Also known as “sub-notebooks” or “mini-laptops”, the Intel-coined term “netbook” is now predominantly used to refer to low-power, low-priced, lightweight laptops that seem to be all the rage this year. Most of them are smaller than a paperback book and thinner than some print magazines, but they are terrible gaming, video editing and overall multimedia [...]

The world’s second Google Android gPhone is here, it’s called the Kogan “Agora”, and comes in two versions, the “standard” Agora for AUD $299, and the Kogan “Agora Pro” (click for pics) for AUD $399. Both go on “pre-sale” from today via Kogan’s website, and are being sold outright, with no contract and no network [...]

Gartner Thursday said in the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since it began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5% increase from the same period in 2007. “The current economic climate is negatively impacting [...]

Easy Energy, Inc., inventor and manufacturer of the Yogen(R) product suite, a series of highly innovative man-powered generators for recharging cellular phones and small electronics devices, today announced that it has completed the first prototype (Alpha — site) of its patented foldable laptop charger, known as the Yogen Max(TM), a product that charges laptops without [...]

iLuv have officially announced their latest internet radio, the iLuv iNT170, with access to 15,000 radio stations and podcasts, twin 2.5W stereo speakers and WiFi.  The iNT170 has a large, dimmable monochrome display, FM radio and a dual-alarm digital clock; it can also be used with your iPod or other PMP, thanks to a 3.5mm line-in [...]

For the past ten years, there have been very few companies that outspent Google. Hiring their employees by the thousands, and giving out employee benefits among which were thing three free meals a day, ski trips, personal trainers, free physicians and on site laundry facilities. Engineers were allowed to spend 20% of their time working [...]

IBM has been taking stabs at the cost of Microsoft Windows in corporate environments for some time. Today the company followed up on a promise to participate in a “Microsoft-free” desktop environment, which the company promised to make available to its customers by the beginning of 2009. The software platform is based on Canonical’s Ubuntu [...]

Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking, storage and memory solutions announced that a federal judge has stayed the permanent injunction in the ongoing U.S. patent litigation (Commonwealth Scientific Research and Industrial Organization v. Buffalo Technology USA, Inc. and Buffalo, Inc.) with respect to the offer [...]

Nokia is putting themselves on the “smart home” scene with their latest solution. Their Linux-based platform dubbed Home Control Center plans on managing the power needs of your home appliances, electronics, entertainment, security, the climate control system. And plans on doing it all, from your mobile phone. What’s really impressive is that Nokia’s platform is [...]

BGR received a tip that in addition to the iPhone 3G actually making its way to Walmart. According to the website ” as we exclusively told you, there will be a 4GB model priced at $99 with a 2-year agreement. We’re not putting our stamp of approval behind this one just yet as the tipster [...]