Archive for June, 2010

Engadget Names Netbook News & Team “Must Follow for Mobile Computing”

We love the guys over at Engadget and we always through they loved us too, but they certainly proved it when the published a list of Who to follow for Laptops & Mobile Computing. They named Netbook News and our entire team as must follows.…

Dexcon Wireless Bandaid Offers 7 Days Glucose Monitoring

Usually we don’t lead with slogans, but this one is too cute, “Think of it as your Persona diabetes G.P.S Glucose Protection System” It is a wireless bandaid with a tiny needle that continuously monitors your Glucose levels for 7 days before you have to…

Gigabyte’s Overclocking App Cloud OC Uses Netbooks to Tweak Performance

Gigabyte has released a new motherboard overclocking app, called Cloud OC. Rockson Chang walks us through the web-based app most commonly used on netbooks by overclockers during overclocking competitions. An internal network is created…

Dell Streak gets a Packaging Facelift in the US

The more I see people using the Dell Streak, the less gay I think it looks, at first glance its 5 inch form factor seems just too big to hold to your face, then you spend a day with it and it suddenly seems reasonable.…

Video: ASUS Eee Pad EP121 12-inch tablet shows up in Poland

The ASUS Eee pad is known to have two form factors a 10-inch or 12 inch large battery on the market. CHIP now the Polish version of the Burda magazine published a video with the 12 inch version of ASUS Eee Pad EP121. This variant…

Unboxing Viliv N5 by JkkMobile

We’ve been a waiting this beauty for a while now and the unboxing of the actual product will have ultra mobility punits taking notice. This 4.8″ inch UMPC with 1024X600 LED backlit screen as a Intel Atom Z520 with a CPU speed of 1300 Mhz…

San Disk SSD Custom Bios Boot Up

Jon has come across a special gem on the show floor, Sandisc has put on a demo showing off an Insyde custom bios that allows you to boot up full windows 7 plus a media presentation in under 15 seconds. Demos like these put instant…

Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 Walk Through & Review (Video)

Antivirus and internet security is a must for any PC, Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 looks much like many other internet security suite. Antivirus engine – check; real-time protection – check; firewall – check; safer surfing tools – check; parental controls – check, it’s all seems…

Review: HP TouchSmart TM2T

Core i3 ULV processor, the convertible has a 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, a new TouchSmart layer for laptops, an onboard stylus for taking notes, and a striking design with a rather stellar chiclet keyboard. Spec wise its identical to the HP TouchSmart TM2 but it now…

Hands on – Elitegroup ECS A102 Tablet N450 with Win 7

Elitegroup had a 10 inch tablet on display at Computex 2010 the ECS A102. From a technical perspective it looks more like a Netbook, Intel Atom N450, 1GB RAM, Windows 7 and an SSD. The 2-cell Li-polymer battery should be enough for 4 hours and…

What you Need to Know About the Intel Atom N475

Netbooks don’t exactly have a lot of different processors, so its note worthy when a new one comes out, actually the past few months have been interesting with AMD’s 1.6GHz Neo MV-40 coming to market.
Now we have Intel’s N475 processor is clocked at 1.83GHz…

Eken M001 7″ Android 1.6 Tablet On Sale for $113

TheEken M001 which used to be called the Haleron iLet Mini HAL is on sale now for $113USD. There is the “>Amazon listing below if you wanted to check it out for your self.

This has been on sale for a while so I’m told,…

Sony Vaio P 2nd Generation Video Review

Sony VAIO P second gen ultra portable notebook computer. The Vaio P has an 8″ LED backlit display with 1600 x 768 resolution (you can scale it down with the press of a button to 1280 x 600 to make text more readable). It runs…

Hands-On with Windows 7 CE Embedded (Video)

Windows Compact Embedded 7 is now out and shown off below. ARM devices can easily use Windows CE but with out a custom user interface this embedded system is too limited to be usable for the average consumer. Below is a video of Windows CE…

MeeGo Tablet the NPad Heading for China

IDF Beijing did happen back in April in Beijing, so I guess its not shocking that Red Flag Software has just shown off a custom MeeGo tablet for the China market. There are no pictures or videos, but what we do know is that the…