Launch date announced for Sakshat, the $35 Indian tabletWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 6:34PMThe Sakshat, the $35 Indian tablet everyone's been buzzing about, has an official launch date of early next year and will be brought to you by the same company that once made the world's cheapest Windows laptop.
Default is Chief draw at LECWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 3:52PMLangley-based band Default is coming home for one night to play at the Langley Events Centre on Thursday, Sept. 9. With four albums selling more than a million records, Default is the biggest band to play the Events Centre since opening last year.
Seven-inch tablet runs Android on Tegra 2Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 3:26PMAmazon.com opened pre-order sales for a $370, seven-inch, Android 2.2 tablet from Stream TV Network.
Mini-ITX board targets embedded multimediaWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 2:26PMVia announced a Mini-ITX board teaming 1.2GHz or 1.3+GHz versions of its embedded-oriented Nano E-Series 3000 processor with the HD video-ready VX900 core logic chip.
Launch date announced for Sakshat, the $35 Indian tabletWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:04AMThat Indian $35 laptop we told you about in July is slowly approaching reality, as the Indian government awarded the manufacturing contract to HC LTechnologies. The local computer services firm will deliver the now-officially-named Sakshat by January 10, 2011. HCL has been contracted to manufacture 100,000 units in the first phase.
iPad triggering PC sales slowdown, memory overstocks?Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 10:51AMSamsung on Tuesday warned that a slowdown in computer sales was close to triggering an oversupply of RAM. While the company's semiconductor head Kwon Oh-hyun said that phones and servers were keeping the supply-and-demand balance "stable," a continued slowdown of the PC business could create a glut in the fall or in the winter. Prices had already started falling in July after Greece's debt ...
Corsair Dominator GT RAM breaks pair of DDR3 speed recordsWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 5:26AMCorsair’s ePeen has just got a bit larger thanks to the capture of a couple new records for DDR3 memory performance. The RAM used to break the records is the Corsair Dominator GT GTX6 modules. The RAM was able to break the records for dual-channel memory frequency at CAS 7 and CAS 8. The RAM hit frequencies of 3078.2 MHz with timings of CL8-11-8-31, 1T and 3059.4 MHz at CL7-11-8-31, 1T. The geek ...
Netbooks, Sexy as EverTuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 8:05PMThe Eee PC 1015PE is a midrange 10.1-inch netbook from Asus, the generally acknowledged creator of the superportable-computer category. Part of the Seashell product line, the thin and light 1015PE combines aesthetics with mobility, making it one of the better, though just slightly, looking portable computing gadgets in the market today. Compared with some of its siblings, the 1015PE is thicker ...
Toshiba Portege R700: A Truly Ultraportable 13.3"Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 5:06PMTo say that I was very impressed by the Toshiba R700 on paper would be an understatement. Even with very little actual hands-on time with the notebook, I put it in my mobile buyer's guide as my pick for road warriors. I got Toshiba to send me a review unit to see if the R700 was as impressive in day-to-day use as it is on paper and found that while the configuration they sent me was not so great ...