Author Archive for Chris Davies
Casio has announced a number of new projectors, intended for the boardroom but compact enough to make them tempting to road-warriors and the occasionally entertained, too. All fitting into the Super Slim range, the four new models include two with “Super Color” technology and two with “Super Bright”; they each have a 2x power zoom, [...]
An unnamed internal ASUS source has confirmed that the company is planning a 3G version of the Eee budget ultraportable, intended for the European market. ASUS was already known to be preparing a WiMAX equipped Eee for the US, but the Euro version will presumably come with HSDPA/HSUPA suited for the 3G frequencies used.
Transmissive LCD panels are nothing particularly new - they basically reflect sunlight back through the panel so as to mimic the effect of a traditional backlight, and as such make the screen usable outdoors - but Casio’s latest attempt is so efficient it doesn’t require any supplementary backlighting at all. Named Blanview LCD, the system boasts [...]
It only really took Vista to make thousands of geeks look more fondly at Windows XP, and so Microsoft’s announcement that it would be maintaining the last-gen OS for use on low-power netbooks was well received. The devil, of course, is in the details, and that’s an area Microsoft excels in: one of their more [...]
Creative’s latest PMP has been spotted by multiple sources, including a detail-scant FCC test report [pdf link] and a few leaked photos. The upcoming media player, called the ZEN X-Fi, is said to include WiFi, instant messaging, a built-in FM radio and speaker, and Creative’s sound-fettling X-Fi technology. Storage is either 8, 16 or 32GB, plus there’s an SD [...]
Data Robotics has released an SDK for their Drobo robotic RAID array. The Drobo, which we reviewed in August last year, attempts to make backup and data redundancy straightforward by automating much of the RAID process; while it initially was intended for connection to a single PC, the company subsequently released a networking component called DroboShare. With the [...]





