Archive for April, 2010 - Page 14

The Indonesian government is planning to develop a geothermal power network sourced by the archipelago’s many volcanoes.  This endless source of heat would provide up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity by 2014, enough to power 4,000,000 Indonesian homes.

Thanks to a recently posted press release, we have learned that Motorola is breaking up with Google, at least in part. Of course, lets just hope that the only inaccurate portion of the news is the fact that the press release is dated for tomorrow. Oops for posting that early, [...]

Only last week we reported on rumours circulating that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 was set to gain its confirmed Android 2.1 update in September and that, according to said rumours, this may include bringing mulittouch support to the Xperia X10 – despite previous official word that the X10 cannot [...]

Intel has officially unveiled the CTL 2go Convertible Classmate PC NL2 netbook and while it was designed for children and the education market there may be some grown up kids eying the device as well. To begin with, the Convertible Classmate PC is a netbook at heart sharing many of [...]

Sort of a sentimental story for those of us who used computers before flash drives, but Sony Japan says they’re going to end domestic (Japan) sales of floppy discs in March 2011. They ended international sales of their floppy discs in all regions (except for India) last month and are [...]

In what can only be described as the latest in the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro series of rumors — we are now seeing reports of a release time frame as well as some pricing. And it should go without saying that these are anything but [...]

I already happen to think that the new 2010 MacBook Pro notebook line is way hotter than its 2009 predecessor. But is it really worth getting a powerful laptop from Apple if it overheats? Today we read a strange report according to which the Intel Core i7 17-inch MacBook Pro [...]

Despite having lots of options available when it comes time to make an ebook reader purchase, many are looking towards the apparent front runners in the market. Those of course would be the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble nook. And with that it looks like the Barnes & [...]

Panasonic has acted to offer confirmation concerning the release timeframes and pricing of its new series of VIERA VT25 Full HD 3D Plasma TVs which, aside from offering an alternative to (farmore common) LCD 3D TVs, will take in four models comprising of the VIERA TC-P50VT25, VIERA TC-P54VT25, VIERA TC-P58VT25 [...]

In addition to the BlackBerry Bold 9650, the kickoff of WES 2010 also saw the official unveiling of the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. Interestingly enough, the Pearl 3G will be available in the form of a 9100 and 9105 each of which features a different style keyboard.