Monthly Archives: April, 2009
Battery Life
Whether you use a netbook or an ultramobile notebook (same difference!), the one of the most important requirements in my view, particularly for the very mobile worker, is that it has a significant battery life – whole day preferably. Down with 3-Cell Batteries: Netbooks Should Have 5+ Hours of Battery Life The only problem with [...]
Laptop Security
Try thinking of your notebook or mini-note not as a computer but as a pile of cash. Would you leave $800 lying around on a library table or the front seat of your car? How about $300? Chances are you wouldn’t, and that’s because we instinctively realize that’s tantamount to inviting unscrupulous types to help [...]
The luck and loneliness of the long-distance worker
Sometimes when browsing the Internet, you come across some things that are old but still quite good. This article puts across the need to engage people who telecommute or work in a geographically distributed environment, to spend some facetime with each other. In the traditional office, workers are much like the individual members in a [...]
Dedicated Skype Phone from Asus Finally Out
Asus have finally gotten around to releasing their Skype videophone that I talked about last November. “Asus has just released the first certified standalone Skype videophone which will make it easier for novice users to speak and see each other. The device, called the EEE AiGuru SV-1 Videophone, is the first non PC product of [...]