The mobile computing market changed forever a few years ago with the introduction of the netbook.  Finally a small, reasonably lightweight personal computer that could be carried by anybody.  Then the technology companies brought us a new breed of powerful ultraportables and finally tablets.  One thing to note though is that prices haven’t changed much, [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing

Mozilla have announced that they’re the latest contender for the tablet operating system crown, and have begun work on their own operating system for mobile devices and tablets.  The OS will be based on Google’s Android operating system but will have much of the code freshly written. The project, which was announced on a Mozilla [...]

Categories: Firefox, Operating Systems

There really can be no escaping from it these days and we’ve accepted the barrage of emails we receive from people as a normal part of life.  Should it be this way though and will something have to give soon in order to avoid people either becoming completely addicted to their email, or to help [...]

Categories: Email, Mobiles

This was the convertible tablet that started it all back in January 2010.  The Lenovo U1 hybrid tablet / laptop concept was shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas all that long time ago and was the first real rival to Apple’s iPad to appear.  Despite predating Google’s Android tablet though, the [...]

Categories: Hardware

Friday and Saturday have uncovered some pretty interesting things about the new contenders entering the tablet market. Both Sony and Motorola are apparently rushing towards new releases, and while both are expected to appear on the market by fall, information on each is scattered. Reports about Sony’s upcoming tablet(s) are quite literally all over the [...]

Categories: Hardware, Notebooks

When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and in the early days of dot matrix and bubblejet printers (before ink prices soared) people would print anything and everything at length. Now [...]

Categories: Hardware

Yesterday Steve Job’s unveiling of a host of new Apple products and services was very well received, including the official product tour for the next version of OS X on the Mac desktop.  Some of the features don’t seem to fit well with the current Mac lineup though and this has left me wondering if [...]

Categories: Apple

Despite the popularity of Apple’s iPad and the booming market for Android tablets, there are still plenty of Windows 7 tablets out there.  The latest is Acer’s W500 hybrid tablet, a 10.1 inch tablet based on a 1GHz AMD C-50 processor, 2GB of DDR3 ram and a 32Gb SSD.  It also comes (optionally) with a [...]

Categories: Hardware

I’ve got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they’re just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important documents in the cloud and update them on my phone is just amazing, and being able to use custom apps on a device [...]

Categories: Hardware