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We talk a lot about how technology makes things better.  We look to computers and tell ourselves how much better off we are, how much more efficient we are, how advanced we are.  The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Give 1 Get 1 program is back again after selling out… Continue Reading »

When you take a look at all the netbooks out there, they all seem to have the same or similar specs.  The one thing that links a vast majority of them is the Intel Atom chip, and it seems to be doing well.  ARM, the company that makes between close… Continue Reading »

Most recently we were seeing plenty of fuss over the coming end of Windows XP, but it turns out that another, much older Windows OS has finally been discontinued.  Yup, Windows 3.x licensing has been officially discontinued as of this past November 1. I am sure it is pretty safe… Continue Reading »

There are some products you can’t help but think are just pointless and you cannot see why anyone would possibly want to buy it.  This is one of those. The Pure*Gold PC is a fairly mid range PC with decent specifications, supposedly low noise levels and a nice design, but… Continue Reading »

Asus set a target of 5 million units of its Eee PC netbook to be sold this year, which they appear to be reaching.  The only problem is that shipments of the Acer Aspire One are creeping towards its ambitious target of 6 million sales, 20% more than the Eee… Continue Reading »

Looking to get an Eee PC for less than an iPod?  Sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it?  Well, in its quarterly investors earnings call, Asustek announced a great number of things, including the fact that the baseline Eee PCs will be lowered to $200 by the end of 2009. … Continue Reading »

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced.  Here is one tale. This is a true story of my encounter with a monitor of the worst kind.  I have always relied on CRTs for two main reason; the first… Continue Reading »

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced.  Here is one tale. In my house, we usually built our own computers; we had, at most, two computers that were purchased pre-built.  The second computer we built did everything it… Continue Reading »

Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-Chief executive and chief executive of mobile devices says we’ll see a Windows Mobile 6.5 device by the 2nd half of 2009.  This is the first mention of 6.5 that I am aware of and points to a half step before WinMo 7 which we’ve been waiting… Continue Reading »

Intel and Asus have just launched a site yesterday that allows everybody and anybody to help them to design a PC.  WebPC is looking for collaborators to work together to help the two companies bring about a “community designed” PC.  Their ultimate goal is to be able to actually market… Continue Reading »