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MacBook Air Facing Performance Related Doldrums Against Similarly Priced Windows Devices

MacBook Air Facing Performance Related Doldrums Against Similarly Priced Windows Devices

As compared to the similarly priced Windows based notebooks and laptops, the MacBook Airs don’t have the same level of performance. This statement was proven through different tests and analysis reports on the subject of handheld computers’ performance. According to PC World, there were two MacBook Airs, which were test against Windows 7 based machines. The test results were phenomenal because [...]
HP Making Moves to Improve and Support Affiliate Businesses

HP Making Moves to Improve and Support Affiliate Businesses

HP wants to resolve client problems quickly, proactively and without any kind of disturbances. The company has been planning to do so, through the launch of a support program that will help them hone the growth of affiliate business support providers. HP’s new platform for support groups is expected to be ready within the next 12 – 18 months. That’s a lot of time; primarily it means that businesses [...]
Microsoft Kinect Against Playstation Move: Holiday Season Crown Rush

Microsoft Kinect Against Playstation Move: Holiday Season Crown Rush

Okay ladies and gentlemen, nerds and geeks, gamers and well… non-gamers, just when we were thinking that this holiday season would be the showdown between Apple iPad and Microsoft Kinect, something unexpected happened. Sony made an announcement that pretty much bellowed out high sales volume for the Sony Move controller and Move based games. Did you know that the PlayStation 3 Motion controller has [...]
Unapproved Windows Phone 7 Applications Gaining More Popularity than the Real Ones

Unapproved Windows Phone 7 Applications Gaining More Popularity than the Real Ones

Seeing to the lame progress on app release issue, several developers created tool to unlock user access to “side” applications that haven’t been approved by Microsoft yet. Hmm, that’s a nice move. Someone hacked the Kinect and Microsoft dropped the charges, by saying that the bold step was impressive and appeared innovative. As far as the WP7 OS app access is concerned, there’s “ChevronWP7” [...]
Why Is Windows Struggling to Beat the Android… Still?

Why Is Windows Struggling to Beat the Android… Still?

Why do you think that Android has been outselling Windows Phone 7 and pervious OSs for such a long time? Let alone, Windows is having a hard time catching its breath against other market contenders as well. The OS’s performance is off to a declining slope, which makes RIM’s Blackberry OS looks far better. In terms of sales from Nov. 11 to Nov. 24, Windows Phone 7 only accounted for a meager 1.87% [...]
Gran Turismo: A Brief Look In The History of Car Racing

Gran Turismo: A Brief Look In The History of Car Racing

Just a few days ago, on November 24th – 2010, Sony’s premier racing game: Gran Turismo 5 was released. It was an immense success, but what most of the people don’t know is the degree of time and effort it took for Sony and Polyphony Digital to reach this point. Let’s take a look at Gran Turismo’s history. It was 1998, when the racing games were hitting the shelves for the first time. Yeah, [...]
Tons of Reasons to Go for Xbox 360: Kinect Combo This Holiday Season

Tons of Reasons to Go for Xbox 360: Kinect Combo This Holiday Season

Log on to any website with latest gadgets that are high in demand, you’re bound to find out Xbox 360 over there. And it gets even better, do you know why? Because just like its competitors, Microsoft released Kinect, the motion based system which is fun for the whole family. And what better way to play games and have quality fun, then to do it all in the Holiday Season. Take a look at some of the [...]
Free Office Work Related Google App Addons

Free Office Work Related Google App Addons

Google has launched a slew of applications since last March. We’re specifically talking about office and documentation work related apps that are normally used by companies to straighten out their daily business activities. Some of these apps work like an addon, directly or indirectly dependent on the native application to dish out email contacts database, spreadsheets, and Google domains account [...]
Google Cloud Connect Poses Problems for Microsoft Office

Google Cloud Connect Poses Problems for Microsoft Office

Google recently teamed up with Microsoft to test an intriguing plugin for the Office Suite. Known as the Google Cloud Connect, this simple concept revolves around the idea of saving your files to your online Google Docs space, instead of saving them in the local hard drive. It was to ensure free disc space and also, minimal possibilities of getting the files damaged through viruses and local hard disk [...]
The Ups and Downs of the iOS 4.2

The Ups and Downs of the iOS 4.2

I literally stated down the iOS 4.2 hands on review, in the form of “Ups” and “Downs”. Didn’t get it? Just read on and you’ll know what I’m talking about: •    Down – The Actual iPad Update Process; I don’t know about Mac users, but initiating an update of the iOS based devices through the iTunes is kind of hectic. I’m talking about the update process on PCs. At times, the [...]
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