After all the names thrown out for potential buyers of Palm Inc. it was announced that HP would be the one to actually complete the purchase. Hewlett Packard confirmed late last night that they will be purchasing Palm, Inc. for about $1 billion in cash. The purchase completes at $5.70 per share, which is more than 20% higher than Palm’s price per share previous to the announcement.
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HP Buys Palm
This wireless little gadget, which could be described as “a Wii controller with full-on keyboard functionality”, will serve as an all-in-one HTPC keyboard with a built-in accelerometer. With various hot keys, gaming-style shoulder buttons and a built-in accelerometer capable of interpreting tilts as up, down, left and right, the Air Keyboard is set to revolutionize the way you interact with your home theatre
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Wireless Mini Keyboard with Accelerometer
Another snooper stick is here to help you clean up your world. The ChatStick is a USB drive with a custom application loaded on it. The ChatStick , once inserted, launches its chat analysis software, which scans the computer in question, pulling all the logs of conversations, even deleted ones, onto the drive itself
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ChatStick, Perfect Snooper Drive to Complement Porn Detection Stick
It finally happened! Palm has finally threw in a towel in it’s desperate struggle, and gave itself up to HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Last year Palm bet the company on it’s new WebOS smartphone platform. And lost. So, despite management’s assurances to the contrary, it became clear recently that Palm has no chance of surviving as independent company. The only question was who will buy it.
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HP gets back into smartpone biz with a vengeance. Buys Palm for $1.2 billion
If you’ve heard of a little something called the iPad, then you’ll probably know it’s not available in the UK yet. But if you’re into the whole browsing the internet on a touchscreen computer idea – you may be…
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iPad rival – the JooJoo Internet Tablet – now on sale in UK
Lok-it has a new take on the padlock flash drive and wants to show it to you. They’ve added a rechargeable battery to the padlock drive which powers their in-line security system. The correct key sequence has to be entered before the drive will even show up as active hardware. The security system essentially prevents any communication from the host computer to the drive until the password is physically entered. As a result, this removes the easy options for snoops
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Lok-it Adds Electric Keypad to Secure Flash Drive
PopCap is celebrating 10 years of entertaining the masses with addictive game titles, would like its’ users to show their love and they will show you some love in return. Their games span from mobile devices, game consoles and personal computers and in many different variations on each
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PopCap Celebrates 10 Years with ‘Show Your Bejeweled® Love’ Contest
This tasty looking thing is the latest addition to the never ending stream of weird computer accessories. It’s a 4-port USB 2.0 compliant hub designed to look like a chicken burger. Features: USB 2.0 4-Port hub Chicken burger shaped design Made of Polyresin Fully compliant with USB 2.0 specification Backwards compatible with USB 1.1 Transfer rate up to 480Mbps Plug and play Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX and Linux Dimension: 88 x 88 x 60mm (approx.) Weight: 336g You can get your hands on the USB Chicken Burger 4-Port Hub ($19) over at USB Brando.
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Chicken Burger USB Hub
According to a new Information Technology Research report from Business Monitor International (BMI), the leading, independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering, the Russian IT market is expected to start to recover in 2010 from a significant contraction in spending on IT products and services in 2009. In 2010, the Russian IT market is forecast to grow to US$15bn, up substantially on 2009. Growing computer penetration, government ICT projects and rich potential for IT spending by Russia’s traditional industries could drive an increase in IT spending per capita from around US$107 in 2010 to US$190 by 2014, the report says.
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Russia Information Technology Report Q2 2010: Russian IT market is on the Rise
Wi-Fi Sync is an iPhone app that we are absolutely hoping and praying makes it into the App Store. Why? Well, take a look at the video above. Basically, it solves a problem that we’ve been begging Apple to solve for years now—we want to be able to sync our devices with our computers over the network, rather than having to be tethered to a USB connection just to get our latest tunes and apps onto our phones and iPads
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Wi-Fi Sync: Wireless iPhone and iPad syncing app
Apple set up some pretty high expectations with its promise of a “revolutionary and magical” device. Based on our experience and most reviews the iPad meets many of its lofty expectations. iPad is the first mobile device that comes close to being a laptop replacement. Understanding the internals becomes important to either help troubleshoot your iPad or make a decision about whether to buy one. In the last article in our iPad F AQ series we tackle the most common questions about the technology running Cupertino’s game-changing tablet
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Decoding the iPad – We Answer Your Questions about iPad Technology
It’s fortunate that we all have the ability as humans to grow, mature and learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the ability to adapt and learn. This fundamental principle not only applies to “macro” topics like culture; it applies to the little things as well.
