Lenovo has taken a page straight from Apple’s playbook. The parody of the Macbook Air commercial promoting the ThinkPad X300 ultramobile PC has an effect similar to Apple’s series of ads with John Hodgman and Justin Long that put down Windows.
Check out our reviews of the pricey X300 and the sleek Macbook Air.
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•Unlimited U.S. and Canada: Unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada. ($2.95 per month)
•Unlimited Mexico: Unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada, and to landlines in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey; up to 80 percent off normal SkypeOut rates to landlines in the rest of [...]
It starts on September 23 at 8:00 in the morning, Eastern time. Show up early, and you’ll get a free copy of the 10th-anniversary edition of Sorcerer’s Stone. Oh, Harry–still a marketing wizard.
It’s a dark time to be a Harry Potter fan. The book series has drawn to a close, the next big-screen installment of [...]
In any event, let us know if you have any problems installing the new update. It’s hard to believe, but it’s getting close to a year since Leopard was first released.
Apple has released the latest version of
Leopard, with bug fixes and security updates accompanying the fifth update to the operating system.
The company sent [...]
I’ll admit, I went into this analysis thinking that the data would show that Yahoo was worth more together–I thought that the sum of the whole would be greater than the parts. However after looking more closely at the data, I’m not sure that is necessarily true.
Hopkins took Yahoo’s top 20 U.S. Internet properties [...]
Our request for a catfight between Stewart and IAC czar Barry Diller went unanswered.
The chief executive of New York-based Pingg, Lorien Gabel, spoke to CNET News a few months ago to make the case for his company as a more refined alternative to the clip art-friendly Evite, saying he hoped Pingg would be appropriate for [...]
Note: If you’ve used YouTube to find a song you’d been long searching for, please leave a comment with the name of the song and a link to it.
To Chris Taylor, a San Francisco journalist, the meeting of the Palm V and Napster, circa 2000, was a “perfect storm” for being able to easily write [...]
Instead of focusing on specific applications that may be hogging traffic, Comcast plans to determine “in nearly real time” whether a heavy user is causing congestion, Bowling said.
Comcast, the largest cable provider in the U.S., has been under fire for months after it was discovered the company had been slowing down peer-to-peer traffic on [...]
Chrome shows the locations of search terms in the scroll bar.
The most serious issue I ran into was incompatibility with Windows Live Hotmail (seen above), which is a showstopper if you are a Hotmail user. It seems like this is an easily correctable issue and probably not the fault of Google. Chrome also suffers from [...]
When the government and 20 states filed their antitrust lawsuit, they charged Microsoft with exerting a ”choke hold” on rivals while denying consumer choice.
The proximity of those two dates raises a delicious “what if.” Knowing how the subsequent decade turned out, do you think the Justice Department would still have gone after Microsoft [...]
