July 14, 2009
Lenovo’s Newest Netbook Is a Reserved Reboot
Wired
Christopher Null writes about Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10-2 netbook.
“The most noticeable upgrade is the addition of LED backlighting to the 10.1-inch, 1024 x 600-pixel LCD, which at last brings the dim screen of the original S10 up to par with the competition. Lenovo also tosses in a quick-boot operating system that’s reasonably successful, though XP boots fast enough to make it somewhat irrelevant. Lenovo has cut the price of the netbook to $350. Considering the original S10 was $470 at release last October, that’s a deep discount that’s hard to pass up.”
IT budgets: Shifting by the week?
ZD Net
Larry Dignan provides some research firms’ forecasts on global IT spending.
“Goldman Sachs expects an eight per cent decline of global IT spending followed by a two per cent gain in 2010. Other research outlets such as Forrester and Gartner have been cutting their spending projections, but remain more optimistic than Goldman Sachs.”
Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder with 1-button YouTube uploads out-Ultras the Flip
Engadget
Thomas Ricker writes that Samsung will be releasing an ultra-compact camcorder this fall, putting it in competition with the Cisco Flip UltraHD product.
“Samsung’s new HMX-U10 fixed-focus, ultra-compact camcorder takes 10 megapixel stills or 1920 x 1080 Full HD H.264 video to SDHC cards courtesy of a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor. There’s also a two-inch LCD so you can playback, edit, or upload your videos with help from Samsung’s built-in Intelli-studio software and USB cable, naturally. Unfortunately, Samsung makes no mention of image stabilization typically missing from these pocket camcorders. We do know, however, that it’ll ship in September for $200 with a footprint measuring 56 x 103 x 15.5-mm / 95g and that peculiarly angled lens first seen on Sammy’s HMX-R10 and SMX-C10 camcorders.”
