Intel/Yahoo to Tap Quanta For Butt-Ugly New UMPC
According to the briefest morsels of info leaking out of the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, the long-rumored collaboration between Intel and Yahoo to produce their own UMPC device has finally borne fruit in the shape of that rust-colored contraption you see above. The as-yet-unnamed UMPC is to be made by Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese…
Averatec Dual-Core Laptop a Snip at $849
It seems like nary the blink of an eye since dual-core CPUs were the hottest ticket in town with all their fancy cutting-edge newness and yet here they are in budget laptops going for a hefty chunk less than $1,000 already. Averatec’s latest 4lb, 12.1-inch laptop, the Averatec 2300, features a 1.6GHz dual-core AMD Turion…
Logitech Buys Slim Devices, Promises Autonomy
Late last night saw one of our favorite companies spring quite the surprise when Slim Devices announced that it had been bought by peripherals monster Logitech. https://gizmodo.com/slim-devices-transporter-exclusive-first-look-at-the-u-189484 The company responsible for such streaming-audio goodness as the Transporter and Squeezebox is set to suckle from the Logitech marketing teat in a bid to bring its high-end…
SMS Earthquake Alert; Letting You Know There’s Only Seconds to Live by Cellphone
Having lived in San Francisco for the last four years I thought that by now I would have gotten my first decent earthquake out of the way. But alas, I am still an earthquake virgin. So I walk around with the question looming in my head, “When will it hit & then what the hell…