Palm sized PC
This has to be the smallest the PC in the world, it measures a tiny two inches square, uses a 300 MHz processor, 1 Gb of flash memory and 64 Mb of DDR SDRAM, all wrapped up in a metal casing.
This may not be the most powerful computer in the world, but it can still [...]
The best free email account
Every computer user has their own opinions of the email free accounts that they use, but has there ever been an evaluation of them?
Well there has now and although this not the definitive test, it seems that Google’s Gmail has come out on top for the following reasons:
Gmail spam filters block 99% of the spam
Keep [...]
Online ID mistakes
For some people going online is a new experience, which means that all of the security scares that have affected many internet users over the years have gone unnoticed by them. This is why there are so many people being caught out by the scammers.
The surprising thing is that many of these people are being [...]
The problem with MobileMe
Apple boss Steve Jobs has admitted in a company email that releasing the application MobileMe at the same time as the iPhone could have been a mistake. The company really had their hands full with the launch of these products, which if they went off ok, then everything would have been fine, but they didn’t.
Now [...]
Digg and FaceBook connected
All FaceBook users can automatically become Diggers at the click of a button. This is because there have been a partnership agreement made between the two organisations recently as many people use one or the other, but not always both services.
Members of FaceBook will see a Digg connection feature which when clicked on will use [...]
Apple moves up the table
Computer giant and innovator Apple have climbed up the US computer charts to become the third largest PC seller in America.
Apple has seen some serious growth over the past year, in fact they see a rise of over thirty eight per cent in growth, with sales of nearly one and half million units being sold [...]
A million 3G iPhones sold
It Apple around seventy five day to sell a million original iPhones last year, with the latest 3G model this figure was achieved in only three days. This has to be by anybodies standards a massive achievement and just goes to show the excellent PR job that the first iPhone had done.
Although it [...]
The Spam experiment
McAfee the computer security firm have been conducting an experiment, firstly they needed fifty volunteers who would be given a free computer and the user were to see how much spam they received, but to make it worse they had to reply to the spam messages to see what would happen.
Although the results are due [...]
iGoogle turns social
Many users of Google and in particular the personalised pages of iGoogle would have noticed that the page has changed somewhat over the past few years of so. In fact with Google looking to add features which can only be described as social tools, then, is this the direction that Google is heading for?
To add [...]
The small green computer
Although it may not be green in colour, the CherryPal mini laptop is considered to be an eco friendly computer, why? Simply because it is easy on the power, and will not be using stacks of electricity to keep it going.
Features:
Freescale’s MPC5121e mobileGT processor, 800 MIPS (400 MHz) of processing
256MB of DDR2 DRAM
4GB NAND Flash-based [...]