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The Sony PRS-T1 eBook reader is in the headlines again lately, after being hacked to run Android. The PRS-T1 is a 6 inch eInk device with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. It supports a variety of file formats, includes WiFi connectivity, and works with both Apple and Windows computers.
This week in London, Nokia has unveiled an exciting new innovation in mobile computing. While touch screens have taken the world by storm over the last few years, if Nokia get their way, touch screens will seem like old news. Nokia has developed a flexible OLED display that you control by bending and squeezing, which they are calling the Nokia Kinetic Device.
For a long time, scientists have wondered why human brains outperform computers, despite the fact they handle data at a lower rate. Part of the reason is that neurons perform operations in complex parallel networks, something that Japanese scientists have just managed to do using a cellular automaton made from individual molecules.
Whenever a new laptop appears on the market, there is usually a big performance, but in the case of Gateway, this just never seems to happen despite now being part of Acer! The Gateway NV57H50U Laptop is no exception to this rule and it seems to have caused confusion with the retailers too as the prices vary from $280 to $360, I know where I would be going if I were in the market for a 15.6 inch Intel Celeron powered laptop
The Japanese based computer maker Kouziro, have come up with three new laptop models the FRNDVIHDA5 / D, the FRNDSIHDX5 ND / D and the FRNDSIHDA5 / D. The main differences between the three models is in the processor and storage choice, but basically what they have done here is provide three models to cater for wide range of consumer based on one design.
The Asus Zenbook UX31 is a sleek and small new Ultrabook, with a lovely metal finish and a nice looking spec sheet. According to many, this is the clear early leader in the new Ultrabook category, and a major competitor to the Apple MacBook Air.
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Sometimes we forget that there’s a whole lot of technology behind our favorite social media sites. Sometimes it’s a platform, sometimes it’s an app, sometimes it’s software. But looking at the biggest events in social in 2011, it became clear that social media, and the technology that powers it, has an amazing ability to help [...]
When Eurocom announce a new laptop, it is something that cannot be missed for any reason and the Panther 4.0 will make you pleased that your took time out to take a look for like its name the Panther 4.0 is a real beast of a machine. The first that you will notice is the [...]
Fusion Garage has announced the Grid-10, a 10 inch Android tablet that promises a unique user interface and predictive intelligence technology. Fusion Garage will be hoping this tablet does better than their debut offering in 2009, which was generally considered to be a flop. The Grid-10 features a gesture based user interface, with the only [...]
The world of programming has a wide variety of languages, as different from one another as English and Greek. Sites such as Google and YouTube were built in Python, which dates back to 1991, while Twitter and Hulu were built on Ruby’s rails (1995) and Wikipedia and Facebook were constructed in PHP (also introduced in [...]
Google Chrome is apparently the fastest browser in the world. At least this is what the results of a recent test, that measured the loading speed of websites, are showing. The test measured load times on broadband connections and it was undertaken from the perspective of regular users. No less than 1.86 billion individual measurements [...]
New York startup Booktrack have some big plans for the future of eBooks, with an iOS app to add ambient noise, sound effects, and music to eBooks titles. The audio is synchronised to the content of a book, relevant to the setting and story line, and available in three distinct layers. Booktrack are claiming that [...]
A new type of Internet connected television is coming out soon, with built in software and hardware to enable feedback between users, TV content, and the Internet. In a very real way, this TV will be able to watch you, with websites able to instantly adapt to TV broadcasts and online ads able to respond [...]
It’s hard to go to any tech event these days without seeing dozens of people swiping a finger across a tablet screen, playing Angry Birds in glorious HD or live-tweeting on what’s basically a really large smartphone (minus the phone). But are tablets really taking over? Will they replace the laptop as the mobile computer [...]
