Michelle Maisto

After some teasing and waiting, the Dell Adamo was made available yesterday, touted by Dell as the “world’s thinnest laptop.”The Adamo-milled from a single piece of aluminum and featuring a tempered glass, high-definition display-is 0.65 inches thin and weighs 4 pounds.Dell made a point of acknowledging the precision craftsmanship that went into creating the Adamo […]

Millions of U.S. consumers have already cut back on cell phone spending, and millions more are expected to join them as the economy forces users to be more cautious with their spending dollars.These are the findings of Opinion Research Corp., which surveyed 2,005 Americans for the New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.The […]

Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola and other wireless infrastructure vendors should brace themselves for a difficult year, says ABI Research. A new report is predicting a 6 percent reduction in expenditures for 2009.The cause for this is twofold, according to ABI.The first part is that 2G and 3G coverage is approaching maturity in the industrialized world. […]

The Dell Adamo: A Closer Look at the ‘World’s Thinnest Laptop’ No Title Aesthetics is the name of the game with the Adamo by Dell brand. Before Adamo’s debut, Dell aroused much anticipation with a hyper-stylized ad campaign shot by British-based photographer Nadav Kander. No Title Adamo shows off its profile. At 0.65 inches thick, […]

The Adamo by Dell has arrived. In what Dell has hyped as the world’s thinnest laptop, the Adamo kicks off a new “Adamo by Dell” brand, intended for style-minded people and to disrupt “perceptions of what personal computing is today,” the company said in a statement.Unsaid was that it seeks to unseat the Apple MacBook […]

General Dynamics Itronix-which delights, understandably, in sharing images of its devices plunged into snowbanks, baking under the desert sun and being borne down on by truck tires-has released the newest addition to its rugged line, the GD8000 notebook. With the release of the GD8000 rugged laptop, GDI joins Dell, Lenovo and Panasonic in updating their […]

GDI’s GD8000 Laptop Offers Tough Competition for Dell, Panasonic Photos Courtesy of GDI No Title The General Dynamics Itronix GD8000, available March 16, is the long-coming update to its GoBook XR-1. General Dynamics purchased Itronix in the fall of 2005, and the GD8000 name is a move toward emphasizing the General Dynamics brand. No Title […]

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic-Nokia’s hopeful competitor to the Apple iPhone-is once again ready to rock.The music phone was pulled from shelves on March 2, after complaints that some customers couldn’t connect to AT&T’s 3G network. The Nokia Blog is reporting that the 5800 is back with updated firmware v20.A spokeswoman for Nokia said the issue […]

Advanced Micro Devices is fighting back against allegations by Intel. Intel accused AMD of breaching the terms of a 2001 cross-licensing agreement when AMD created GlobalFoundries – the $4.3 billion spinoff of its manufacturing arm, announced on March 4 with tech investment partner ATIC. Intel says GlobalFoundries is not a subsidiary under the terms of […]

Sprint has announced that the LG Rumor 2 smartphone will be available through the Sprint network starting March 15, first in Titanium Black. A Vibrant Blue model follows on March 29.Sprint is positioning the LG Rumor 2 smartphone as a handset device for those users on a budget. When it goes on sale March 15, […]