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Why KIN and Windows Phone 7 Can Succeed – Getting User Experiences
It’s the ultimate science project: 8 students, assisted by Tom Atchison and the Rocket Mavericks team, will attempt to design, launch and operate a rocket using new Sony® VAIO notebooks with Intel Core Processors . Launch details inside. On launch day, the Sony VAIO will be the Mission Control for the launch. It will operate GPS tracking, telemetry, avionics monitoring, video and anything else the team can imagine
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Can 8 Students Use a Sony® VAIO to Launch a Rocket into the Stratosphere?
Peeking into an employee’s Web mail accessed on a company computer during work hours can be illegal–at least in New Jersey, according to that state’s Supreme Court. In a 7-0 decision, the judicial panel upheld a lower court ruling that sanctioned a company for collecting email messages between an employee and her attorney stored on the employee’s company computer. “Finding that the policies undergirding the attorney-client privilege substantially outweigh the employer’s interest in enforcement of its unilaterally imposed regulation, we reject the employer’s claimed right to rummage through and retain the employee’s emails to her attorney,” the appellate court ruled in its decision upheld by the state’s high court.
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Peeking into employee’s email can be no-no
Boosted by an increase in iPhone and Mac shipments, Apple reported a 90 percent increase in quarterly profits Tuesday. The company reported net profit of US$3.07 billion for the quarter ended on March 27, which compares to profits of $1.62 billion from the same quarter a year ago. The company reported earnings per share of $3.33, which beat expectations of $2.45 from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters
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Apple Profile Increase 90 Percent
Gmail is the fastest mean of mailing system nowadays. But attaching a file seems a very tedious task, as you have to click “attach a file” option and then browse the particular file, which is a little bit time consuming. So, here is the solution for you now. Now gmail has extended its functionality by providing drag-and-drop file attachment feature. With this functionality now users can drag-and-drop photos, documents, spreadsheets and other files from their computer to Gmail.
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New "Drag-and-Drop File Attachment" Feature Made Gmail More Powerful
The Garmin Forerunner 305 is a second generation GPS watch for runners and bikers that can help document your training and get the most out of the process. The GPS watch is able to track progress through its GPS functionality while also offering readouts like pace, distance and speed. The heart rate monitor allows you to keep that dataset too
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Garmin Forerunner 305 – Running Cheap These Days
Eurocom, the world’s leading developer of highly personalized, high-performance notebook PCs and energy efficient All-in-One PCs, updated the EUROCOM D900F Panther Mobile Workstation to support the newest line of 32nm Intel 6-cores processors and D900F Panther Mobile Server to support line of XEON W56xx processors. EUROCOM Phantom series is perfect for Software and Database Developers, Graphics, Photography, Gaming, 3D Modeling, CAD, CAM, CAE, Digital Content Creators, engineeres and anyone demanding maximum power, storage and video, or Mobile Server platform running Microsoft Hyper-V capable to virtualize and run any O/S from Windows 7 or Server 2008 up to Red Hat or Solaris. The EUROCOM D900F PANTHER Mobile Workstation combines Eurocom engineering, Intel horsepower, and professional nVidia Quadro FX 3800M OpenGL graphics in a package that can easily handle demanding engineering and visualization workloads. It delivers 64-bit workstation-class performance and functionality in a mobile form factor with laptop convenience, anywhere you go
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Eurocom D900F Panther Notebook gets 6-cores processors
We are conducting our lives and our businesses in an increasingly mobile world. We need access to our critical business information from multiple locations and using multiple devices. These needs often clash with the requirement to keep our data secure. Exchange Servers are kept behind corporate firewalls which restrict who can access them and how they can connect to their mailboxes. Secure mobile access to mailboxes on Exchange Servers is typically achieved through one or more of these methods: Virtual Private Network (VPN) Outlook Anywhere Outlook Web App (OWA) ActiveSync Virtual Private Networks A VPN is a secure communications tunnel established between two endpoints. These endpoints can be two devices such as routers or firewalls, or can be between a client device such as a laptop and a firewall
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4 Ways to Access Exchange Server Mailboxes through Firewalls
On Saturday, Apple released it’s new device, the iPad. I didn’t pre-order one, but I thought I would stop by our local Best Buy to see if I could snag one. If the line was too long I would just go home. Well, as I arrived at the building a mere 15 minutes before opening, I was ninth in line. I saw footage on TV later in the day that showed hundreds of people in lines at various locations around the states and Chicago in particular
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The iPad changes the game.
The iPad is available since yesterday morning. Beside our IT&T review there were already reviews published by other blogs. Here’s a roundup of the review verdicts, with links to the originals: PC Magazine “Is the iPad a perfect product? No
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iPad Review: Roundup of Available iPad Reviews