Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO gave his keynote at CES 2009 yesterday, and he announced that Windows 7 beta release will be available to the public on Friday, January 9. First impressions have been great so far, and already seem better than Vista. Windows 7 Public Beta is ready for download today. Washingtonpost.com have already been putting [...]

With many software downloads if you knew that you can get one download from 2.5 million then you would feel pretty safe, although in this case it’s the Microsoft Windows 7 beta download and there will only be 2.5 million slots. This download limit will likely run out fast so you will have to hurry up, [...]

Epson today announced the latest consumer scanner in Epson’s award-winning line-up – the Epson Perfection V30. Like Epson’s higher-end scanners, the Epson V30 has fast scan speeds, no warm-up time and lower power consumption thanks to Epson’s ReadyScan LED technology. This scanner provides families, scrapbookers and cost-conscious consumers with an ideal all purpose high-quality tool for [...]

There have been a number of rumors about the new VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC, as well as leaked photos, but Sony have finally unveiled the Ultra-Wide Ultra-Portable at CES 2009. This small notebook uses the 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, which is made for netbooks, but Sony is adamant that the small computer is not [...]

AMD have officially announced the launch of the Phenom II, which is their most powerful CPU yet. The new processor from AMD will be sandwiched between Intel’s Intel’s Core 2 Quad and Core i7 processors. There is to be two Phenom II chips available, the X4 920 and the X4 940 Black Edition with [...]

Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, has delivered his first keynote at CES 2009, and the big announcement was all about Windows 7. Ballmer said that Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available to testers and will be launched to the public this Friday, January 9, 2009. Ballmer did not do a bad job considering this was his [...]

LaCie has unveiled a new storage device, the 2big Quadra is a two-bay RAID solution and offers up to 3TB of storage capacity great for applications that demand high speed performance. There are four RAID modes; these include RAID 0 and RAID 1. The LaCie 2big Quadra offers a convenient hot-swap feature and has been developed [...]

It is no secret that the WinFast 9800 GTX+ has never been a great GPU, but Leadtek have been working on the graphics card to try and get more from it. Leadtek have given the GPU aggressive driver updates, thanks to the Catalyst driver team. The new card now manages to do a good job in [...]

Asustek Computer decided to show off their latest device, the Asus S121 Netbook. This latest netbook is ultra-thin and very light and features two new technologies inside. The first is the world’s largest SSD, 512GB. The second is the operating system; Asus are using Microsoft’s Windows 7 which is yet to be released. The Asus S121 [...]

The Macworld Expo 2009 saw Apple release details of a few new products and one of these included it’s new productivity suite, iWork ‘09. Now how will Apple’s latest office software stack up against Microsoft Office? PC World ask the question “Is iWork ‘09 an Office Competitor?”, and it seems the very first point that hits [...]

Chairman of Satyam Computers, Mr. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned as the Chairman after admitting “fraud” in the company. Raju admits that there had been an attempt to manipulate the accounts, which as we know failed. Mr. Ramalinga Raju also admitted that this manipulation had been going on for a few years. It seems that when the [...]

Phil Schiller had his chance to shine at Apple’s keynote at Macworld yesterday, and I have to say that it was not a good one. There were a few a few new product launches, but it was the price change to iTunes that will have the most effect on people. The new prices for song downloads [...]

Philip Schiller has been doing a great job so far at his keynote at Macworld, and the best product so far has to be the new 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro. As you would expect Apple have worked hard to try and produce something special and an 8 hour battery life is certainly that. The 17 inch [...]

We have learned of two new products from Apple at their keynote live speech, iPhoto and iMovie 09, and the third new product is GarageBand 09. This app has a number of cool features, one of which is called “Learn to play.” The cool interface will teach you how to play an instrument, great if you [...]

2009 Macworld keynote by Apple has only been going for just under an hour and already two products have been introduced. There is iPhoto and iMovie 09, and Phil Schiller is doing a great job in describing these two new products. iPhoto has a cool feature, face detection which is much the same as Facebook photo [...]

MSI has confirmed that both the Wind U115 and U120 netbooks will be on show at CES 2009. The U115 is the first netbook with hybrid storage, giving you a mix of a standard hard drive and an SSD (Solid State Dive), both of which will run side by side. The new MSI Wind U115 will [...]

We reported yesterday that Freescale was to launch their new i.MX515 processor for netbooks; this low-cost CPU will help Freescale take the fight to Intel who has had the market share for some time now. The i.MX515 will be the first CPU to take the fight to Intel’s Atom. Netbooks normally cost on average $299, but [...]

HP will be showing of their third-generation Netbook at CES 2009, the HP Mini 2140. The consumer versions of HP netbooks have become a huge hit, so now it is time for something different. HP are about to hit the business market with the HP Mini 2140, the main difference is that the netbook will [...]

Hackers have been working hard again, and have this time hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities, which include Britney Spears and President-Elect Barack Obama. This is a serious issue that Twitter needs to rectify and make sure that it does not happen again. Once the accounts had been hijacked they were used to [...]

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet wanted to put together a little test to see which OS was faster. The operating systems in question were Windows 7 beta 1, Vista and XP, but it was not your average test, it was 23 real-world scenarios to see which the quickest OS was. The version being tested were 32-bit versions [...]