Weekend Open Forum: What's your preferred mobile phone platform and handset?
In the past three years we've seen a number of new smartphone operating systems burst onto the scene. From Apple's wildly successful iPhone OS, to Google's increasingly popular Android and Palm's praised yet still floundering WebOS -- to name a few. Microsoft is no stranger to the market either, but just recently the company took a radical departure from its previous business-centered strategy and...
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Active Media Products intros Aviator-2 USB 3.0 enclosure
Active Media Products rolled out its small form factor Aviator-2 external drive enclosure earlier this week. The Aviator-2 is a rugged steel case that measures just over 3 x 5 inches, uses the latest-generation USB specification, and can accommodate 2.5-inch SATA II storage drives -- meaning both mechanical and solid-state devices. While the company sells the enclosure alone for $34.95, it can als...
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OnLive gets demoed, launch details coming 'soon'
Founder and CEO of OnLive, Steve Perlman, demonstrated the potential of his forthcoming on-demand cloud-based gaming service at DICE Summit yesterday, and to the surprise of many, it worked without hitch. The premise of OnLive may seem too good to be true, but while on stage the technology reportedly performed well.
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Fermi mass production pushed to May or later
After unveiling a fake Fermi card, shrugging off AMD's lead, and months of uncertainty, Nvidia has provided a few details about the mass availability of its next-generation graphics cards. During a conference call, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that Fermi would hit "full stride" in the second quarter of fiscal 2011 -- or May to July of 2010.
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Via's dual-GPU graphics card supports eight displays
Via subsidiary S3 Graphics has introduced the S3 Graphics Chrome 5400E x2, a dual-GPU graphics card designed for multi-display setups.
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High school uses notebook webcams to spy on students
The parents of a Lower Merion high school student have filed suit against the district for using school-issued laptops to spy on kids. The school rigged notebooks with software that lets officials remotely view and capture images with the built-in camera -- a mechanism that was supposedly greatly misused. The plaintiff's child claims to have been disciplined in school for "improper behavior" at ho...
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Microsoft to begin deploying browser ballot next week
Microsoft is getting ready to comply with its part in an antitrust settlement with the European Commission over the choice of web browsers in Windows. Starting on February 22, the company will begin deploying the infamous ballot screen that will let Windows users in Europe pick which of the five most popular web browsers -- Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and IE -- they want to install and use as ...
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Corsair unveils PIN-protected Flash Padlock 2 USB drive
Keeping sensitive data safe from prying eyes is a big concern when it comes to portable storage. Should your USB flash drive fall into the wrong hands the consequences could be disastrous -- or embarrassing to say the least. With that in mind Corsair introduced the original Flash Padlock back in 2007, featuring a keypad right on the enclosure that allowed users to access their secured data by ente...
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