“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant.” – Google Europe’s John Herlihy, 2010
Google’s a great company with typically great foresight. Having recognized the significant market trends that drive its industry, such as the rise of mobile Internet usage on smartphones, Google adapted its core business model from one providing search based advertising into [...]
Previous Posts in the ‘PCs and Laptops’ Category
In Defense of the Desktop Computer
March 4th, 2010
Posted in Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops 
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, desktop, desktop computer, Google, mobile computing, PC, smartphone 
No Comments »Kingston’s 256GB USB Flash Drive…Are You Scared Yet?
February 19th, 2010
Here’s a perfect example of a product being developed for no practical reason other than to prove that it can be done. Don’t get me wrong, 256GB of flash storage squeezed into a USB thumb drive is technologically cool and all, but in the infamous words of former Philadelphia Eagles’ running back Ricky [...]
Posted in Flash Memory, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: Flash Memory, Kingston DataTraveler 310, USB thumb drive No Comments »All in one 4G WiMAX and LTE
February 18th, 2010
With the pace of technology moving as fast as it does, early adopters often find themselves committed to one of several competing technologies that may not survive to large scale maturity (think HD-DVD vs Bluray). Because of this, it’s really easy to appreciate devices that combine compatibility between rival platforms, thus offering a hedge to [...]
Posted in Internet, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Web Technology, Wireless Tags: 4G, Beceem, LTE, Motorola, WiMAX No Comments »Texas Instruments Lands Quadruple Play with WiLink 7.0 Single Chip Solution
February 9th, 2010
Texas Instruments today announced its WiLink 7.0 chip, thus continuing the miniturization and convergence of mobile devices. The WiLink 7.0 chip, the “industry’s first offering to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive, and Bluetooth technologies” is up to half the size of earlier integrated wireless radio solutions. And because it’s a single chip [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Phones, Wireless Tags: Bluetooth, FM, GPS, single chip, Texas Instruments, WiFi, WiLink 7.0, wireless No Comments »The Apple iPad: Game Changer or Just Another Player?
January 27th, 2010
So here it is. The iPad. Cool new gadget? Definitely. Industry game changer? Probably not. Although the hype leading up to today’s product announcement was unprecedented, I don’t think the product released today will indefinitely sustain it. Sure, early adopters may make for “buzz-generating” TV shots of crowded Apple stores with long [...]
Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple
January 27th, 2010
There’s nothing like a good corporate battle. While potentially costly to the participants, the benefits to consumers include lower prices, better, and more diverse products. This competition is the foundation upon which the capitalist world is built, and spurs the innovation that drives society forward.
As worldwide adoption and usage of computers and the Internet [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Technology Tags: Apple, Bing, Chrome, Chrome OS, DROID, Google, Google Docs, Google Maps, iPhone, iPod, Microsoft, Nexus One, OS X, Windows, ZuneHD 3 Comments »Google Adds Chrome Extension for Google Voice
January 23rd, 2010
Google Chrome is quickly becoming the best web browser available, as evident by its steadily increasing pace of adoption by web users and its installation on new PCs by companies like Sony. It’s faster, more secure, and less resource intensive than IE and Firefox. And having recently enabled extensions, which can selectively add tons of useful [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Software, Web Browsers, Web Technology Tags: Chrome Extensions, Google, Google Chrome, Google Voice No Comments »The fit-PC2 “fits” anywhere…
January 14th, 2010
There’s just something cool about small form factor computers. Maybe it’s their testament to the progressive advancement and miniaturization of technology. Or maybe it’s their extremely low power requirements. And one can’t deny their inherent practicality. Despite any specific reason, I just couldn’t resist the fit-PC booth at the 2010 CES, in which CompuLab [...]
WiGig Alliance Completes Specification for Some Seriously Fast Wireless Networking
December 10th, 2009
You have to love wireless networks. They’re so easy to setup and use, which is one of the primary reasons for their popularity versus other networking techniques, such as powerline and traditional wired Ethernet. But accompanying the convenience of wireless networking comes risks inherent to the technology, such as the ease of cracking modern wireless [...]
WPA Cracker Service Now Available
December 8th, 2009
Remember the Japanese researchers that came up with a technique to crack WPA pre-shared keys (PSK) in just a few minutes, thus in theory making most of the world’s WiFi networks with TKIP encryption instantly insecure? If that story’s academic nature didn’t make you lose sleep over your own WiFi network insecurities, maybe this one [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Wireless Tags: WiFi, wireless security, WPA, WPA Cracker No Comments »
