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Netbooks: Buy now or wait?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Intel Atom, NVIDIA Ion, AMD Neo and VIA Nano – do you buy a new netbook today, or is there something much better waiting just around the corner? In a way, the netbook market today is a microcosm of the full-size laptop market as it was five years ago: there’s the potential for significant leaps in capability, as manufacturers and chipset OEMS find their feet in the budget ultraportable niche. Nobody wants to waste their money, but most of us would also like a new toy sooner rather than later. SlashGear picks out the next big thing in netbooks, and helps answer the eternal computing question: buy now or wait?

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Ex-Apple PR delivers Palm’s IP response

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 23rd 2009 No Comments

palm apple fight Palm’s response to Apple today was notable for a few reasons. The obvious was their no-blink attitude, facing up to notoriously-litigious Apple and, in effect, telling them to put their lawsuit money where their IP mouth is. Less obvious, but a whole lot more amusing, is Palm’s choice of spokesperson: Lynn Fox, currently vice-president of public relations at Palm, and formerly head of Mac PR at Apple.

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DTV: Just switch off analog already, says Sony

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 20th 2009 No Comments

old tv It feels like the analog to digital TV switchover has been talked about for decades, and it’s not just gearheads and consumers who are tired of it. Over at the Sony Electronics blog, they’re joining the clamoring crowds calling for the government to avoid putting off the inevitable any further, recognize that the millions of people who’ve used the $40 converter box coupons are the majority of those who actually need to, and get on with the switch.

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CES 2009 Wrap-Up: Vincent goes red-light rogue

By Chris Davies and Daniel Lim on Sunday, Jan 11th 2009 3 Comments

In a surprise career move, SlashGear co-founder Vincent Nguyen announced today that he would be leaving the technology blogging community and beginning a career in the adult industry. Speaking to a sparse crowd at the Sands Expo this morning, Nguyen described his waning interest in smartphones and iPods, and outlined his intention to bring quickfire lessons learnt in live-blogging to blue movies.

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Check out the on-set live action shots of Vincent in action after the cut

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AT&T network fail leaves Las Vegas furious

By Vincent Nguyen on Friday, Jan 9th 2009 No Comments

iphone no service As you’ll undoubtedly know, the SlashGear team – and thousands of our colleagues from the tech community – are in Las Vegas this week to cover CES 2009. When you attend an event like this, you come expecting certain frustrations; what you might not expect is your phone network to fail and leave many users unable to access voice, messaging or data services. Yet that’s what happened today, with AT&T’s network undergoing a spectacular fail.

Official statement from AT&T after the cut

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Happy Thanksgiving from SlashGear!

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 27th 2008 No Comments

It’s Thanksgiving today, and the SlashGear team will be taking a break to enjoy the day with family and friends. We’d like to say a big collective “thank you!” to all of the manufacturers, PR people and, most of all, you the readers, for keeping us informed, keeping us on our toes, and keeping yourselves opinionated! I’ve also been asking the team what they’d individually like to give thanks for; Vincent’s you can see here, the rest are behind the cut.

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SlashGear Holiday Gift Guide 2008

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 24th 2008 No Comments

The holiday season is almost upon us, Black Friday fast approaches, and the stress of what gift to buy friends and family is already weighing on most of our minds. The SlashGear team can’t come shopping with you, but what we can do is make some suggestions as to what the special people in your lives might like to find under the tree, whether they be geek, music lover, gamer or anything else. That’s right, it’s the SlashGear Holiday Gift Guide 2008!

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33% of connected users to have a MID by 2011; but what’s a MID?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 20th 2008 No Comments

mid apps According to the Institute for Mobile Markets Research (IMMR), come Q3 2011, 33-percent of the people who currently own or use a cellphone, smartphone or PC will have bought a MID [pdf link]. That’s quite a statement, considering Mobile Internet Device sales have been less than impressive up until now. However, this is another example of abbreviation confusion, with IMMR defining a MID as:

“MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices, are a new class of devices/PC’s that offer many of the features of a PC, but at 1-3lbs. are lightweight and portable enough to easily carry and use virtually anyplace, at any time.”

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TopTechGifts Holiday Guide gets some SlashGear suggestions

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 4th 2008 No Comments

Last Christmas Vincent sent me a 64MB flash memory key in the shape of a squirrel, but apparently his gift selecting skills have been polished in the meantime as he’s been asked to help TopTechGifts put together their 2008 Holiday Gift Guide. Suggesting possible presents can be tricky, but I’d wager that Vincent’s top ten will have at least a couple of items you’ll agree with.

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Have Sprint’s fortunes turned?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 3rd 2008 2 Comments

sprint logo Over the past year or so, it’s become almost customary to prefix mention of Sprint with the phrase “beleaguered carrier”. The cash-consuming Nextel merge and WiMAX XOHM roll-out both took their toll on the company coffers, while users complained of lacking customer service. Has Sprint managed to turn things around in the tail-end of 2008, however? Recent research into telephone support found that Sprint was the fastest carrier to answer its phones: more than 91-percent of calls in 30 seconds or less, and 99-percent in two minutes or less.