Archive for June 2nd, 2008

Gigabyte’s M704 UMPC gets reviewed and unboxed

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs Quite a bit has gone down since November of last year, but if your memory is sharper than a tack, chances are you haven't forgotten about the M704. This stylish UMPC from Gigabyte was recently acquired, unboxed and reviewed by Mobile01, but we'll go ahead and ...

Rumor: Sony Ericsson to buy HTC. HTC: nope, it’s untrue.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones So the backstory goes something like this: Swedish publication Elektroniktidningen were looking forward to a meeting with HTC, but the meeting was delayed due to talks of some sort of merger with Sony Ericsson. Everyone panicked: Could HTC be bought by Sony Ericsson? They've already worked together on ...

Analyst says Nintendo deliberately redirecting Wii Fit to Europe

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Filed under: Gaming While the supposed Wii Fit shortages are nothing compared to the now infamous Wii shortages we've seen, at least one of those ever-insightful analysts now claims to deduced the cause of them, and he's laying the blame squarely on the big N. According to Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael ...

Toshiba says its 1GB MRAM chips are “almost ready,” we’re ready now

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Filed under: Storage It wasn't long ago that IBM promised to unleash its racetrack MRAM (magnetoresistive RAM) on a power and speed-hungry computing public, but now Toshiba says its 1GB MRAM chips are "almost ready". The chips use Spin-RAM (STT-RAM) and Toshiba fully expects them to take over where DRAM left ...

Microsoft warns hardware makers to begin Windows 7 testing ASAP

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops It may not even have a firm release date just yet, but it looks like Microsoft is already taking a pretty hard line on Windows 7, with it reportedly now warning hardware makers to begin testing their devices on the OS as soon as the first beta ...