A whole gaggle of Atom powered UMPCs turned up at the Intel Developer Forum this week, including offerings from Lenovo, Fujistu, Sharp and Panasonic.
Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.
Opposition Communications spokesperson, Bruce Billson, has misfired in an attack on the Federal government over the use of the AU$2.4 billion Communications Fund to back the national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.
Intel's business practices will come under the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has opened a formal antitrust investigation of the chipmaker.
The number of phones being handed in for recycling has sky-rocketed in NSW and Victoria in the lead up to Telstra's shutdown of its CDMA network.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
Google announced the open-sourcing of its Chrome OS early this morning, and the search giant was very clear in explaining its target market for Chrome OS devices: this is a companion device, not a primary desktop machine. But is a Chrome OS netbook intrinsically better than a lowly iPod?
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
Fourteen minutes into Argentina's first World Cup match on June 10, a header bounced off the goalpost and into the Ivory Coast keeper's hands -- and maybe all the way across the goal line.
The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.
Shouldered aside by recent entrants into the smartphone and mobile e-mail market, HP sees a tougher focus on business users, enterprise markets and device management as keys to regaining its leadership.
Although sold as a 'consumer entertainment' notebook, the swivelling PDA-style touch screen on HP's newest laptop could have strong appeal to the small business market.
Hewlett-Packard's new TouchSmart PC is more likely to popularise touch-based communications than Apple's iPhone, a senior HP executive claimed.
South Korean government officials are warning consumers that Internet and e-commerce sites in that country may lack full compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which will become available to consumers next week.
Nokia may have launched its megapixel camera-phone, but this must seem passe to the Koreans and Japanese with the dream phones they're rolling out.
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