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Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo While the smartbook may resemble a common-or-garden netbook, it sports a battery life of more than eight hours and always-on connectivity - via 3G, wi-fi and other radios - in the manner of a smartphone. [20 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Nightmares will likely include ropey mobile and wi-fi signals, laptops with too-short battery lives and labyrinthine routes to the corporate VPN - if the company even has one. Richard Leyland weighs up the pros and cons. [17 Nov 2009]
Achieving Remarkable Returns: Consider an Investment in Treasury Management
White Paper And no, it isn't the installation of a whole new battery of processes, personnel or technology. What's the return on treasury? A large alternative investment manager obtained a partial answer while examining its cash... [13 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Samsung X120
Photo Battery life is on the short side Its battery life is the only real disappointment, but even that's not too bad Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest... [13 Nov 2009]
RFID Tag Security
White Paper Its unique features include giving each physical object a globally unique digital identity read from a distance without requiring line-of-sight capability, and often without using a battery. RFID is a technology that... [12 Nov 2009]
Wireless Digital Audio Quality for Portable Audio Applications
White Paper The success of wireless technology in the portable audio market depends on audio quality, battery life, form factor and cost. This paper discusses the impact of wireless audio technology on audio quality, with emphasis... [12 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment So far, the netbook was doing a fair job, but where it really comes into its own - where it shines above the rest and makes me wonder why everyone doesn't run straight out and buy one of these machines - is battery life. [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: New Apple MacBook learns lessons from the Pro
Photo The unibody construction means the battery is no longer removable - also like the current Pro line-up. Apple updated its MacBook line-up this week. Here's a closer look at the revamped unibody polycarbonate MacBook. [22 Oct 2009]
Photos: New BlackBerry Bold-ly goes for European design
Photo The company claims the battery offers six hours of GSM talk time, and 19 days of standby time. The battery will probably outlast you", Lazaridis claimed. According to Lazaridis, the things that really... [21 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Microsoft has also been working with computer makers to improve system performance in general, including more rapid recovery from problems if they occur, and power-saving features to help extend battery life. [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Second coming for touchscreen BlackBerry
Photo The device runs on the BlackBerry 5.0 operating system and RIM claims the battery will provide between five and six hours of talk time. RIM today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, the company's... [15 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet Doesn't all that mobile connectivity drain the Kindle's battery? That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel - that can store hundreds or thousands of... [07 Oct 2009]
Photos: The phones of the future on display
Photo This enables one phone to share its battery's charge with another, or for several to be joined together to form one large television screen. The winner of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design Award 2009 was announced this... [06 Oct 2009]
Self-Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices
White Paper The most challenging part lies in a dilemma: while it should be computationally infeasible for adversaries to decrypt the data, the cryptographic operation should be efficient for legitimate users and minimize battery... [05 Oct 2009]
Security, Fault-Tolerance and Their Verification for Ambient Systems
White Paper In contrast to the computers in a normal distributed system, ambient devices are generally small (meaning they have little computing power or memory space), often battery operated and interconnected much more dynamically. [05 Oct 2009]
