Category: Featured

Toshiba’s Libretto W100 reviewed

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Today’s options for subportable computing are netbooks, whose biggest features are QWERTY keyboards on a small footprint or tablets which offer optimal portability and connectivity, Toshiba’s Libretto W100 is a hybrid of both and we take it for a spin.

Are Canadians too polite to succeed on the Internet? Reflections on Podcamp TO 2011

By Hessie Jones

I love Podcamp. The audience includes a very engaged Toronto social media community. Professionals, students, budding enthusiasts – all come together to embrace, share and learn about the new media. There is always a new insight to learn from, a new challenge to grapple with, a new technology to test.

Apple launches iPad 2, starts tablet price war

Oh, it’s on. HP, RIM, Samsung, LG, Toshiba and Motorola have all placed their tablet cards on the table these past weeks by revealing their iPad killers and Apple has countered, with the iPad 2.

Battery life for notebooks could get much better this year

By Ted Kritsonis

PC laptop manufacturers have wrestled with the issue surrounding battery life for years, not least of which because business users keep talking about how productivity can be hampered when the juice runs out. But some new models coming out this year may finally make “all-day” battery life a reality.

Will Google and Facebook start feuding over data?

By Ted Kritsonis

This week, Google updated its Nexus S Android smartphone and ultimately severed the ties between Facebook contacts and Android’s own Contacts application. The move is just the latest in the increased competition between the two tech giants over sharing data.