ASUS have released a cheap subnotebook. It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor. It has a 4Gb hard drive and no optical drive. Its screen is 7” and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this?
LG.Philips LCD on Monday said it will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show a 52-inch multi-touch screen designed for advertising and other commercial uses.
The liquid crystal display maker said it will also show 32-, 42-, 47-, and 84-inch screens at the Las Vegas event, which runs Jan. 7-10. The 84-inch model comprises four 42-inch displays in a two-by-two array.
The devices use an infrared image sensor to recognize input from a person's fingers or a writing instrument. The screens have a 90-Hz touch response time and a resolution of 1,920 pixels x 1,080 pixels.
It's not uncommon for a household to bypass landline phones and use cell phones as the primary means of communication inside and outside the home. In fact, U.S. households are forecasted to have spent more on cell phone services than landline services this year.
According to recent statistics released by the U.S. Labor Department, the average annual household cell phone spending was $524 in 2006, compared with the $542 that the average family spent on landline phones.
Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.
The devices -- whose miniaturization over time set in motion the race for faster, smaller and cheaper electronics -- have been shrunk so much that the day is approaching when it will be physically impossible to make them even tinier.
BMW is no stranger to high-tech computer wizardry in its vehicles. The German company befuddled BMW owners around the world with the introduction of the Windows CE-based iDrive driver information center in the current 7-Series. iDrive, which has been panned by most enthusiasts and auto journalists, later filtered down to the 5-Series, 3-Series, 6-Series, 1-Series and X5.
Students at Montclair State University in New Jersey are required to have mobile phones fitted with GPS tracking devices as part of their equipment for campus life.
The scheme will cost students $420 a year for 50 minutes of call time per month, unlimited text messaging, emergency GPS tracking and unlimited data use on campus.
Students are not tied into particular phones or contracts, and can choose from a range of options.
The pace of change in IT has never been faster — or has it? After 25 years of desktop computing and 15 years of the commercial internet, there are still plenty of frustrations, pains and throwbacks in our everyday technology experience. It's great having a terabyte hard disk, but not so great trying to manage it using interfaces and tools that have barely changed from the days when 40MB was respectable.
Storing large project files separately in its 20 offices worked fine for environmental engineering firm GEI Consultants until employees with different specialties had to start collaborating on jobs.
Most of us live our digital lives surrounded by three screens: the television, the personal computer and the mobile phone. The dividing lines between them are becoming blurred. We watch YouTube video clips on PCs, send text messages and e-mail on smartphones and monitor weather conditions and phone calls on internet-enabled TVs.
So when my youngest daughter came home from college and asked if she could have a TV in her bedroom, I looked at the alternatives and, in particular, at ways to watch TV on a PC.
Every year there is something that everyone in a certain group of people, whether it be kids, hackers, adults, or computer geeks, want with all their heart. Some get their desire, and some don't, and the ones who don't only end up wanting the item more, as they hear how awesome it is from all their friends. Sometimes, though, it is good to wait so bugs can be fixed (like with the XBox 360).
But what I really wonder about is what is this year's item going to be? Last year, every gamer wanted a certain console: the XBox 360, PlayStation 3, or the Wii.
