It has been a while since niche consumer electronics manufacturer Apple launched an entirely new product, rather than revision recycles of already existing lines. Today marks the entrance of the Apple iPad, a touchscreen tablet PC that the company says will revolutionize the market. In terms of technical specs, the device is actually rather impressive [...]

NVIDIA Optimus technology to work on notebook platforms with NVIDIA GPUs while offering increased performance.   In the past, both NVIDIA and ATI have made inroads when it came to lowering the power consumption of their mobile solutions.  However, as notebook, tablet and netbook technology moves forward, users are putting more and more demands on theses [...]

Intel Corporation announced new Intel Atom processors today that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation of netbooks and Atom-based entry level desktop PCs. Major OEMs have committed to having systems on the new Intel® Atom™ processors and a new companion chipset [...]

This morning, many Blackberry users woke up without the ability to send or receive emails over their network.  This is being caused my a massive outage at one of RIM’s main facilities.  According to representatives Hardware Canucks contacted at Telus, Bell and Rogers here in Canada, the outage is not only confined to Canada but could [...]

ASUS today launched the Eee PC T91MT, the world’s first convertible tablet netbook to feature a multi-touch screen that supports Windows 7 Multi-Touch gestures. Particularly handy for students and professionals who need to take notes and make one-to-one presentations on a frequent basis, the slim and light Eee PC T91MT—which measures one-inch thick and weighs [...]

The MSI X-Slim X430 uses AMD’s latest second-generation Ultrathin Platform with dual-core processors and Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, to provide users with the ultimate in ultra-thin mobility. MSI’s ultra-thin, power-saving X-Slim 14″ notebook has evolved once again to feature AMD’s 2nd Generation Ultrathin Platform and Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system in the [...]

At Adobe MAX, Adobe’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated and NVIDIA Corporation today announced that both companies are bringing uncompromised browsing of rich Web content to netbooks, smartphones and smartbooks built with NVIDIA® GPUs. The companies have been working closely together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and dramatically improve performance [...]

For those using Thinkpad notebooks, take note, Lenovo is currently recalling and offering replacements for batteries of the following models that report “Irreparable damage” or “Battery cannot be charged” messages. Apperently the number of units experiencing this problem is far higher than normal, but has not been known to cause damage to the notebooks aside [...]

Many consumers have anxiously waited for the NVIDIA Ion to make its way into the netbook platform, and a month ago, Lenovo annouced it would be releasing the S12 Netbook in just that flavour. However, Lenovo is offering a whole new VIA approach, alongside the Ion. It is unquestionable that Intel’s Atom processors is dominating [...]

Further uniting the Internet with mobile phones and computers, Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity. To realize this shared vision, both [...]