Boxee hands out free Boxee TVs to its most eager cloud DVR fans
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 28th 2012 11:55AM If you like the idea of the Boxee TV, you’ll be glad to hear that Boxee is handing units out like so much Halloween candy… as long as you live in the right areas, that is. Those who’ve signed up for product notifications and live in the cloud DVR coverage areas of Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, DC can get a free Boxee...
IBM Labs develops ‘initial step’ towards commercial fabrication of carbon nanotubes
By James Trew posted Oct 28th 2012 2:00PM Commercialization of carbon nanotubes is one of the holy grails of next-gen computing, and IBM thinks it’s made crucial steps toward making this a reality. This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard such a claim, of course, but IBM’s considerable resources will make this particularly interesting. The specific problem it’s been tackling is placing enough...
Apple Introduces iPad mini
Everything you love about iPad — the beautiful screen, fast and fluid performance, FaceTime and iSight cameras, thousands of amazing apps, 10-hour battery life* — is everything you’ll love about iPad mini, too. And you can hold it in one hand. Learn more See the original post here: Apple Introduces iPad minireference
For a beginner-friendly distro, try Linux Lite 1.0.0
For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, and the other leading Linux distributions, casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as well, each with a particular purpose and target audience in mind. New ones pop up regularly, too, offering yet another fresh twist on the desktop Linux theme. Case in point: On the same day Microsoft’s...
Switched On: Tablets and tradeoffs
By Ross Rubin posted Oct 28th 2012 5:30PM This week saw the debut of two ARM-powered tablets by old rivals. One eschews traditional desktop input methods; the other embraces them. One occupies the high end of pricing in its class; the other is competitive with the market leader. One had the engineering goal of fitting in one hand; the other comes with a kickstand for being set on a desk or table. But perhaps the biggest contrast...
