Monday, March 10, 2014

Buy a Chromebook, get 60 days of Google Play Music All Access

Google’s offering two months of free, on-demand music to customers who pick up select Chromebooks. From now through September 30th, 2014 if you pick up most Chromebook models, you get 60 days to try out Google Play Music All Access, Google’s online music streaming service. All Access subscriptions normally run about $10 per month and […]

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Zotac launches ZBOX E-Series gaming mini-PCs with Intel IRIS Pro graphics

Zotac is adding two new gaming machines to its line of mini-desktop computers. The new Zotac ZBOX EI730 and EI750 made their first appearances at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but they’re getting an official coming out party two months later at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Each computer is a small desktop PC that’s […]

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GamingCast brings classic games to Chromecast

Google’s Chromecast may be designed to bring online video and audio to your TV. But that doesn’t mean that’s all it can do. Want to use a Chromecast to play games on your TV? There are apps for that. GamingCast is an Android app that lets you play a handful of classic games on your TV while […]

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Deals of the Day (3-10-2014)

Lenovo’s IdeaPad U430P is a 14 inch ultrabook that weighs less than 4 pounds, measures less than 0.8 inches, gets over 6 hours of battery life, and which sells for $549 and up at the moment. The notebook doesn’t have the highest resolution display, but it’s available with a choice of Intel Core i3 or […]

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Neil Young's PonoPlayer media device launching soon for $399

The rise of the MP3 in the 90s may have brought digital music into the internet age, and the launch of the iPod line of media players made it cool to carry around thousands of songs in your pocket (I know it was hardly the first portable MP3 player, but it was certainly the most […]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite gets childish with kids edition

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 Lite is a 7 inch tablet which is a tiny bit cheaper and less powerful than the original Tab 3. While I can’t think of a lot of reasons to buy one rather than a more powerful tablet that costs just a little more money, Samsung may have come up with […]

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Gartner: Nearly 200 million tablets sold in 2013, mostly Android

Research firm Gartner reports that more than 195 million tablets were sold in 2013, and for the first time since the introduction of Apple’s first iPad, most of the tablets sold were running Google Android software. According to Gartner, Android grabbed about 62 percent of the market for a total of nearly 121 million tablets. […]

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Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support

Allwinner manufactures ARM-based chips used in tablets, TV boxes, and other low-power devices. While most of those products ship with Google Android software, developers have been porting Ubuntu and other Linux-based operating systems to run on devices with Allwinner chips for years, and the chip maker has been providing some source code and documentation to […]

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Hands-on with the Samsung Chromebook 2 Series

Ready for another round of new Chromebooks? Samsung is launching two new models as its Chromebook 2 series. There’s an updated 11.6-inch version and now a shiny new 13.3-inch version. Both cost less than $400 and both have consumer-ready looks even though Samsung thinks they’re more likely to be used by students than by the […]

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Samsung launches Chromebook 2 series with 11 and 13 inch displays

Samsung’s latest Chrome OS laptops are coming in April and they’ll be available in two sizes. For $320, you’ll be able to pick up a Samsung Chromebook 2 with an 11.6 inch display. A $400 model with a 13.3 inch display also launches in April. Both models feature octa-core processors and 4GB of RAM, offering […]

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