Online electronics retailers produce some odd, but often very useful bits equipment for gadget enthusiasts. These range from a wristwatch to remotely control your TV, DVD and PVR to external open air hot-swap hard drive docking stations. The latter are for real techies and accept every memory card known to man, with all the possible [...]

Dell Computers CEO Michael Dell was on hand to show off a raft of new products to try and recapture market share lost to Acer and HP last year. As expected the company concentrated on notebooks.Introducing Intel Core i3 and i5 processor based models throughout the Inspiron line with “immediate availability” and sporting 14, 15 [...]

THE RUMOUR MILL claims that AMD is bringing forward the launch of its six-core desktop CPUs.Details are fairly light. One report of the rumour is at Fudzilla and therefore is likely to originate from suppliers rather than direct.If the rumour is correct, and that seems to us to be likely, it is only a slight [...]

KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung is taking the latest models in its netbook range to Las Vegas.The Samsung N210, N220, N150 and NB30 are designed to evoke personal freedom and boast long battery life, anti-glare screens and the quick-boot Phoenix Hyperspace operating system tool. Because it is not enough merely to be technically competent these days, [...]