Hardware

After seeing the features included with the Pomegranite smart phone, I think so:
But it’s a very clever promotion.

Microsoft Research has come up with a pixel design for a flat panel display that will be faster, brighter, more power efficient, and easier and simpler to fabricate, which should make it cheaper. Each pixel switches in 1.5 milliseconds, compared to 20 - 45 ms in LCD displays. For more info, check this [...]

Here’s one for someone without enough bling - a 24 karat gold plated Mac Book Pro with diamonds as the Apple logo - only $9499:
The specs are vague as most items are customizable, but the base (!) model comes with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics, a 15.4″ TFT [...]

In this press release from the Intel Developer Forum, Intel, HP, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments Incorporated have formed the USB 3.0 Promoter Group to develop a USB 3.0 standard expected to be over ten times faster than the current USB 2.0 standard. The proposed 3.0 standard will be backwards [...]

nbsp;iphonesimfree.com has announced that they have broken the iPhone’s lock to AT&T’s cellular service. They cite these benefits:
* Chose the provider you want, use any SIM card from any network provider in any country
* No more outrageous roaming charges. When traveling simply pick the local provider of your choice and [...]

Canada isn’t worth marketing to? Well - Canada has roughly the same population as California - is California not worth marketing to?
“A former Hewlett-Packard worker who could barely wait for their non-disclosure agreement to end so they could spill company secrets to The Consumerist has more, along with clarifications about what was posted yesterday.”
1: [...]

“A former Hewlett-Packard worker could barely wait for their non-disclosure-agreement to end so they could spill 14 company secrets to The Consumerist.”
1: Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won’t work. This resides in the a transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer [...]

IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
International Business Machines Corp. said Wednesday that its new memory technology will help unclog [...]

ASUS has released a pink leather notebook with some pretty decent specs: Intel Core Duo L2400 1.66GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, and a two year warranty in Canada and the U.S. It comes with XP Pro and ASUS claims increased battery life of up to 25% beyond that of [...]

According to this report, gamers who have installed Vista are having multiple problems, including slow running games and crashes. If it were me, I wouldn’t even think of installing Vista as XP is much less taxing on the computer’s hardware. Many nVidia graphics card users in particular are experiencing problems and are reporting [...]

Can you imagine 800 GB or 1.6 TB storage per disc? It’s a reality! According to this story, price is still a limiting factor - $120 - $150 per disc and ~$24,000 per drive - but remember when Panasonic was the only company to sell a CD burner and the price was in the [...]

Two reports today on new hard drive technologies: the first is from Robert X. Cringely, a pseudonym for someone who writes a technology column on the PBS website. Those of you who have read my posts on the Lockergnome website and in their newsletters have seen me mention his name often - I [...]

Are you a small computer repair person and builder? I build maybe six computers a year for customers. Until I found this link, I thought that I couldn’t offer the discounted or free upgrades to Windows Vista that the big boys do. Here’s what you do: Go to the Microsoft Partner [...]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have made ultrathin silicon transistors that operate more than 50 times faster than previous flexible-silicon devices. The advance could help make possible flexible high-end electronics that would be useful in a variety of applications, from computers to communication. Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering and [...]