The Acer S5 comes with Intel Thunderbolt technology

The Acer S5 comes with Intel Thunderbolt technology

The whole idea about an ultrabook is that it should be light, thin and fast, which is a group of features that are not always easy to put together into the frame of a laptop and yet we see that Acer have come up with the S5 and they claim that this machine is the thinnest ultrabook around.

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Samsung Updates The First Gen Chromebook

Samsung Updates The First Gen Chromebook

The newly updated version of the Samsung Chromebook nearly went completely unnoticed at the CES 2012 event in Las Vegas last week; it was almost as if Samsung wanted to keep it all low key for some reason or another.

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Lenovo Beefs Up The Classmate+ Laptop

Lenovo Beefs Up The Classmate+ Laptop

Lenovo are showing off their updated version of the Classmate laptop, the Classmate+ is rugged, tough and will do what is asked of it, which is just as well as these machine are designed to be used by school kids and therefore will have to take some punishment.

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The Gigabyte Booktop T1132N 11.6-inch Notebook

The Gigabyte Booktop T1132N 11.6-inch Notebook

This is fresh from the CES 2012 in Las Vegas, it is the Gigabyte Booktop T1132N an interesting three in one machine offering the user laptop, tablet and desktop options, so with a claim such as that it had better come up with the goods.

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Fujitsu Shows Off The Lifebook SH76 G

Fujitsu Shows Off The Lifebook SH76 G

Finally Japan based Fujitsu have a new and interesting laptop in the shape of the Lifebook SH76 G, it falls right into the ultrabook section of the market as it comes with a small and light solid state drive instead of the big and bulky hard drive.

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How Social Media Technology Is Shaping Our Lives

How Social Media Technology Is Shaping Our Lives

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 shape our lives. Read more on How Social Media Technology Is Shaping Our Lives…

A Techrospective Look Back at 2011

A Techrospective Look Back at 2011

2011 was an exciting year for tech geeks. The tablet came of age, Siri came to life and Spotify finally came to the U.S. The year also saw an end to Gowalla, Michael Arrington’s departure from TechCrunch and the loss of Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy. Udemy put together this terrific interactive timeline [...]

Eurocoms Panther 4.0 is a monster

Eurocoms Panther 4.0 is a monster

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 [...]

The Fusion Garage Grid-10 Tablet with Predictive Tech

The Fusion Garage Grid-10 Tablet with Predictive Tech

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 [...]

Modern Language Wars: A Look at PHP, Python and Ruby on Rails

Modern Language Wars: A Look at PHP, Python and Ruby on Rails

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 12 – The Fastest Browser In The World?

Google Chrome 12 – The Fastest Browser In The World?

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 [...]

Booktrack Create Soundtracks for eBooks

Booktrack Create Soundtracks for eBooks

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 TV that can Watch You

A New Type of TV that can Watch You

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 [...]

Are Tablets Taking Over?

Are Tablets Taking Over?

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 [...]