HP has released a new device called the “DreamScreen,” which offers digital photo frame functionality and a slew of nifty Internet tablet capabilities. The drawback? It’s not a touchscreen.
The DreamScreen offers built-in WiFi, allowing you to access Facebook, Snapfish, Pandora, and thousands of other Internet radio stations. The twist is that everything is preset: there are no options for updating your own Facebook status, for example. You can just track your friends’ updates, photo uploads, etc. in real time. Likewise, Snapfish connectivity allows you to surf through slideshows. You can also stream your personal music, photo, or video collection to …read more

As I have recently report you are not a computer manufacturer if you haven’t joined the netbooks market. The pioneering company Asus is facing strong competition that even Nokia have their 3G Booklet, Samsung has their own version of netbooks and the other manufacturers are pushing in their own netbooks product.

Early adopters HP and Acer are not getting distracted by a barrage of models and are pushing their product line aggressively as HP has ordered around 3.3 million units from the top four Taiwan manufacturers in August 2009. The numbers is a significant 15% percent rise and the …read more

The economy has been down for quite sometime and computer heavyweights like Intel have closed offshore shops this year in various places worldwide.

It seems that the industry is seeing some positive signs and are predicting a strong finish in 2009. The demand for microprocessors have increased and Intel has changed it’s third quarter forecasft from $ 8.1 billion dollars to $ 9.2 billion dollars. Other heavyweights like HP and Dell has also increased they forecast saying that third quarter would have a spurt in computer sales. I am not sure if Windows 7 has anything to do with …read more

The latest edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics reveals that the world’s biggest PC makers — Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Lenovo — have failed to improve their low scores. All three maintain a penalty point for backtracking on their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants from their products by the end of 2009.

In 14th place, HP is lagging far behind other PC brands, having postponed its 2007 commitment to phase out PVC and BFRs from its computer products from 2009 to 2011. Dell and Lenovo are still low on the list, though they do have PVC and …read more

HP and Microsoft are giving away prizes worth more than $6,000 through 50 bloggers. The chosen bloggers review the products and post their own contests. The products include PCs, hardware and accessories, operating systems and applications, and Kung Fu Panda Blu-Ray DVDs. I’m most interested in the HP Mini 1000, the HP MediaSmart Connect and the Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student.

The program is still sketchy and the contest rules are still awaited from wherever. The bloggers are expected to coordinate, judge and ship prizes by 21st Dec, 2008, with HP and Microsoft only playing the roles of prize providers.
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