The sales saga continues!
If your student hasn’t headed back to the books already, they certainly will in the next few weeks. And unless you’ve raised a Tracy Flick, they’ll probably kick, scream, and claw all the way there.
When we decided to send 30 XO laptops to the village of Quessoborgo in Mali we were confident that the children would love the laptops, but the teachers were another story. While we worked with the principal of the Primary School Of Ntentou in our plan to donate the laptops, we were aware of the fact that many of the 3rd and 4th grade teachers had never used a laptop before.
We just had a hands-on with the Peek, a new device that resembles a smart phone but is strictly dedicated to serving up your e-mail. Sound dumb? To you, it should. The device is targeted strictly at non-techies that don’t have e-mail on their phones and don’t care to figure it out, either. It even says “not for hardcore techies” right on the box.
It is no shock that ASUS has been growing its Eee PC family, but some leaked pictures seem to indicate that ASUS isn’t only looking at low-cost mini-notebooks, but is also targeting the higher end netbook buyer.
We’ve reviewed Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements — a photo and video editor, respectively, for mainstream users– and loved them both. Today, Adobe released the latest versions, along with Photoshop.com, an online editor/storage site. Photoshop.com will also have tips, tutorials, and a variety of seasonal templates and other content.
On the heels of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 7 and Premiere Elements 7 launch, Roxio has unveiled Creator 2009,
an all-encompassing media suite allowing users to edit photos and videos, as well as author high-definition discs. The software, which is available today at www.roxio.com for $99.99, has several key new features. First, users can now upload photos and videos to Roxio Online, a new gallery with an emphasis on slide shows and storytelling. Membership to the site is free, but there’s also a premium version with added sharing and editing features.
Olympus debuted three cameras today, and they couldn’t be more different from one another. The lineup includes the SP-565 UZ, a superzoom with a 20X lens; the Stylus 1050 SW, a ruggedized point-and-shoot; and the Stylus 1040, Olympus’s slimmest camera to date. To some extent, they seem to be refreshes: we put the 18X SP-560 UZ to the test in a superzoom test drive we did last year, and the 1050 SW looks similar to the 1030 SW, which we reviewed, although it boasts some important differences- namely, a 3D accelerometer. As for the 1040, it’s about the style more than the specs (although those aren’t bad, either). All of them will be available in October, and, like all Olympus cameras, they take xD cards.
Although we’ve already documented just how poor the iPhone 3G’s data performance is (at least at the moment), we wanted to see how the device stacks up against another AT&T 3G smart phone. So we grabbed a Samsung BlackJack II, an iPhone 3G, and took them with us on a 1.5 hour train ride from New York’s Penn Station to Long Beach, Long Island The results surprised us.
The guys at Engadget spotted the IdeaPad S10 listed on Lenovo’s site with higher end graphics. We figured we would clear up any confusion there had been about the Lenovo S10 sporting Intel X4500 integrated graphics, even though Lenovo has already changed the misprint on its site.
I checked out the device manager on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 and it turns out, as expected, that the netbook has the usual Intel GMA 945 chipset. See the screenshot below.
