Category: Hardware

  • Scroll 7" tablet first impressions

    If you’re in the market for a tablet computer, you have a number of options. The obvious one, that everyone talks about, is the iPad. It was the brand that rebooted an entire market and quickly established the benchmark for…

  • The trouble with Dell’s Vostro V130

    For the past four months, I’ve been enjoying my time with a Dell Vostro V130 laptop computer as a participant in Dell’s #tradesecrets marketing campaign for the machine that Dell ran during the first quarter of this year. This Animoto…

  • Windows 7 SP1 painless update

    Earlier this week, Microsoft publicly released the first service pack for Windows 7. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that such a software release didn’t capture much attention outside the tech community, unlike the huge attention Microsoft used to…

  • Stoking the buzz about Dell’s Vostro V130

    I can think of few better ways of spending part of Sunday than playing with a new tech toy. Which is precisely what I’ve done today with a new device that Dell have let me have as part of a…

  • Adapting to a new mobile connection

    Good news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the…