Following Apple’s moves is a complex but fun and stimulating activity so here’s my take on the big, crazy, risky business of predicting where Apple will move. I think they will move up the Ipod chain rather than down the notebook chain and here’s why. Netbooks are cheap and in my head, I just can’t get past that simple thought. Apple can’t make a netbook as it would seriously risk de-valuing every other product in their portfolio and, due to the required sales numbers and relative complexity of OS X, […]

Mapfactor’s Navigator is a well-priced, touchscreen friendly EU and U.S. PC-based turn-by-turn navigation system that I tested last year and gave the thumbs up. At 120 Euros its very well priced and it works very well on UMPCs. Version 8.1 is now out and has these new features over the V7 that I tested. Maps from July 2008 – Including map of Bulgaria and Malta. 100% coverage for Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Very good improvement of maps of Turkey, Latvia and Russia. New remote (TCP/IP) commands for communication between driver […]

Our friends over at Liliputing are giving away a ton of PC kit. 6 grands worth to be precise. I know you only want the HP Mini 1000 so hop on over, drop an entry in their forum and when you win, send the unwanted stuff over here! Liliputing HP Magic Giveaway: Enter to win $6000 worth of stuff!

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Ben reported on the new MSI netbooks recently and highlighted that MSI will use the Z530 and Poulsbo chipset, the Menlow platform, originally designed for MIDs, and not the existing netbook platform. New information is now available via an interview with LaptopMag

ARM, Sony, ASUSTek, Garmin. These and most of the other 10 companies that have just joined the OHA are big names. The OHA is becoming a must-join, 47-member organisation! Its difficult to work out what it all means though. Many of these members will be offering code and resource but how many of them are committed to building devices based on OHA code, Android? ARM and Intel for example, will be there because they want their platforms to be used by as many people as possible. Offering code and contact […]

We’ve got the ASUS R50 for testing. Ben’s done the unboxing photos and provides his first impressions.

We’ve been waiting for this ever since we got a whisper from a reseller that it was being developed and the reason is that it could be a significant product for many carriers and a great product for mobile computing types.  The Mifi handheld 3G router is battery powered and allows you to connect to a mobile 3G connection and then share that out via WiFi. The press release has some interesting content. Take this for example: “an intelligent, open platform capable of hosting advanced software applications and flexible enough […]