It’s nearly that time in Taipei again, where consumers can get the best deals for consumer electronics at the IT Month fair. It starts on Saturday, December 3, and goes throughout the rest of the month.
Among the tablets to be featured during IT Month…
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ViewSonic Viewpad 7e Among Anticipated Gadgets to Be Featured at IT Month in Taipei
Intel Releases Material Costs of the Ultrabook Category
Intel has apparently revealed the BOM or bill of materials minus assembly costs for the 21mm ultrabooks which have them ringing in at around US$475-650 and the 18mm models at US$493-710. Sources at Digitimes indicate that Intel is planning on meeting with notebook ODM partners…
Mitac MioPad 6 Tablet Doubles as a GPS, but comes with out 3G?!?!
Mitac has a reputation for creating GPS car navigation units but they’ve come to market with a 6″ tablet called the MioPad 6. We went hands on at the ‘Taipei Computer Application Show’ with the 6 inch tablet is thinner then anything that I’ve seen…
“The Culture of Sharing” by Sascha Pallenberg at Ignite Taipei 2011
Sascha spoke about “The Culture of Sharing” at the inaugural Ignite Event here in Taipei, Taiwan. If you’re unfamiliar with Ignite its a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea, and who want to share it! Each presentation is packed with…
Mobile Monday: “The Smartphone Revolution: Who will Profit from It, and How?”
At Mobile Monday Taipei our very own Sascha Pallenberg took the stage to give a 30 minute speech about “The Smartphone Revolution: Who will Profit from It, and How?” With tablets and Superphones entering the market there are many people wonder how the chips are…
MasterImage Shows off 7″ No Glasses 3D with Airlines in mind?
No glasses 3D was a pervasive theme of Computex 2011 and chipset maker Texas Instruments (TI) has decided to up its ante in the space by announcing a partnership with MasterImage 3D. We ran into these guys last year at Nvidia’s GPU conference and things…
Ramos W10 7″ Android Tablet at Computex 2011
Ramos W10 is an affordable Android tablet that has rolled out of Shenzen with every feature you’d want except one a resistive touch screen. If you can get past that this 7 inch display has a resolution of 800 x 480 and an very decent…
Webbox Enables Internet on Any TV with Opera Webbrowsing
Vodafone announced Webbox, an internet-enabled keyboard intended to turn a regular TV into an “internet portal”. To access the internet you use a 14 x 25 cm QWERTY ‘board with an RCA connection for the TV. The Vodafone Webbox packs the Opera Mini 5.1 browser…
Netbooks in the Classroom: Gimmicks or Useful Tools?
Netbook News has placed 2 Classmate PCs in an English School in Taiwan to see how a netbook would effect the learning environment. When looking at the learning landscape it quickly became evident that the goal was 1 computer per child. Many classroom’s don’t have…
2 Classmate PCs Set to Take After School English School in Taipei
The notion that each child can have a computer in the classroom is a great dream. In the mean time while we sort out the logistics of how we are going to make this happen why don’t we figure out how a small school could…
Education: How Effective is just 1 Netbook in the Classroom?
Welcome to Part 1 of a 4 part series about Netbooks in Classrooms, specifically the English House in Taipei. Netbooks are usually inexpensive with impressive battery lives. This, and their smaller form-factor than standard laptops make them ideal for use in the classroom! Many classroom’s…
ECS Computex 2010 Line Up + T101L Hands On Video
Computex Netbooks are coming fast and furious, ECS has another exciting line-up that will probably never make it to the consumer shelves. Its actually pretty tragic dealing with ECS, they won’t want to show off netbooks throughout the year because they don’t want them to…
IC207 IP Camera demoed with a Netbook
Plug & Play IP Camera was on display at the Security Expo here in Taipei. A show trend was that Netbooks & Nettops were being used to access the expansive security setups. The IC 207 will cost you less then $200 and has wifi so…
Wimax Forum 2010: Device Walkthrough including eReaders
Want to see what’s available for Wimax devices here in Taiwan? Take a look at a gambit of devices including dongles, eReaders & media devices that we uncovered at the Wimax Forum in Taipei 2010.
There are two more WiMAX events in Taipei in May…
Mobile Monday Taipei: Netbook Applications, MeeGo & iPad = Fail
Nicole Scott will discuss porting your iPhone games onto Netbooks. Also, get the run down on the netbook application ecosystem and answer questions like: Who are Netbook users and What kind of apps are they buying? And if you were wondering about tablet ecosystems, well…
