admin | October 29, 2009
This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Mark Sullivan, Ginny Mies, and Darren Gladstone celebrate our 50th episode with a feisty chat about the Windows 7 launch, Verizon Droid, the new dual-OS Acer netbook, and net neutrality.
Download the podcast here.
First up, Windows 7 launched to the world yesterday, and our opinionated editors [...]
admin | October 28, 2009
The Nook e-book reader announced by Barnes & Noble offers several novelties, including an Android OS, two screens and the ability for users to lend e-books, but its biggest impact could be on the widely rumored tablet computers expected from Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch told reporters in a conference [...]
admin | October 27, 2009
PC makers will ship new laptops on Thursday to coincide with the release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 in an effort to drum up excitement around the new OS.
Many have called Windows 7 the best and fastest operating system from Microsoft since Windows XP. PC makers intend to cash in on the hype surrounding the OS [...]
admin | October 26, 2009
Microsoft’s Windows 7 won’t be released until Thursday, but that isn’t stopping online retailers from selling desktops, laptops, and netbooks loaded with the new OS today, at prices as low as $350 a PC. Best Buy, for example, is selling more than 40 different Windows 7 laptop configurations you can buy right now. But there [...]
admin | October 25, 2009
You can get a deeply discounted netbook from either AT&T or Verizon, as long as you’re willing to sign up for a two-year data plan; but no matter which service provider’s netbook deal you choose, the price will be about the same. We saw similar price parity when we conducted our cost-of-ownership study of popular [...]
admin | October 22, 2009
Engadget’s Ross Miller is attending CEATAC in Tokyo–it’s the Consumer Electronics Show of Japan, only far weirder–and among the gizmos he’s encountered is a prototype of a netbook with two screens (photo borrowed from Engadget):
My instinctive response to dual-screen laptops of all sorts (which I wrote about here) is that they take the best thing [...]
admin | October 21, 2009
Acer, the world’s third largest PC vendor, on Wednesday announced two of its most highly anticipated products with Google’s Android mobile operating system on board, the Liquid smartphone and an Aspire One netbook.
Acer Liquid is a touchscreen smartphone running Android version 1.6, formerly codenamed Donut and the latest upgrade to the software. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset [...]
admin | October 20, 2009
I don’t quite understand Nokia’s thinking, but the company has made it official that its Booklet 3G, its first true netbook PC (or any type of full PC for that matter) will come to the states through AT&T and Best Buy on October 22. Entering into the increasingly crowded netbook space could be risky for [...]
admin | October 20, 2009
Perot Systems will buy the China unit of technology consultancy BearingPoint, bulking up its overseas business as the company is acquired by Dell.
Perot will acquire BearingPoint China Consulting, which serves clients in the automotive, insurance and other sectors, the companies said in a statement that did not give the value of the deal. The announcement [...]
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