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NVIDIA Ion 2 now official; Acer, ASUS and Lenovo at the ready

admin | March 1, 2010

NVIDIA’s Ion 2 chipset — or “the next generation of Ion” as the company clunkily calls it — hasn’t exactly been a secret, but NVIDIA is finally signing on the dotted line and giving up the deets on the new Intel Atom-compatible graphics chipset. It hasn’t been a secret that Ion 2 uses NVIDIA’s new [...]

Rosum’s Alloy chip promises ‘precise’ location using TV signals

admin | March 1, 2010

Though plenty of firms (including some big ones) have been trying to commercialize consumer-facing indoor positioning technologies for years, none have succeeded on a wide scale — which certainly seems to leave the door wide open for a system that actually works to be wildly successful, doesn’t it? Rosum has been toying with the idea [...]

Netgear brings the goods to CeBIT: HD streamers, HomePlug AV adapters

admin | March 1, 2010

Another month, another blockbuster trade show. CeBIT’s show floor doesn’t open up until tomorrow (and yeah, we’ll be storming it like no other), but Netgear’s wasting precisely no time in unveiling its latest wares. The two pieces that are nearest and dearest to our hearts are the WNHDB3004 and WNHDB3004, the former of which is [...]

10 Things Android Does Better Than Symbian

admin | March 1, 2010

I’ve been using an Android-powered HTC Eris from Verizon for over a month now, and it’s been quite an interesting experience. I’ve wanted to check out an Android-powered smartphone for a while now, and honestly, I was dead convinced that after using one, I would hate Symbian forever. While that’s obviously not true, I have [...]