Category: Hardware

  • Kicking the tyres of the Dell Latitude Z

    For the past few months, I’ve been using a new laptop computer on my travels and when working away from the desktop computer in my home office. The new laptop is a Dell Latitude Z and comes courtesy of Dell…

  • More evidence on why you need to make your website work for mobile devices

    The share of web traffic from mobile devices increased by 110 percent in North America over the past year and 148 percent globally, according to a new study by Quantcast as reported by MediaPost News. […] While still only a…

  • Navigating sat navs, settled for a Navman

    One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat…

  • The mother of all broadband?

    Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing…

  • Is your iPhone with OS 3.1 crashing too?

    Apple released an updated version 3.1 of the operating system for iPhone two weeks ago which brings some great new functionality. It also brings some not-so-great instability and bugs, it seems, certainly what I’ve experienced a couple of times since…