Halfway To Paradise With Mobile Crossing's WayPoint 200 PDA/GPS

Published on October 5, 2005 to Smartphones

Traffic stinks in most cities, but a good GPS can help. Mobile Crossing's WayPoint 200 is a pretty good PDA and GPS navigator. However, to reach "excellent" status, the company needs to make it easier for users to integrate real-time traffic information into the GPS's routing system. Read more

Conversations with Cliff Plumer Part II: ILM's Real Yoda?

Published on October 12, 2005 to Notebooks and Laptops

Last week we presented the first part of Barry Gerber's interview with Cliff Plumer, the Chief Technology Officer of Lucasfilm and ILM. Our conversation this week continues over a wide range of topics, including challenges the company faces in constructing its computing environment. Read more

Combining Work with Play: Asus M6000N Notebook

Published on April 7, 2004 to Notebooks and Laptops

With its M6000N Series, Asus wants to prove that its new business notebook series delivers for work and play. Equipped with ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics card and a 15.1" or 15.4" TFT high-resolution display, our tests showed how and if it's possible to offer the best of both worlds. Read more

An HTPC on the cheap with GB-PVR

Published on April 25, 2006 to Home Theater

If you're a college student with not a lot to spend, getting into the HTPC game requires a little creativity, but it can be done. Benjamin Webb shows how he did it. Read more

Making Ultrasmall Desktops with Mobile PC Components

Published on September 21, 2006 to Desktop Computers

Using near state-of-the-art mobile PC components, several manufacturers have built desktop PCs as small as 6.5" x 6.5" x 2". These highly mobile PCs are ideally suited to home theater PC (HTPC) applications. We look at their strengths and weaknesses when used for this purpose. Read more