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News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT’s challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...

Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook eventMy Bitterness May Finally EndI had the biggest sigh of relief today when I read the news of Oct 14. For months (years?) we've been wading through rumors and disappointment so to know that Apple will FINALLY give the non-iPhone/iPod community some attention...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, notebook event, Yay, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Additional Resources

Atrise Wakeup 2.1.1 (Windows)

The Atrise Wakeup is an alarm clock with music alarms. With Atrise Wakeup you can get additional awakening reliably if you cannot awake with using your alarm-clock, cell phone, PDA or other alarm-clock device. Do not slumber away your important event. Simply start the program on your PC or a...

Tags: PC, Setup, Microsoft Windows, Atrise Software, Atrise Wakeup, PDAs, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Can a laptop ever be too thin?

Ralph Lauren is on the receiving end of a blogosphere backlash today over an apparent Photoshop job gone awry. It turns out there is such a thing as too thin. I mention this because yesterday both Dell and Sony introduced new laptops that give new meaning to ultra-thin. The trend...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-10-08

DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street

A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...

Tags: DRAM, Error, DIMM, Hardware Failure, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-10-04

HP: New Quicklook, revamped Media Smart Server top fall product news

HP is making some fall announcements today - some new business desktops, some notebook and netbook lineup upgrades and some pretty cool design features, as well. But during a recent preview of the products, there were a couple that really stuck with me. One of them was...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Media, Server, 1TB Version, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Episode 118: PowerPage Podcast

Episode 118 of the PowerPage Podcast has been posted. This week we discuss the possibilities of a Beatles announcement at Apple's September 9 event, Snow Leopard software compatibility, 640GB notebook hard drives, more tablet conspiracies and we play "What's on your Mac?" Featuring: Jason O'Grady, Rob Parker and Tom Hesser....

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Laptop Warranties and Accidental Damage Coverage: What You Need to Know

Laptop Warranties and Accidental Damage Coverage: What You Need to KnowYes it does have thatAs I view a Laptop as a product that is susceptable to outside influences as a vehicle is.It does not matter how careful and protective you are, The unit is out of your control at places...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Laptop Warranty, Accidental Damage Coverage, Apple Inc., Need-to-know, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Walmart to sell $298 Compaq laptop in time for back-to-school, 'while supplies last'

The annual back-to-school shopping trip is just around the corner. Load the family in the mini-van, drive over to your local Walmart, and watch as your shopping cart fills with new clothes, shoes, pencils, notebooks, protractors, calculators, and a million other things. The yearly resupply is...

Tags: Hard Drive, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Compaq Computer Corp., Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Apple owns the market on expensive PCs

Apple owns the market on expensive PCs91% of a market?[i]91 percent of all computers sold at retail for more than $1,000 were Macs.[/i]Windows has less marketshare than that and they are a monopoly. I guess that means Apple now has a monopoly on PCs over $1,000! I know that when...

Tags: Desktops, Food & Beverage, Apple Inc., PC, expensive PC

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux codeWSFU GPLWindows Services for UNIX has some GPL utilities in it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321712VMWARE Lower TCO, Higher ReliabilitySmart shops will skip virtualization from MS - garbage at its best. Resume generating event at its worst.RE: Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux Code

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Microsoft's fiscal 2010 battle cry: Growing our share

Microsoft's fiscal 2010 battle cry: Growing our shareMindshare comes firstIn past few years Microsoft has lost tremendous mindshare with mediocre products (Windows Vista, Windows Mobile)>The slogan should really be "Grow Our Mindshare" with good products. Market share will take care by itself.The reason for the Apple focus (despite small market...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mindshare, Apple Inc., mindshare, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Google Chrome OS is a game changer

Google Chrome OS is a game changerthis is just another silly ideadon't you understand that people want more than web-surfing on computers? be it netbook, notebook, desktop or what ever.if google means business then it means my smartphone offers more capabilities than this so called web OS calle google chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, Games, operating system, Google Chrome OS, Google Inc., Chrome OS, Google Chrome, game, Chrome, game changer, Web, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Amazon's Kindle enters the paperless office fray?

How does your company distribute documents: ala manuals or process updates ick and so forth? If this is a big part of your process, I encourage your IT team to keep tabs on the developments brewing on the wireless reader front. There will definitely be a milestone...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Paperless Office, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Samsung adds full disk encryption to solid state drives

Wave Systems and Samsung announced today new self-encrypting solid state drives that automatically encrypt information as it is saved to the drive, "an industry first" for SSDs, the companies say. While full disk encryption is a standard feature on typical HDDs, SSDs are...

Tags: Disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Wave Systems Corp., Solid State Disk, Hardware, Encryption, Disk Encryption, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-16

A password vault is as mandatory as anti-virus

We all need to get out of the mindset that our primary e-mail address combined with a single universal password are our credentials for the world. Admit it. You have one password. You may even have half a dozen variations on your childhood cat's name,...

Tags: Password, Antivirus, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blogNo Background apps...? Now they get to release the iPhone 4.0 service pack...with a new innovation... Multitasking! WOW. You mean like Windows Mobile and Blackberry have had forever? Just like the cut and paste nonsense.... Nice Service Pack...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Blogging, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3.0, live blog, Apple iPhone 3.0 event, MMS, blog

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Rumor: New desktop Macs on 24 March

A World of Apple source claims that Apple is planning to hold a special event on March 24 to announce it's long-awaited desktop hardware updates. The source says that the event will be similar to the notebook event that Apple held last October. Apple is long-overdue to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-02

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17