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Hands-on MacBook Pro 13-inch June 09

MacBook Pro 13-inchResolution. Possibly a little low? 1280×800 has been standard on 13” widescreen laptops for as long as I can remember. The 8” widescreen Sony Vaio P-series laptop has a resolution of 1600×768. Now this resolution is blatantly ridiculous, but with that said, the MacBook Pro has an extra…

Elonex ONE un-boxed, first look review

Elonex ONE BoxAt first use this device is extremely underwhelming, it not only feels slow and loads slowly, but is difficult to use. The manual does a reasonable job of explaining the software and basic functions, but even vital information like the removal of the screen from the keyboard is not easy to find…

UK computing students are disappearing

Shortage in skilled IT studentsUCAS Computing applications have fallen by 48.2% since 2001. Even at A-level the number of students has fallen by 48.6% between 2001-2007. Government investment between 1996 and 2001 almost doubled to meet industry needs, but since then funding has decreased by almost £100 million a year…

Amazon goes offline… it cannot be!

Amazon DownAmazon goes down, leaving a message of accusation, “we believe you violated the terms”. I have not! 2 hours down time = $3.5 million loss (roughly), mere pocket change.

PayPal coders go from sloppy to sleepy

PayPal DreamingPayPal merchants lose money, caused directly due to PayPal coding issues. To make matters worse PayPal state an indecisive/non-existent time-frame for the fix by developers. Another in a long list of PayPal coding shenanigans.

Your identity in a USB

TakeMS ScanlineLose as many USB drives as you want… when you have the piece of mind with a secure biometric USB flash drive.