Archive : Tech

Model: AlienWare M17xR3 Manufacturer: Dell/Alienware Price: Starting at £1799 Availability: Currently unavailable* In concept, a laptop is the best thing since sliced bread. However, to get one to meet your every demand quite often you’ll have to pay the earth for one, and even then it’ll let you down somehow, usually when it comes to the battery life or overall power. The Alienware M17xR3 [...]

Model: Inspiron One 2310 Desktop Manufacturer: Dell Price: £550-700 Availability: Out Now The personal computer market is, to put it kindly, a competitive one. With tablets garnering a lot of praise and having the ability to wirelessly connect to printers, browse the internet and play all manner of games, it’s understandable that people might be drawn by the swagger of these devices. Being able [...]

Popular on-demand HD content streaming service VUDU has been available on Boxee desktop software since December. Today Boxee announced an updated firmware which brings VUDU to the Boxee Box. The VUDU app will give users access to the largest library of HD content in full HD with 5.1 surround sound.  In addition to a custom VUDU application, VUDU movies will be integrated into Boxee’s [...]

At Sporkings.com, we pride ourselves in providing our readers with run-downs of the best accessories available for your beloved gadgets. As an update to our iPad accessories article at the iPad launch last year, we thought it was about time to not only give you an update, but to also provide the netbook fans out there something to carry their devices around with style. We’ve done some shopping [...]

Tickets costs $’000s for this event.. so to watch it in the comfort of where ever you are watching has got to be a good thing. Watch live streaming video from web20tv at livestream.com

According to a study from  Nielsen , Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a statistical dead heat for second place among recent acquirers. Blackberry still holds the dominant share with 31 percent of the market Among all smartphone owners, though its lead over Apple is declining. Twenty-eight [...]

Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo announced that Twitter would be retiring its Early Bird advertising product, which partnered with retailers and e-commerce companies to offer discounted deals to Twitter users. “We had tremendous early success with it,” Costolo said, citing deals with Virgin America and Disney. “But it needs to be reworked or rethought.” Most of the deals offered were [...]

If you’re bored and want to watch something fascinating, check out the TechCruch Disrupt event. TechCrunch incidentally just merged (acquired) by AOL.

If you are a regular user of Facebook Credit, soon you may not have to spend as much as you are normally do, thanks to e-tailers(online retailers) , who could offer the credits as shopping incentives. Ifeelgoods, an e-commerce promotions provider for online retailers, has integrated Facebook Credits into the online shopping experience, by which its e-tailer  clients can use the credits to incentivize [...]

Intel has updated its processor pricing list for mobile i5, i7 and Celeron processors.  Intel had released Core 1.33GHz i5-560UM (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads, 32-nanometer), priced at US $250,  “UM” indicates ultralow power, and these chips typically go in ultrathin laptops and even tablets. The 2.66Hz i5-580M (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads) is priced at US $266, [...]