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HP ProBook Range Upgraded
HP company has announced updates to its ProBook B and S ranges, targeted at small businesses. The ProBook B is available with either a 14-inch or 15.6-inch display, each with either dedicated or integrated graphics. The new Probook B-series chassis will be constructed out of tungsten-coated magenesium, making it more resistant to scratches or knocks. [...]
Asus Announces Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks
Asus has announced additions to its ultrabook range in a press conference in Taipai. The Asus Zenbook UX32A and UX32Vd will shortly be launched, sporting Ivy Bridge processors. The Zenbook UX32Vd will pack in a 1GB NVidia GeForce GT620M dedicated graphics card, complete with Intel Optimus switching for preserving battery juice. The UX32A will be [...]
Apple and Foxconn Improve Working Conditions
Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn are rumored to be sharing the expense of bettering work conditions for employees in Foxconn’s Chinese factories. Foxconn recently held a ceremony for its new Chinese headquarters, based in Shanghai, where a spokesman for the company said that improving factory conditions was ‘a competitive strength, not a cost.’ Foxconn [...]
HP EliteBook Folio – Preview
HP has entered the world of ultrabooks with its HP Folio 13.3-inch ultrabook in winter. HP has now released its first business-oriented ultrabook in the form of the EliteBook Folio. HP EliteBook Folio ultrabook offers the usual array of features found in consumer ultrabooks – SSD, ultra-slender and light chassis, i5/i7 CPU – but also [...]
Photoshop CS6 – Review
The most obvious change to the Creative Studio 6 version of Photoshop is the revamped interface – darker surrounding shades accentuate users’ images, and different brightness values can be set in Preferences to find your perfect modus operandi. New ‘Background Saves’ and ‘Auto-recovery’ should save budding artists and professionals alike the horror of wasted hours [...]
Angry Birds For Blackberry Update
Angry Birds Space was released on the Blackberry platform a couple of weeks back, and has now been updated to version 1.1, with a new Fry Me to the Moon level for those poultry-catapulting addicts who’ve already completed the first two levels. The menu layout has been tweaked, and the ‘Coming Soon’ teaser image is [...]
Google Maps Android Gets Indoor Navigation
Google Maps has been updated to version 6.7 for Android. Now users in Japan and the US can not only be get directions to a particular building, they can even get directions inside the building. And Google has slipped in a money-shot too – US residents can see Google Offers from nearby businesses, whether as [...]
Asus Eee PC 1011CX – Review
Some manufacturers have ceased producing netbooks, other continue, not least because there is still a market for ultra-portable, low-priced Windows machines. Asus has released the Asus Eee PC 1011CX , packing in a third-gen Cedar Trail N2600 processor – a 1.6GHz dual-core hyper-threaded chip with GMA 3600 integrated Intel graphics. Four execution threads should mean [...]
Evernote Hand-written Note-taking
The popular Evernote cloud note-taking service will soon be expanding its functionality after buying the Penultimate handwriting-recognition app. Evernote lets users save documents or notes in the cloud for later access using different devices, and has vowed to closely inttegrate the handwriting with its document storage capabilities. But the Penultimate HR app will continue to [...]
Apple Plans $799 Macbook Air
Apple is allegedly planning a $799 MacBook Air to shake up the ultrabook market. At that price, any new MacBook Air would be 200 bucks cheaper than the current Core i5 entry-level model. The rumors come from DigiTimes and claim the details were revealed by sources in Apple’s supply chain. Co-incidentally, Intel’s PC Group general [...]
