Computing Devices Archive

  • PCI-SIG and MIPI Alliance Announce Mobile PCIe (M-PCIe) Specification

    Posted on February 26, 2013 | No Comments
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  • Media Alert for Black Friday/Cyber Monday: Holiday Shopping on the Job Expected to Increase Along With Growing Mobile Device Use

    Media Alert for Black Friday/Cyber Monday: Holiday Shopping on the Job Expected to Increase Along With Growing Mobile Device Use

    Posted on November 16, 2011 | No Comments
    –(BUSINESS WIRE)–WHAT: ISACA, the non-profit global IT governance association, offers experts to discuss its 2011 Holiday Shopping on the Job Survey/Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security findings: ...

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  • BASIS Files BBX Complaint Against RIM; Announces FoxPro Alternative

    Posted on October 26, 2011 | No Comments
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BASIS International Ltd. has filed a complaint ...

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  • The Age of the Mobile Mash-Up

    The Age of the Mobile Mash-Up

    Posted on May 29, 2010 | No Comments
    By Lars Erik Holmquist of the Mobile Life Centre, Kista, Sweden The rate of innovation in mobile services is just about to take a quantum leap. We are going from a divergent and messy ecosystem, where every new concept has to be made into a specialized ”app” that works only on a small sub-set of mobile [...]

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  • Panasonic announces the two updated Toughbooks

    Panasonic announces the two updated Toughbooks

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    While the rest of the world is going nuts trying to make the next MacBook, Panasonic keeps chugging away, releasing laptops that look for all the world like computing devices designed for Robocop to use in the bathroom. And that’s a good thing. Let’s say hello to the Panasonic CF-T8 (above) and the CF-52 (below) Toughbooks. [...]

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  • Greenpeace: iPad could increase demand for ‘dirty coal power’

    Greenpeace: iPad could increase demand for ‘dirty coal power’

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    This may be the greatest sentence ever written in the English language: "As IT industry analysts label 2010 the 'Year of the Cloud,' a new report by Greenpeace shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad raises fresh questions about how the Internet is powered and whether the IT sector will continue to fuel climate change by increasing demand for dirty coal power." Dirty Coal Power: on tour this summer (with special guest Limp Bizkit)! In other words, does the iPad hate freedom? Obviously.

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  • The NanoNote $99 open hardware computer thingie

    The NanoNote $99 open hardware computer thingie

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a fun diversion for your Thursday: the "Ben" 本 NanoNote laptop palmtop miniature computer netbook smartbook thingie! Described as a "full copyleft hardware" device, this thing isn't going to win any performance competitions -- it runs OpenWRT, which you normally find on hacked Linksys routers -- but it does represent an interesting option in the realm of traditionally expensive small computing devices.

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  • SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    So it wasn't all bleak last year, SSD manufacturers experienced a 14% increase in sales, along with a total of over 11 million drives sold. That's a whole lot of memory chips.

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