Electronics are again among the most desirable gifts for the coming holiday season, according to the results of a Consumer Reports holiday shopping poll, in which a nationally representative sample of 1,250 adults were interviewed on home or cell phones in mid-October.
Here are five hot electronics items — products that embody what’s [...]..Read More »
The US technology titan’s Internet-based in-house system is called Blue Insight and is designed to enable IBM’s 200,000 employees to swiftly find answers or patterns in mountains of information.
“I expect this first-of-its-kind approach will help drive both new growth opportunities as well as have a significant impact in cost savings,” said IBM chief information officer [...]..Read More »
Intel’s new firmware and toolkit for its new X25 line of solid state disks (SSDs) delivered a massive improvement in their already blisteringly fast performance this week, with increased write speed and a near-elimination of usage-induced performance degradation. The update also included support for the Windows 7 “trim” feature, which will boost SSD’s speed and [...]..Read More »
Tempted by that $250 netbook? Not so fast. A netbook is fine for a little light Web surfing and e-mail. The problem: Multimedia is now part of the computing mainstream. Just sorting through your photo library and bopping movies and music from your notebook to your media player can tax your computer’s capabilities.Your notebook needs [...]..Read More »