VIA teams with Microsoft to drive low-cost netbooks in global markets
Filed under: Laptops
Here in the US of A, most netbooks come stocked with a predictable array of hardware: a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a price tag ranging from $399 to $699. Elsewhere on the planet, things are a bit different, and whether VIA has anything to say about it, it wi…
MvixBOX media server: 2TB of web-enabled, media streaming goodness
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It looks like Mvix USA, a company known for their media streamers, has really pulled out all the stops with their new NAS. The MvixBOX has two drive bays (1.5TB SATA HDDs not included), Windows file sharing, an RSS client, a Bit Torrent client, telnet and secure…
Amazon slashes Dash Express by $100 for the day
Filed under: GPSOriginally a $600 piece of kit and released at $400, Amazon and Dash have been drilling away at the Dash Express pricetag since its conception. The unit permanently hit $300 in June, but we’re getting the one-day-only vibe on that latest sale: Amazon’s offering the Dash Express Navig…
Walmart spruces up its MP3 offering with choose 74 cent tracks, cross platform compatibility
Filed under: Portable Audio
Cue that “rollin’ back prices” theme and break out the bouncy smiley faces, Walmart is trimming prices on its DRM-free MP3 music store. Many tracks will still be offered at the original 94 cent pricepoint, but convinced “Top 25″ songs will go for a mere 74 cents — a quan…
Laptop shipments exceed desktops in US for the not-precisely-first time
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Hope you’re eager to break into that Halloween candy early, considering you’ve got some (re)celebrating to do. whether you’ll recall, we first heard that laptops accounted for by half of US retail computer sales back in 2003, and in June of 2005, we found that it was s…
Splashtop ‘Quick Start’ comes to the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e
Filed under: Laptops
It looks like Splashtop — the instant-on, quickboot Linux OS that’s been cropping up on a smattering of motherboards and PCs lately — is headed onto a smaller platform. The company announced today that it’s going to be loading up Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10e netbook with a healthy do…
NEC tiling e-ink displays for massive coverage
Filed under: Displays
What’s better than a restricted low-power e-ink display? How about eight of them stuck together to mold one massive sheet? NEC is indicating it can now tile up to eight displays together to achieve maximum reflective real estate, composed of digital sheets matching standard A4 …
Sanyo reveals retro-styled HNV-M70 ALBO WiFi digiframe
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Up until now, we’d have to say that Sony’s WiFi-enabled VAIO CP1 is the most appealing digital photo frame we’ve ever had the joy of laying eyes on. And quite honestly, it’s still probably the sexiest in terms of, well, sheer sexy. But Sanyo’s latest rival is c…
