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Nortel uses Unreal Engine and Lands Lenovo as a customer of web.alive

Apparently, my skepticism over Nortel web.alive was lost on Lenovo since Nortel and Lenovo today announced the first-ever customer to its web.alive Virtual World Application. Lenovo uses web.alive to let shoppers browse, demo and interact with other shoppers and Lenovo... Full Story

Posted on January 8, 2009 2:59 PM

Wow! A Quick Boot PC -- About Time!

It is the black hole of the digital age -- the three minutes it can take for your computer to boot up, when there is nothing to do but wait, and wait, and wait some more before you can log... Full Story

Posted on October 27, 2008 4:50 PM

HP Says Touch Me Now!

Hewlett-Packard (HP), aiming to boost its personal computer sales against arch rival Dell (and Lenovo and Apple, too), is increasingly turning to touch-screen technology.HP is now developing a consumer notebook with a touch screen that will debut before year end. It... Full Story

Posted on October 16, 2008 5:59 PM

Lenovo Celebrates 16 Years of ThinkPad

Lenovo is celebrating sixteen years of continuous ThinkPad innovation (most of them of course under the Big Blue of IBM) with -- what else? -- a sale.Lot of fun to look at the "Legends of ThinkPad" to see some of... Full Story

Posted on October 2, 2008 6:21 PM

Enter the Netbook

Lenovo today announced it is entering the "netbook" PC market with the new IdeaPad S10 netbook PC. Lenovo designed the super-slim, super-small IdeaPad S10 to complement a customer's primary PC or as a first-time, introductory PC purchase. The IdeaPad... Full Story

Posted on August 4, 2008 5:38 PM

Apple Takes Lead in $1K+ Computer Market

Everybody knows that Apple is kicking butt, and now research force NPD has reported huge growth in Apple's share of the so-called “premium” computer market — machines that cost more than $1,000. Less than 18% in January 2006, by... Full Story

Posted on May 19, 2008 8:21 PM

Singing the Notebook Battery Blues ...

Can I ever buy another notebook computer again? Or maybe they can just come up with better power supplies for notebooks -- you never hear about notebook recalls, only battery recalls. Lenovo's recent recall of 100,000 battery packs used in ThinkPad... Full Story

Posted on March 7, 2007 6:17 PM

Lenovo Taking Over Printer Market?

The computer printer market has been pretty much HP's for such a long time now it's hard to believe there's much competition (but don't tell Lexmark, Epson or Canon that ...) Now, in what could have seismic implications in this... Full Story

Posted on October 23, 2006 6:24 PM

More Sony Battery Woes -- As in 7 Million ... and Counting

7 million -- that's right.  That's what Sony's looking at with the latest news on a GLOBAL notebook battery recall. We've got Apple, we've got Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo (IBM) all facing problems with Sony's batteries in their notebook computers. I'd... Full Story

Posted on September 29, 2006 3:51 PM

A Hot One for Lenovo!!!

Holy flaming laptops Batman! Crazy stuff just keeps on happening in the saga of explodiing notebook computers.  Now we have Lenovo pledging today that public safety "will be the company's first priority" following an incident in which a Lenovo ThinkPad T43 laptop (with a Sony... Full Story

Posted on September 26, 2006 3:11 PM

(Green)Peace, Baby!

It's not easy being green, but gadget companies do have a sense of "eco-friendliness," according to Greenpeace, which has recently rated CE companies in its Green Electronics Guide. Apparently Nokia's decision to distance itself from PVC resulted in high marks in... Full Story

Posted on August 30, 2006 6:00 PM

How About a New Battery Standard?

With all of the noise about Dell's exploding batteries and increasing in-flight security precautions, isn't it about time that battery manufacturers got their act together to make better batteries?Well, it doesn't take along ... According to the always interesting AppleInsider, leading... Full Story

Posted on August 24, 2006 11:45 AM

Train Spotting

Maybe it's the intense heat (hot as blazes!), but seems to be a drop in gadget use on the train this morning. (I thought everyone was goin' mobile!) Last time, seems that just about half the commuters had some sort... Full Story

Posted on August 1, 2006 3:36 PM

2006 Best Design Awards: Business Week Has Them All

  You know, gadgets don't have to look cool to be cool, but it certainly helps. (Exhibit #1 please: the iPod). Well, if you love design and all things gadgets (and Beyond -- remember that from seeing Click! recently?), then... Full Story

Posted on July 10, 2006 9:48 AM

HP TVs and Lenovo PCs at Best Buy: Am I Seeing Correctly?

Interesting news the past couple of weeks about Best Buy adding flat-panel televisions from HP and Lenovo notebooksand desktop computers. Seems, on one hand, this would herald the return of TVs from a major U.S. manufacturer to the retail market. In case... Full Story

Posted on April 18, 2006 9:09 AM

Lenovo & ThinkPad Shaking Up Notebook World

It used to be that IBM’s ThinkPad was the Cadillac (Mercedes, Lexus – you fill in the blank) of notebook computers.  Prized foremost by road warriors (particularly of the business class), it always was held in high regard in our... Full Story

Posted on December 29, 2005 12:26 PM