Archive for October 28th, 2008

VIA teams with Microsoft to drive low-cost netbooks in global markets

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsHere in the US of A, most netbooks come stocked with a predictable array of hardware: a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a price tag ranging from $399 to $699. Elsewhere on the planet, things are a bit different, and if VIA has ...

Greatest projector / iPhone clone combo handset in the world now up for sale

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones Look, here's what you need to do: reach into the appropriate pocket on your personage, take out your phone, and throw it into the nearest wall. It sucks. The N70 from Lanye (or ChinaKing, or... somebody from China), which we've drooled over previously, is a candybar phone with ...

T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart for $148.88

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones Well, now isn't this something? Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it'll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we'd heard yesterday, 550 Walmart stores across the country will begin selling the Android-powered handset beginning tomorrow, and folks who ...

Microsoft details pre-beta release of Windows 7

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops We knew good and well Microsoft was gearing up to drop a pre-beta release of Windows 7 in developers' laps at its Professional Developers Conference, but now we're being treated to a host of details from Redmond itself. For starters, it's showing off (for the first time, ...