It looks like HP is the latest company to release a notebook running Google’s Chrome OS, as details have been leaked on a new HP Pavilion Chromebook, the device has yet to be officially announced by HP.

The HP Pavilion Chromebook will run Google’s Chrome OS and will feature a 14 inch HD display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, it will also come with a 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor.

Other specifications on the HP Chromebook include 2GB of RAM and 16GB of solid state storage, the battery will apparently give you up to 4 hours of usage, the HP Chromebook is expected to be officially announced on the 17th of February.

Source The Verge

When you purchase a new computer system or storage drive, you expect to be able to use the advertised disk space to store your files and folders. But Microsoft has made a surprising statement that reveals that their Surface Pro 128GB tablet will only offer 83GB of usable storage space.

Even thought the 83GB is far more than tablet equipped with 64GB of storage, it is also far less than the advertised 128GB of space advertise by Microsoft in it global marketing campaign. Should it not be a the Surface Pro 80GB tablet?

Microsoft did however state that their new Surface Pro will offer a free SkyDrive cloud storage account with 7GB of web-based storage to users, together with a USB 3.0 port, allowing users to add additional storage if desired w ... Read more »

If you enjoy running Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system and its applications, but miss it when you are using your Windows desktop. A new software app called WindowsAndroid might be able to help you fill the void.

The WindowsAndroid application has been created to enable you to run Google’s Android 4.0 operating system without the need for any additional hardware. Watch the video after the jump to see WindowsAndroid in action.

WindowsAndroid provides users with a stock Android user interface, and the included  Dalvik virtual machine, enables you to run Android apps, using your Windows systems hardware and graphics card for hardware acceleration.            &nbs ... Read more »

According to a recent report by IDC, China’s Huawei is now the worlds third most popular smartphone manufacturer with total shipments of 10.8 million for the final quarter of 2012.

This has apparently given Huawei a 4.9 percent share of the smartphone market, and in second place is Apple with a 21.8 percent share and shipments of47.8 million smartphones.

Samsung is still in first place with total global smartphone sales of 63.7 million, which gives them a 29 percent share of the smartphone market, Sony is in fourth place with a 4.5 percent share, and in fifth we have ZTE with a 4.3 percent share.

Huawei has recently announced a number of very interesting devices, and they are expected to announce some more at Mobile Wolrd Congress next month, which is bound to help their ... Read more »

AMD has today announced the launch of a new Gizmo board, and new development board which has been designed to wards x86-based embedded system development.

The Gizmo development board is a low-cost, low-power multipurpose compact development board, measuring just 4 x 4 inches in size but boasts a 52.8 GFLOP capacity.

The new Gizmo board is now available from Gizmosphere and has been created to enable you to  evaluate, experiment and design, and is equipped with a AMD G-T40E processor (dual core, 1GHz) with Radeon HD 6250 graphics, and 1GB of DDR3 SDRAM. Kamal Khouri, director of Embedded Products, AMD explains:

"Gizmo is an excellent board for the ne ... Read more »

A new developer board has been launched this week in the form of the ARMBRIX Zero which is equipped with a Samsung Exynos 5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor. Which offer developers and hobbyists a mini PC that offers a little more power than the $35 Raspberry Pi mini PC.

The new ARMBRIX Zero developer board features the same chip that the Google Nexus 10 tablet and Samsung Series 3 Chromebook are equipped with, and is currenrly one of the most powerful ARM CPUs available.

The ARMBRIX Zero mini PC is capable of running Linux based operating systems as well as Google’s Android OS, it also comes equipped with 2 x USB 2.0 host, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x SATA, 1 x USB 2.0 device, and 1 x Ethernet RJ45 connection, and me ... Read more »

Belkin has announced that it has struck a deal with Cisco to purchase the company’s Linksys home router business, which will give the company a 30 percent share of the home router and small business networking market in the US.

We’re very excited about this announcement,” said Chet Pipkin, CEO of Belkin. "Our two organizations share many core beliefs – we have similar beginnings and share a passion for meeting the real needs of our customers through the strengths of an entrepreneurial culture. Belkin’s ultimate goal is to be the global leader in the connected home and wireless networking space and this acquisition is an important step to realizing that vision.”

There are no details as yet on how much Belkin have paid Cisco for Linksys, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guy ... Read more »

If you are one of the thousands that pledged on the Kickstarter website for Pebble’s new smartwatch, but haven’t yet received your watch in the post.

A very quick Pebble unboxing video created by the Engadget might whet your appetite a little more while you wait for yours to arrive.

Its has been nine months since the Pebble successfully funded in project on Kickstarter and after a few delays they announced at CES 2013 that they would start shipping the new smartwatch on january 23rd 2013. Don’t expect to much to arrive n the box though as its been kept to a minimum, check it out in the video below.

Yesterday their new Pebble iPhone App launched in Apple’s iTunes App store ready to download. ... Read more »

If you are an avid golfer and are looking to improve your club selection a little more using the latest technology, you might be interested in a new wrist deveice unveiled by Garmin today, in the form of the Garmin Approach S2.

The Garmin Approach S2 watch has been packed with the data on 30,000 golf courses worldwide out of the box, and includes extensive measurement features and a digital scorecard.

The Approach S2 has been designed to measure individual shot distances and calculate precise yardage to the front, back and middle of the green as you play in real time. Other features of the Garmin Approach S2 include a odometer to record how far you have walked together with a lifetimes worth of course updates without ... Read more »

A new project has launched over on the Indiegogo website this week, which has been designed to allow you to transform your Arduino projects into permanent devices. Permaduino has been created to provide and easy way to go from Arduino project to custom personal gadget, without having to worry about power. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Permaduino project and see it in action. “I’ve been working with Arduino projects for the last three years and while I love the platform, I think it lacks an easy way to turn prototypes into permanent items.We started the campaign because we need enough money for the first production run of Permaduino. If we don’t do a big enough production run Permaduino would be way too expensive. All the design is done, we just need some testing of the final boards before going ... Read more »