Author Archive for Alex Ion

Richard Schaeffer is the NSA official who said before the Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security that the National Security Agency has been working closely with Microsoft to enhance Windows 7’s security guide, igniting fear that the software giant has deliberately coded a backdoor into the newly announced operating …

If you wanted to get your hands on a Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader but didn’t order one yet and decided to get a better price during the holiday season, we have some bad news. Apparently the pre-orders for the Nook have exceeded all expectations (who would’ve thought) and …

Just when we thought the OpenOffice Mouse debacle and the Sony Vaio X “dead rat” are going to be the most popular models this month, we laid our eyes a new mouse introduced by the folks from Smartfish Technologies. The Smartfish Ergomotion mouse functions like any other run-of-the-mill wireless laser …

If the BlackBerry Pearl lineup has been lacking media attention as of late because RIM has been more interested in their QWERTY mobiles, apparently the Canadian manufacturer has been working behind the scenes and plan to revive it with the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100.

Verizon Wireless are doing everything humanly possible to rake in the best smartphone carrier title for this year. Although officially introduced in North America last month by Bell, it looks like Big Red is also interested in carrying their own version of the new Samsung Omnia II, with the handset …

The AT&T – Verizon war keeps on going no matter what. After today’s truth about the 3G ads, we caught wind that there’s a race for netbooks, too. If last month we found out that Big Red has announced availability for the new HP Mini 110 netbook, today AT&T has …

Mercedes Benz owners that dream of an iPhone/BlackBerry application to control some of the stuff that have cost them dearly, should be delighted to hear that the German car maker has partnered with Hughes Telematics and have announced a new telematics system dubbed mbrace, that brings “unprecedented connectivity and customization …

Those who have been lucky enough to escape being killed by the wife after spending a huge load of money on photo gear (oh I bet you know who you are), should know that they can take their chances once again as the Germans from Hasselblad have officially announced that …

If up until now the much anticipated Android-powered Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 has done a great job in teasing us with its amazing specs and the far away February 2010 release date, today we finally found out what the handset is expected to retail for, and we can confirm that …

When it comes to immortalizing a yet to be released mobile phone, spy photographers have their own way of taking a picture. There’s no flash, no autofocus, extremely low light and seems like their hands are trembling, as most of the times we get to look at blurry images that …

If earlier reports have pointed out that the new ThinkPad X100e is actually Lenovo’s first Thinkpad netbook, today we caught wind that the computer manufacturer is not going to introduce only one, but two models. Guilty for the whole thing is the new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge ultraportable, a rather …