Michael Arrington has been on a quest for the past few months to create an inexpensive web tablet. Now photos of the device, called Crunchpad, are floating around online. This new machine could potentially compete with netbooks.
Arrington had first written about the idea of a tablet in June, suggesting a touch screen device that would [...]
CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead with about thirty new stores that comes with aggressive prices, remodeled stores, and in-store web access for comparison shopping.
Once part of the big three electronics retail stores in the country, CompUSA filed for bankruptcy two years ago due to high overheads and the inability to compete with online prices. [...]
Consumer advocacy group FreePress charged Friday that Time Warner Cable is trying to protect its cable TV business from the threat of online video with its plan to charge its broadband customers by the byte, and it wants Congress to investigate.
After criticism from its customers and a skeptical press, Time Warner Cable edited, but did [...]
Back in the day, orchestras required instruments. Now, orchestras are playing iPhones.
One such orchestra is The Stanford University ensemble called MoPhO, which is short for Mobile Phone Orchestra. Its conductor is obsessed with making electronic music as mobile as possible. The iPhone holds plenty of potential for what kind of music can be created and [...]
According to several reports, the merger of IBM and Sun Microsystems appears to be coming apart, after a chain of events over the weekend including IBM reducing its seven billion offer, the Sun board reject IBM’s takeover proposal and IBM then withdraw the bid completely. Troubles were first reported on Saturday, saying that co-founder Scott [...]
In one day, the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings was calculate by a powerful computer program - a feat that took physicists centuries to complete. The Computer Program, developed by Cornell researchers, deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry. The research is being called a breakthrough for [...]
Apple and Stanford University will begin offering free videos and course materials on iPhone application development this week. Stanford is posting its first video of iPhone development courses this Friday - this includes Video recordings of Stanford’s ten week computer science class, a course syllabus and slides as well and will be available to download through Apple’s [...]
Take it to Best Buy: This Feb. Best Buy has adopted a consumer friendly electronics recycling program. They accept most electronics, including TVs, computers and DVD players. However Best Buy does not take TVs and monitors larger than 32 inches. Also, you must pay $10 to recycle a TV, monitor or laptop but in exchange [...]
If you are ever caught on Facebook or Twittering while at work, just tell your boss that doing so makes you a better employee; this according to a study from the University of Melbourne that shows employees surfing the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do [...]
Folks at Playpower.org have found a way to use primitive PCs to help kids learn by bringing affordable computer learning to the 90 percent of people who can’t afford a a $100 computer.
The $100 laptop has several components that makes it expensive such as its screen and own power system and a faster processor but [...]
