first mobile versions of the company's popular Windows-based music production and beatmaking software FL Studio, which is now in its 13th year on the market. Like many other iOS music apps, FL Studio Mobile can be used as a multi-track sequencer to create music from scratch, giving users resizable piano keys and assignable drum pads to link to the app's built-in synthesizers. The major difference that FL Studio Mobile offers over other music creation apps, however, is its interaction with the desktop software[......]
Tottenham Hotspur has announced that its new shirts will come brandishing some augmented reality love, thanks to sponsor Autonomy. Software firm Autonomy has decided to forgo its name on the footie kit and instead add its new augmented reality platform Aurasma as the brand. [......]
