Archive for category Hardware
Future tech: Retro visions revisited
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Dude, where's my flying car?! We look at 11 venerated visions of future technology that totally missed the mark
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InfoWorld review: An IP KVM for servers that haven’t come out of the closet
If you thought you could get advanced features like remote media mounting, remote power reset, and ultraquick screen refreshes in only the big KVM boxes, think again. The $385 Lantronix SpiderDuo stuffs these features, advanced authentication (LDAP, RA…
Is Apple losing its quality magic?
Apple has long basked in a glowing reputation as a purveyor of high-end, well-designed products. Sure, the company’s wares typically cost more than those of its competitors, but such is the price of quality.
Apple sued over iPad overheating
Apple was sued last week over claims that its iPad easily overheats, then suddenly switches itself off. In a complaint filed with an Oakland, Calif. federal court last Friday, a trio of plaintiffs accused Apple of everything from fraud and deceptive ad…
Microsoft signs big licensing deal for Arm chip technology
Microsoft signed a new agreement to license technology for the Arm microprocessor architecture, opening the potential for the software giant to follow in Apple’s footsteps and design its own Arm-based chips.
Desktop PCs gone wild
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Bored with your old beige box? These enterprising modders have you covered. Gorgeous, unwieldy, and rarely pragmatic, here are 15 cases that blur the line between workhorse and work of art …
10 reasons why the PC is here to stay
The PC as you know it is obsolete. So sayeth Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who took the stage at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference in June to talk about what he sees as the coming “post-PC era.”
Best-performing netbooks
Once you get over the novelty of an iPad, practical concerns come to mind — like, can I use it for my work? Although you may get away with doing email on an iPad or an Android-based tablet, you can’t do the kind of work most road warriors do: Edit doc…
HP closes Palm deal, confirms WebOS tablet
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday finalized its acquisition of Palm and confirmed it will use the company’s WebOS in future tablets and netbooks.
Update: Sony says 535,000 laptops at risk of overheating
More than half a million Sony laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said Wednesday.
Sony has recorded 39 cases of overheating among Vaio F and C series laptops that have been on sale since January.