Jan 13, 2010

Many a mind might’ve strayed from all the CES crazy-talk about future tech and wondered as to what exactly is going on in the war against bad graphics on otherwise totally sweet laptops. The answer from NVIDIA is, disappointingly, not much. The green giant of GPUs quietly snuck out its 300M mobile GPUs over the turn of the year, and there was good reason...

Jan 12, 2010

This isn’t quite on par with Finland’s contention that 1Mb broadband is a “right,” but UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged £300 million ($484 million) for the provision of laptops and broadband connections to low income families. The idea is for parents to be connected to their children’s school, so that they may...

Jan 12, 2010

As if on cue, here’s some new data research firm Gartner lending credence to Lanci’s boasting. Looks like Acer has leapfrogged over Dell for the number two spot in global market share for the third quarter of 2009, from 12.5 to 15.4 percent of the Big Pie Chart[TM]. Meanwhile Dell is just below at 12.8 percent, and HP is sitting happily atop with a...

Jan 12, 2010

Looks like the hands-ons, previews, and reviews are starting to pour in on Sony’s DSLR-A100, and the results are coming back surprisingly positive. In fact, TrustedReviews gave it one of the highest ratings we’ve ever seen — an average 9/10. We’ve rounded up what we could, but if you’ve seen any other sites who’ve gotten...