My WII Play

If you’re a gamer, a designer or a movie lover, you’ll need a full-fledged laptop

The resulting picture and experience, however, isn’t seamless. To access this video on the Wii, you have to open the Web browser and go to the address “Playon.tv” in order to find your options. Once there, you can choose a channel (Netflix, YouTube, etc.), go through your list of queued videos, and start playing.

The Butch and Sundance of tech ride again, only this time they’ve come to San Francisco, not Bolivia.Microsoft and Intel came to town to discuss their partnership, which seemed a little weak a few years back, in the development of Windows 7.

Sony(Sony VGP-BPS2A battery) introduced a digital camera and a smartphone, and gave a brief glimpse of an ultrathin laptop, as well as a new look for its global advertising, at IFA Berlin Wednesday.

Samsung has outed a whole host of laptop goodness at IFA today, with the debut of the skinny X-Series range, and some new additions to the N-Series netbook line-up as well.The X-Series is made up of X520, X420 and X120, with 15.6-, 14- and 11.6-inch LED screens respectively.

If you’re a gamer, a designer or a movie lover, you’ll need a full-fledged laptop. Even low-end models like the $550 Gateway MD have large screens and feature fast processors and lots of memory that let you easily run multiple programs or powerful apps like Photoshop. To get fast enough graphics for Blu-ray movies or games, though, your starting price will go up.

Global Solar Energy has endorsed Tekkeon’s myPower ALL line of rechargeable laptop batteries for use with the company’s lightweight solar chargers. With the trend for users to go off-the-grid, the demand is growing for high-capacity batteries that are capable of fully utilizing power generated by solar panels. With its Sunbooster smart 3-pin adapter, Tekkeon has provided easy connection to its myPower ALL batteries for portable solar charges from companies like Global Solar.

The CEO of netbook pioneer Asustek(A42-A6 Battery ) Computer said today that he still sees no clear market for mini-laptops known as smartbooks, the reason the company isn’t moving forward in that product segment.

The company raised hopes it would soon launch an Eee PC smartbook based on chips made by Qualcomm and running Google’s Android mobile operating system when such a device was displayed at the Computex Taipei electronics show in June. But the company quickly put the project on the back burner, refusing to discuss it days later at a press event that featured Asustek’s chairman alongside executives from microprocessor maker Intel and OS giant Microsoft.

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