Tuesday, March 1, 2011 6:11PM - By Chris Weiss
Well here’s something that’s likely to get an unnamed Apple staffer in heaps of trouble should anyone ever find out who he is. On the eve of Apple’s iPad 2 event, said staffer basically came out and said “Nothing to see here. Come back next year.”
According to CultofMac, the Apple employee said: “For the iPad 2 don’t get your hopes up too high. That’s all I’m going to say. They’ve had a number of problems along the way, and the third-generation iPad is the one to make a song and a dance about.”
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Monday, February 28, 2011 6:37PM - By Chris Weiss
Further blurring the line between mobile computers and phones, Motorola plans to offer docking systems like the one debuted on its 4G Atrix phone on all of its high-end smartphones by the second half of 2011. Moto CEO Sanjay Jha revealed the news to investors today.
Launched at CES in January, the Motorola Atrix is a powerful, dual-core smartphone that can be docked into Motorola’s Lapdock, essentially turning it from phone to hard drive. Motorola’s dock is basically a laptop-shaped keyboard, battery and screen that relies on the Atrix and its Webtop app to run.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 4:54PM - By Chris Weiss
Digital data transfers just got a whole lot faster. Well, they will once you actually own a device with Intel’s new Thunderbolt protocol. Called Light Peak in its development stages, Thunderbolt is a transfer protocol that allows for 10 Gbps transfers in both directions. In other words, you’ll be transferring in seconds rather than minutes–Intel estimates less than 30 seconds for the transfer of an HD movie. Thunderbolt is capable of transferring data in both directions at the same time and it works with both PCIe and DisplayPort protocols.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:22PM - By Chris Weiss
Well, if you’re a tech-a-holic, you were probably getting a little anxious. Because the iPad’s first birthday is coming up, and that means one thing: the iPad 2 is on the way! But it’s late February and no Apple event on the horizon.
Well rumors indicate that we won’t have to wait long. Apple is expected to hold a March 2 event, and reports (as well as rudimentary Apple awareness) are indicating that the event is all about the iPad 2.
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Friday, January 21, 2011 4:03PM - By Chris Weiss
I can’t say I was too excited about the Logitech scanner-mouse that we saw yesterday, but the newly announced M515 from Logitech is much more practical for my needs. As convenient as wireless mice are, the short battery life is a killer. So it’s about time Logitech employed some smart technology to keep me from having to do a battery run every three weeks.
Logitech’s new mouse uses hand-detection technology, which means that it’s only draining battery power when you’re actually touching it. Otherwise, it sleeps and eases the strain on the battery. According to Logitech’s numbers, that means that batteries will last up to two years.
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Friday, January 21, 2011 3:53PM - By Chris Weiss
9to5 Mac has done a little digging into the Apple’s latest SDK and has surmised that the iPad 2 won’t be getting a 5 MP camera on the back as had been speculated, but instead will have a much more modest camera in the range of 1 MP. In fact it may even share a .7-megapixel camera with the fourth-gen iPod Touch. Pretty disappointing for a high-end product like the iPad, but I reckon you won’t be taking too many snapshots/too much video with an unwieldy device like a tablet computer anyway. And at least it has some type of camera.
The iPad 2 will also get a front-facing camera with VGA resolution. That camera will enable the iPad to take advantage of Apple’s FaceTime app. [via 9to5 Mac]
Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:50PM - By Chris Weiss
Frankly, my mouse has enough trouble fulfilling its own highly limited role. Because the damn thing eats batteries like nothing else. I can’t imagine adding a secondary role to it would help that situation much.
But luckily the LG LSM-100 mouse appears to be wired. Actually not that lucky–wired mouses are pretty annoying. But at least it won’t feast on the world’s AA supply.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 5:39PM - By Chris Weiss
Despite having desktops, laptops, netbooks, smartbooks and tablets, it looks like the computer market won’t quite be happy until we’ve seen every possible size and shape of computing device. We call this one the TabBook, but Acer simply calls it the Iconia, a device that it announced during a flurry of other tablets and hard goods.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:37PM - By Chris Weiss
Silly me, I always thought that apps were just lightweight software programs (applications) designed to bring some computer-type functions to cell phones and light mobile devices. But, apparently they’re good for computers too. Or maybe Apple just wants to find one more way of cashing in on the app craze.
Whatever the case, Apple announced today that it will be launching a Mac App Store. The new outlet will look just like the iOS App Store, but will be built into the newly announced Mac OS X Lion for use on Mac computers. So now you’ll be able to get your fill of farts and tip calculations on your Mac–but you’ll still need to pull up Safari for porn.
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