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- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Tags: Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines
- A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...
- Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 - Core 2 Duo U7600 1.2 GHz - 8.9" TFT
- The Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 sits somewhere between the ultraportable and UMPC camps, combining a 9-inch convertible tablet display (which rotates both ways--a tablet rarity) with a decent-size keyboard and business-friendly security features, including an embedded TPM Trusted Platform Module chip. Naturally, there are compromises to be found in such a...
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, TFT, Fujitsu LifeBook, LifeBook 1620, tablet, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, Fujitsu Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-03-26
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- Updated: Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 Mhz auction. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin revealed Verizon Wireless as the biggest winner of spectrum. Martin made the comments at a press conference at FCC headquarters. Here's Martin's statement (also see...
- Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Verizon Wireless, Spectrum, Auction, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round
- A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...
- Tags: Network, Investment, Radar, Radar Networks, VentureBeat, Spivack, Twine, Nova, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- WiBrain B1E UMPC
- Priced at $699 and offering a variety of useful input options, the Wibrain B1E avoids the two pitfalls that commonly beset UMPCs--high price and low usability. Its price makes it the cheapest UMPC we've reviewed; it's $300 less than the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 and a fraction of the cost of...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Keyboards, Wibrain B1E, ultramobile PC, touch pad, pad
- Product reviews 2008-01-17
- News to know: People don't get the MacBook Air; Thinnest digital camera; Merger mania
- Notable headlines: Cisco plugs CallManager vulnerability that rates a '10' Janice Chen: Think the MacBook Air is thin? Check out the thinnest 8-megapixel digital camera. Dan Farber: Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools. Phil Wainewright:...
- Tags: FCC, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Merger, Apple MacBook, Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Camera, Notebooks, Open Source, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Vulcan FlipStart drops a whopping US$800 to US$699
- Vulcan FlipStart drops a whopping US$800 to US$699It looks 'klunky' Matt, how 'bout an Eee?ntRE: Vulcan FlipStart drops a whopping US$800 to US$699Coincidentally, I was about to bite on the Wibrain and then saw this pricedrop. I never considered the Flipstart as the price was just too high. ...
- Tags: Performance management, Memory, Notebooks, WiBrain, FlipStart, US$699, US$800, Vulcan FlipStart
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Vulcan FlipStart drops a whopping US$800 to US$699
- I am on the lookout for a reasonably priced, say under US$800, UMPC type device and just saw the news that the Vulcan FlipStart has been dropped from US$1,499 to US$699. That is a whopping US$800 price drop on an ultra portable PC that runs a full version of Windows...
- Tags: Price Drop, Intel Pentium, Vulcan FlipStart, Microsoft Windows, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Ethernet, Modems, Keyboards, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Components, Peripherals, Semiconductors, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Jolene Blalock Screensaver (zip)
- Jolene Blalock is an American actress best known for playing Sub-Commander T'Pol, a Vulcan in Star Trek: Enterprise. This free screensaver is the perfect addition to any desktop, with full size wallpaper images.
- Tags: Star Trek, Jolene Blalock
- Software downloads 2007-10-30
- Fujitsu LifeBook U810 (Vista Home Premium)
- The Fujitsu LifeBook U810 skirts the line between an ultraportable convertible tablet and a UMPC (that's ultramobile PC, if you haven't been paying attention). We've always liked UMPCs in theory--shrinking a laptop down in size to something you can almost pocket--but these systems, including the OQO model 02 and the...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Notebooks, Keyboards, ultramobile PC, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Product reviews 2007-09-19
- Samsung Q1 Ultra (Q1U-V)
- The Samsung Q1 Ultra (Q1U-V) improves on Samsung's original and much maligned UMPC effort, but it still finds itself caught between two worlds. It can't replace your laptop as an everyday productivity tool because it's still too underpowered, and, despite the addition of a small keyboard split across the screen,...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Media players, Digital music, Q1 Ultra, Samsung Q1 Ultra, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Q1, ultramobile PC
- Product reviews 2007-07-05
- Is there any "wow" left in the Tablet PC?
- Rob Bushway at GottaBeMobile.com wrote a thoughtful piece the other day pondering where the "wow" has gone in the Tablet PC segment. Its a well-balanced look at what he sees as a mature product segment lacking in significant new innovations that are likely to drive large numbers of new adopters...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Tablet PCs, Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- OQO model 2
- The ultramobile PC, or UMPC, has certainly attracted plenty of attention over its short lifespan. Despite good looks and sleek industrial designs, however, these pocket-sized PCs have left us disappointed, thanks to clunky interfaces, high prices, and poor battery life. The $1,849 OQO model 02 (configurations start $1,499) is a...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Keyboards, Desktops, OQO, ultramobile PC, OQO Model 02, Sony Vaio
- Product reviews 2007-04-23
- News to know: BlackBerry outage; Oracle patches; Intel's data centers; Vonage woe
- Notable headlines:Russell Shaw: BlackBerry outage reports pile up on the three major BB forums. BULLETIN: massive BlackBerry email failures Tuesday night.Ryan Naraine: Oracle Patch Day: 37 flaws fixed. Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw.Larry Dignan: Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high. Techmeme discussion. Privacy concerns dog...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Vulcan FlipStart E-1001S
- Editor's note:We've updated this review with new battery drain tests after our initial review unit of the FlipStart E-1001S had some battery-charging problems.Pity the poor UMPC. The much-hyped ultramobile PC has been hailed as the next big thing for a couple of years now, without ever turning out a product...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Keyboards, FlipStart E-1001S, ultramobile PC, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-04-17
- Intel R&D on slow boat to China
- Intel R&D on slow boat to ChinaEnd of the empireIf you can't bust the unions, move the work to countries with no labor laws. Hollow out the economy and let it fail. Old Vulcan proverb, "Only Nixon could go to China."Communist ChinaHas everyone forgot the government is still...
- Tags: Government, Research & Development, Vertical industries, Communism, R&D, Communist China, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Tablet PC musings from the MVP Summit
- I arrived in Seattle earlier today and had a great meetup with many of the Tabet PC MVPs at the Microsoft Global MVP Summit in Seattle this afternoon. As you can imagine when a group of Tablet PC geeks gather, there was much sharing, comparing, and showing off of toys...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PC, tablet, tablet PC
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Is Lance right? Are palmtop PCs a bad idea?
- Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine declares the new Vulcan FlipStart and the Sony UX series and the OQO and UMPCs are deader than a doornail and a bad idea that must be stopped. Of course Lance also declared the Tablet PC a failure and has now come to his senses...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Tablet PCs, Mobility, Hardware, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
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