Amazon Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain

200 college students in Seattle, WA are trying to make the move from paper textbooks to the Kindle e-reader. While the overall cost, and bulk, of the Kindle may be less, the students are having to learn a new way to study.

Posted on: October 14, 2009 9:00 am

New HP Pavilion dv8

The new HP Pavilion dv8 Entertainment Laptop PC offers an 18.4-inch, full high-definition, ultra-widescreen, ultra BrightView display with built-in TV tuner.

Posted on: October 14, 2009 9:00 am

Why Twitter and Facebook Will Never Kill E-mail

Various experts have declared the ascendancy of social networking at the cost of e-mail. However. This article looks at some of the things we take for granted in e-mail.

Posted on: October 14, 2009 9:00 am

International Kindle Gets No Web Access Outside U.S.

The logic of this decision seems to be lacking, until you consider the roaming charges AT&T may be charging Amazon for access. But then there are shipping charges from the U.S. and a U.S. power plug making the device look less and less “international”.

Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:00 am

WikiReader device gives you the 3.1 million English Wikipedia articles

Openmoko has released WikiReader, a palm-sized electronic encyclopedia containing more than three million English language articles of Wikipedia that can be accessed without requiring an Internet connection.

Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:00 am

Microsoft Red-Faced After Massive Sidekick Data Loss

T-Mobile blames a server failure at Microsoft for the lost of user contacts, to-do lists, calendar entries, and photos over the weekend. Microsoft has admitted there is no backup of the user data.

Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:00 am

How the iPhone’s App Store Could Stimulate the Flash Economy

Adobe’s new Flash Professional CS5 developer kit includes tools to convert Flash apps into iPhone apps, greatly increasing the market for Flash.

Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:00 am

Future Phones Dazzle With Design

CEATEC is where the Japanese show off the latest in consumer electronics, both those in production and those only in prototype. This page shows some of the latest ideas in phone, including one that folds up like a road map.

Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:00 am

Click Forensics: Bahama botnet stealing traffic from Google

When is a Google page not a Google page? The quick answer seems to be, when a botnet has redirected your search through a fake site without your knowledge.

Posted on: October 9, 2009 9:00 am

Dueling smartphones: Sprint’s Hero, AT&T’s Pure

Both of these phones are made by HTC of Taiwan, but use different operating systems. Hero uses Google’s new Android OS while the Pure runs on MS Windows Mobile 6.5 making them very different experiences.

Posted on: October 9, 2009 9:00 am