Archive for October, 2008
Netbooks galore
Everybody’s getting into the act. It looks like netbooks are going to be part of the PC line from all major OEMs (and some not so major). HP and Lenovo have announced new models and eWeek gives a rundown on some of the latest offerings.
The latest HP model is getting a lot of attention. [...]
Another battery recall
Lithium ion batteries from Sony are giving problems again. eWeek reports:
Sony, along with Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell, are recalling as many as 100,000 laptops worldwide that used faulty, Sony-made lithium-ion battery packs. In the U.S., this could impact about 35,000 notebooks that were sold between 2004 and 2006. So far, the U.S. Consumer Product [...]
A little sanity in patents
I have often railed about the inanity of some of the patents that have been granted for things that were really just procedural changes, mathematical algorithms, or even more trivial methods like clicking a mouse once instead of twice. The appeals court that deals with patents has finally begun to see the light. It has [...]
