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4Home, Marvell partner for energy monitoring plug computer
If you asked Intel what this is, the company would tell you it’s an experimental power sensor ; if you asked a storage guru, they’d ID it as the PogoPlug .
Toshiba refreshes Satellite low-power laptops in the UK
If you had your eye on a CULV-toting Toshiba Satellite ultraportable, you might to wait another month before coughing up the change — Pocket-Lint says the mysterious new Toshibas from Computex are actually updates to the T110 and T130 , and both are getting a sizable upgrade. Whereas 2009′s low-end lappy settled for a Celeron chip, the Iron Man Metallic T210 (pictured above) has a dual-core 1.2GHz Pentium U5400 powering that 11.6-inch LED-backlit display, and the 13.3-inch T230 is back in black with a Core ULV i3-330UM and a 500GB hard drive.
ASUS Eee PC 1015T strolls into Computex with AMD V105… we think
So, here’s the thing — there’s no denying that the Eee PC 1015T, based on model name alone, is brand new and heretofore unknown. But what’s really under the hood? As the story goes, this here machine was spotted lurking in the rear of ASUS ‘ Computex booth, complete with a placard that informed us of its 10.1-inch glossy display (1,024 x 600), AMD V105 processor, an ATI Radeon HD 4200 series GPU, room for 4GB of DDR3 memory, 250/320/500GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, optional Bluetooth 3.0, a 6-cell battery and a few color options
Innoversal’s Pixel Qi-based tablet prototype: $530 for the display of your dreams
We already had the opportunity to sit down and tinker with a slew of Pixel Qi -based prototype devices here in Taipei, but one in particular managed to catch our eye in a rather surprising location.
Same as it ever was: you can’t tether an iPhone to the iPad
This isn’t so much news as it is a public service announcement: even in markets where iPhone tethering has launched, you’ve never been able to use it to connect to an iPad, and you won’t be able to when AT&T flips the switch on tethering with the release of OS 4. That’s clearly not AT&T’s fault, it’s Apple’s — the iPhone inexplicably supports only USB and Bluetooth for sharing its internet connection, even though jailbroken apps like MyWi prove that a WiFi connection is totally doable and countless other handsets already support WiFi routing.
Taiji sneaks a Bluetooth keyboard in and out of its tablet prototype, reminds us of our drug mule days
Just kidding, we were never drug mules. Still, we once watched a film that mentioned drug mules, and boy does this Taiji tablet prototype remind us of that formative experience
