With the federal government about to get much larger, the biggest swarm of consultants, "Beltway Bandits" and the like are already starting to infiltrate the Washington, DC area, home of the US government and your favorite defrag company. They're looking for a piece of the stimulus pie and anythi...

In another installment of her ongoing efforts to mod the Acer Aspire 1, [tnkgrl] has added eSATA capabilities. During the hard drive upgrade she did, she used the spare PATA connection, leaving an SATA connection free. This time she has gone in and extended it to be accessible outside the case. To d...

There are so many good-byes associated with military life. Seems like we're always saying good-bye to someone, doesn't it? Training, Deployment, TDY and PCS moves. Good-bye, Good-bye, Good-bye and Good-bye. None of the good-byes are easy, but one of the hardest is when it's time for your...

For those who want a Windows Media Center PC for their living room or bedroom and aren’t interested in paying $3000+ for a full-blown HTPC, feast your eyes on this little gem. The MSI Wind Box DE200 PC comes equipped with a Blu-ray drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics, 2GB of DDR2 memory, 160GB...

Medion has announced the latest in its line of "value" Akoya desktop PCs. The E3300 D offers a decent enough AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 dual core processor (which apparently runs at 2.7GHz), ATI Radeon HD4350 graphics processor with HDMI output, 640GB eco-friendly hard drive, 4GB of RAM, DVD writer, eigh...

Part of Apple's Tuesday surprise, in which the firm refreshed its entire desktop computing line, was about a lack of things: how much less the products weighed than previous models, the removal of PVC, brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and arsenic, and the lower energy profile of the new models. Ev...

Many of our cherished computers and consoles from the past have not stood up well over time. It’s not the hardware as much as the color. From Commodores, Apples, to Super Nintendos, the machines have slowly drifted towards a sickly yellow and even brown. The culprit appears to be the fire reta...

With all of the cell phones, MIDs, and tablets coming out these days, it can be hard to stand out.  A company that I have never heard of, the appropriately named Always Innovating, seems to be trying to break out from the crowd.  Their new form factor is somewhat similar to the old HP TC1000 table...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), Stocks to Sell, Recession There was a time when Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) was the cream of the crop in the PC business. Its college dorm beginnings and customization model allowed the company to separate itself from a host of other competi...

Multiple companies adopt SheevaPlug(TM) development platform to showcase new network-based applications that are designed to be simple to install and easy to use Marvell announced its Plug Computing initiative to make high-performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly comput...