What’s with the obsession with naming your d...

zenPad, the sub-$200 tablet

What’s with the obsession with naming your device something-Pad or Pad-something? It’s cool you want to ride Apple’s tablet wave but c’mon. Enso has another ‘Pad cooking,...
In a couple of days it will be 2009 and time to we...

Lenovo 2008 – What a year it’s been!

In a couple of days it will be 2009 and time to welcome the new year.  Perhaps like many, I’m thinking about a few personal resolutions, and wondering what lies ahead in 2009.  As I think about th...
OLPC Australia’s first pilot program is ...

OLPC Australia’s First Pilot

OLPC Australia’s first pilot program is coming along nicely, spearheaded by Pacific region community OLPC Friends, dedicated to “sharing OLPC resources . . . throughout the Pacific reg...
Chuck Lawton at Wired writes about 2 years of...

An XO reflection, 2 years out

Chuck Lawton at Wired writes about 2 years of the XO, after getting his hands on one for the first time.   Some of the review is the normal shock of changing window managers and interface style...

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Hands-On: Viliv S10 Blade tablet netbook 03 September 2010

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Viliv has been on our radar for a while now and they graced one blogger with a demo unit of their S10 Blade tablet. UMPC Portal has a pretty comprehensive first look at this device and has a few things to say about it.As with other touchscreen tablets, it still has some ways to go in increasing touch responsiveness when using multitouch. It also doesn’t have palm rejection...
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IdeaPad S9/S10 owners rejoice – batteries available for purchase 03 September 2010

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We’ve touched on the IdeaPad S9/S10 netbook before on Connections, which seems to have a strong following in the community. People have been dropping in high performance SSD’s and even hacking Apple’s Mac OSX onto our tiniest IdeaPads. Amidst the modding talk and bargain hunting discussion, we’ve seen a good amount of chatter about the optional 6 ce...
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2 years of XO hardware 03 September 2010

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Geekdad continues his series with a close look at the XO hardware – particularly distinguishing points that haven’t yet been picked up by other manufacturers.  And he touches briefly on the XO-1.5 and future designs. As netbook makers start to consider their designs for next year and work proceeds on the next generation of power and robustness for XO design, it&...
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Apple Buys Chip Designing Company 03 September 2010

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If there’s one thing that Apple prides itself on, it’s keeping all of their product lines “in-house”. It looks to be adding to that ideal by purchasing, PA Semi, a micro-processing chip designer company. Being reported by Forbes, Apple paid around $278 million for PA Semi. So just what is Apple gaining by this latest acquisition? Their iPhone, and iPod li...
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Kno Tablet Hands-on Video: Large But Not Quite in Charge 02 September 2010

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Would students carry and use this instead of a laptop or iPad? That’s the question I asked when I went hands on with the new Kno dual-screen tablet at the D8 conference. In some ways, it’s too early to call. The touch capability isn’t yet fully baked, and the stylus support isn’t yet activated. But the biggest question I have about the Kno is whether it&...
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MSI Wind U160 and U135 Showing Up on Italian Stores 02 September 2010

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So while our friends in France might soon be enjoying their new Asus Eee PC 1201T, those in Italy has a bundle of package from MSI – the MSI Wind U160 and MSI Wind U135.  We were just reporting that the MSI Wind U160 has started showing up on Newegg and now it is also being offered in some Italian online stores. It even brought along its brother, the MSI Wind U135.For the...
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