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30 January, 2012
Published by by James Hicks in Apple, Hardware
Tweet Since Apple won’t build it, we have to look to 3rd-party innovation to build us MacBook users that much need docking station. Now that I have moved over to a MacBook Air I’m especially intrigued by this latest Kickstarter project, that was at MacWorld|iWorld last week. It’s from an organization called LandingZone and after [...]
Tweet On Friday the 13th 2012, I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down for over an hour with Brook Drumm creator of printrbot . I took a drive a few miles down the road to Lincoln, CA to talk with Brook and see what the hype was all about. And by hype I mean [...]
8 December, 2011
Published by by James Hicks in Android, Hardware
Tweet Looks like Logitech is going to give us Revue owners a Christmas present and get our devices upgraded to the new Honeycomb OS before the end of this week. In a post published on their official blog, VP and General Manager of the Digital Home Group, Ashish Arora wrote that the update will be [...]
Tweet Amazon has recently announced the upcoming release of Kindle Fire, a device believed to be the biggest threat to Apple iPad. This phrase has been used so many times before, but none of them stood in the same league as iPad tablet. So, what exactly can we expect from Kindle Fire? Learning from other [...]
Tweet I love Fridays. Not enough to write a song about it, but I don’t mind doing a little skip and dance while anticipating the two days off from work. What I love more than Fridays is swag. The highlight of the tradeshows I attend is without a doubt the swag. My swag collection now [...]
21 August, 2011
Published by by Wayne Dixon in Hardware, Tech
Tweet News came down last week that HP was looking to “Evaluate Strategic Alternatives” for their Personal Systems Group (PSG). The personal systems group includes business and consumer PCs, mobile computing devices and workstations. This would include Business desktops and laptops, consumer desktops and laptops, and all WebOS-based devices. HP has laid out a couple [...]
2 August, 2011
Published by by James Hicks in Hardware, Tech
Tweet What’s actually comforting about this news is that there is a planned release of the Google TV 2.0 operating environment. I have a Logitech Revue and we use it daily (dare I state that my Apple TV sits idle more than the Google TV) That being said, it was nice to see a post [...]
Tweet The Pandigital E-reader Novel tried to become a full-color, value-for-money, Android-based e-reader which also doubles as a tablet. Unfortunately, it did not meet expectations. Its retail price of $200 is more expensive than Amazon’s Kindle e-reader ($139). If they try to contend with Apple’s iPad, it falls short as it is slower and lacks [...]
7 April, 2011
Published by by James Hicks in Hardware
Tweet That’s what Facebook is calling their new data center build program. Background Facebook has been leasing its data centers for the last 7 years, giving it no flexibility — Facebook technical VP Jon Heiliger likened it to living in his first apartment, where the landlord said that he could paint the walls any color [...]
7 April, 2011
Published by by Wayne Dixon in Hardware
Tweet Intel is known for making some excellent server chipsets with their Xeon line. The Xeon line goes back to 1998 with Intel’s single-core Pentium II Xeon Chip. Over the past 13 years Intel has increased the number of cores, and there by increasing capacity and capabilities, up to eight-cores with their 65XX and 75XX [...]
James Hicks on , January 16, 2012, 10:02 pm
