Apple's new iPad looks and feels almost exactly like the iPad 2, until your turn it on and start using it. The retina display, which has more pixels than your standard HDTV, is a wonder, and app developers have been scrambling to update th…

Apple's latest iPad drew die-hard fans to stores in the U.S. and nine other countries Friday, many of whom lined up for hours to be among the first to buy one.The third version of the iPad went on sale there at 8 a.m. local time, with 25 o…

A colleague asked me an interesting question the other day: "So I can get a free iPad 2, but should I get the new iPad?" Now, I don't anticipate many out there will have the chance to get a free iPad 2, but Apple has dropped the price of t…

Do a thorough backup before hitting the road, and carry a flash drive for backing up new and changed files on the road. Keep the flash drive in your pocket, not in the Notebook Computer bag. (You don't want your backup stolen with the Note…

An attractive option for many reasons, though, is to buy the laptop with Linux preloaded, as I've noted before. You typically pay a little bit more, but you also avoid any headaches that may arise from getting everything to "just work."Buy…

When Hewlett-Packard engineers begin designing a new laptop, they bring in the battery experts like John Wozniak on the very first day. That's part of what enabled HP to create a laptop with a 32-hour battery life.And that also tells you h…

People can inadvertently purchase a fake or sub-standard phone, through no fault of their own, by trying to find a cheaper price for a phone - especially on the internet," said Michael Milligan, Secretary General of the Mobile Manufacturer…

Chinese mobile giant Huawei became the largest Chinese smartphone provider by selling 20 million smartphones globally in 2011. But it has a more aggressive ambition - to climb to the list of world's top three smartphone providers, making i…

The Welsh Government has been accused by 20 scientists of giving children inaccurate information about using mobile phones.According to the scientists, an official information leaflet adopts an inappropriate tone and plays down the potenti…

- Although the Vietnam mobile phone market was unable to maintain its high growth rate as compared to the previous quarter, the market still performed well in 4Q11. Total mobile phone shipments in Vietnam enjoyed 13.6% growth quarter-on-qu…

Today CouponBuzz.com announced a coupon for $350 Off the Samsung Series 9 laptop, now available for just $999.97. This latest TigerDirect.com coupon was unveiled in the recently launched section of CouponBuzz.com dedicated to special offer…

Tablets have taken over the mobile world, because they are the best of all mobile worlds – smaller and lighter than laptops, and more useable than smartphones. It's also possible to get a better squ-412 battery life in your tablet than you…

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Summary: Battery life is the bane of the mobile professional's existence, and rightly so. Not only does using devices with good battery life make things easier, it can improve work in unexpected ways.Mobile device users obsess over battery…

The Mobile Turn? It may seem unremarkable that the hp 464059-121 battery hardware requirements for Linux distributions are on the rise — after all, that’s been the clear trend in the computing world in general for decades and decades, and …

The Lenovo ThinkPad T420 is a 14-inch notebook equipped with an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU. It's designed for business users. The Lenovo ThinkPad T420 is a 14-inch, business-focussed hp 451085-141 battery notebook. It has many of the features …

The Samsung Series 7 Chronos has the look and feel of a premium laptop. Its thin and well-built base houses plenty of features, its keyboard is backlit and comfortable to hit and it has a lovely, slot-loading DVD burner that just makes hp …

For years now, batteries have been the weak link in most consumer electronics. Take smart phones, for example. You can stream video in HD over a fast 4G data connection, but you won’t be able to do it for long without plugging in. The blaz…

FOR General Motors, a good deal of the company’s recovery from its brush with bankruptcy is riding on the Chevrolet Volt (Opel or Vauxhall Ampera in Europe), its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle launched a year ago. Not that GM expects the …

Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ABAT) ("ABAT"), a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of rechargeable Polymer Lithium-Ion (PLI) batteries as well as a wholesale batteries manufacturer of electric vehicles, toda…

Mugen Power, producer of high performance batteries for portable electronic devices, today released a new extended battery for Sony Ericsson Arc / Arc S (HLI-ARCXL). HLI-ARCXL successfully increases original capacity from 1500mAh to 3200mA…

Unofficial claims from notebook contractors pointed to there being a steeper than usual drop-off in notebook shipments for the wholesale batteries usual post-holiday drop. They expected a 10 to 15 percent slump, owed in acer laptop batteri…

Samsung Malaysia Electronics unveiled today its Acer Aspire One Battery 12 Cell premium Series 7 CHRONOS Notebook, which promises exceptional speed, maximum performance and high quality display. Encased in a thin and compact UM09H36 alumin…

This is an update of an article that originally appeared in Forbes' "Intelligent Investing" on November 13, 2009. I warn you: It's not going from bad to better; it's going to get worse and worser.We often live in a world of parables, metap…