Completing its Intel-based portable pack, and riding on the success of its 17-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros, Apple Computer launched the all-new MacBook, touted as the world’s most advanced consumer notebook that features Intel’s Core Duo processor and a 13-inch glossy wide-screen display.
Around one-inch thin, the new MacBook promises to be up to five times […]
Apple’s latest pro laptop isn’t just a larger version of the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro – it adds a faster processor and the option of a glossy X-Black-style screen. Alongside this release, Apple has offered both of these features as options for the 15.4-inch model too.
The resolution of 1,680-x-1,050 is high enough to give you a […]
Atheros Communications, Inc. , a leading developer of advanced wireless solutions, today announced that LAPTOP Magazine has selected Belkin’s N1 Wireless Networking Router featuring Atheros XSPAN(TM) draft 802.11n technology as the Ultimate Choice Award winner in the “Wi-Fi Router” category. The award was published in LAPTOP’s annual Ultimate Mobility special issue — currently available on […]
IBM systems account for 240 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world and more than half the total processing power according to the just-released TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. IBM’s Blue Gene/L developed and installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tops the list with an unprecedented sustained performance of 280.6 Teraflops, or […]
Sony has launched another salvo in the bitter war of words that currently blights the next-generation gaming scene like a cloud of mustard gas. In an interview with the US PlayStation magazine, Kaz Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), was asked if Sony and Microsoft are going down the same route. […]
Microsoft has acquired iView Multimedia, a UK based digital photo management company, which has an application that can compete directly Adobe products such as Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks.
The application, called MediaPro, is a professional strength suite which has a range of digital image management and editing features.
In an open letter on the iView Multimedia website […]
Dell, the number-one producer of PCs in the United States, plans on Wednesday to launch a new IT services plan that will enable its customers to employ search giant Google’s Google Earth Pro 3D mapping application to monitor Dell technical support resources in real time around the world, the Associated Press reports via the New […]
Desktop PCs are becoming more and more reliable according to a new survey by analysts Gartner.
Hardware annual failure rates (AFRs) have been reduced by approximately 25 per cent in the past two years the company said, but laptop reliability remains poor.
According to Gartner, laptop AFRs still range from 15 per cent to 20 per cent […]
Microsoft Corp. laid out a plan Monday to further extend its business software into telephones and related areas, hoping to convince corporations that its Office product line can be the one-stop shop for sophisticated communications technology.
At an event Monday in San Francisco, the company showed planned products designed to more closely link virtually all workers’ […]
Multimedia tools and document authoring software vendor Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe Flex 2 product line and Adobe FlashPlayer 9.
The Flex 2 product line provides developers with a set of tools and technology for end-to-end development of web applications.
“We have always prided ourselves on being an innovative organization and will continue […]
