Will the Kindle DX change the way we look at books?

Amazon pulls out a really interesting release with the Kindle DX. While there were rumors of a larger Kindle I don’t ever remember reading about native PDF support. This is the big killer for it. On a 9.7-inch screen with native PDF support that means you no longer need a printer to view your PDF [...]

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According to Consumer Reports MacBooks are best

So Consumer Reports is saying the MacBooks are best. Now remember though that this is from the users. Most though should take this as a grain of salt. I mean many of the Mac users that respond to this are the type that if Steve Jobs released a brick saying it somehow gave you telepathy [...]

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Itanium not doing as bad a SPARC

I generally don’t talk about CPU architectures since it seems to be something you really care about or something you pretty much ignore. As you an guess I really find CPU architectures rather interesting. In the past I wrote about an article talking about Itanium not living up to its promise and guess what it’s [...]

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EU wants ICANN completely private

The EU is calling for ICANN to become a completely private entity. This is brought up since at the end of September the current operating agreement that ICANN works under in the U.S. will run out. Now I can understand part of why the EU wants some control but their proposal is confusing. What they [...]

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Ever wonder why text messaging is so limited?

The Los Angels Times wrote a good article covering this exact subject. The quick answer is that text messages are 160 characters because that is the amount of space they could erk out of the control channel for cell phones. Of course this also explains the reason why the character set for text messages is [...]

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Another look at Windows being on ARM

OSNews brought up once again the idea of Microsoft making a version of Windows for the ARM architecture. In the past I have pointed out that if Microsoft doesn’t that they will eventually fall behind in the netbook market. This is caused by the fact that ARM netbooks are looking like they will not only [...]

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Interesting OLPC story

So today I was doing my normal reading around the different Linux planets. For those who don’t know a planet is a aggregator for blogs that many Linux distros use to aggregate all their developers blogs into one stream. I tend to go around randomly and read the planets for gentoo, debian, ubuntu and fedora [...]

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India buying OLPCs

India which earlier this year made a fancy AC adapter for $30 that they called a computer has now ordered 250,000 OLPC laptops. This could be the break that OLPC has been looking for since they saw a bit less enthusiasm then they originally expected. The real question though is what version of the XO [...]

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ThinkPad netbooks?

Lenovo has stated that it is looking into making a ThinkPad netbook. This of course is more then just a normal rebranding of a preexisting netbook though. Lenovo has been trying to keep the ThinkPad brand as pure as it can recently and has gone so far as to fix problems with the keyboards in [...]

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ReactOS 0.3.9 released

ReactOS has made another release. I figured now was a good time to point this out with Windows 7 being on everyones mind. ReactOS is a attempt to create a OS that can be compatible with Winodws Vista and Windows Server 2003. The most interesting part though of ReactOS is the elegance that they are [...]

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