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I always knew that the Chinese always did it big in the technology field. This fact cannot be stretched enough as my fellow Chinese students at university dwarfed our second year electronic projects with walking robots and self manoeuvring vehicles as we were busy displaying stupid messages on 16×2 LCD screen –kids stuff, innit? Anyway thats besides the point.

How about this for triumph, just two Chinese ISPs serve 20% of world broadband users, yes thats right. The Telegeography updated its list of the worlds ISPs database and clearly shows how the Chinese have dwarfed about any other telecom company. China telecom is the largest ISP in the world, it has 55million subscribers. That’s right, it could serve the whole of Africa’s internet needs with surplus! It could connect every house hold in the UK and their systems would just be on less than 50% performance. The other big dog is China Unicom, with just 40 million. [ READ MORE ]

Dell has made its entry into the tablet market official today and we can now expect to see the 3G enabled smartphone and tablet in the UK as early as June and later this summer in the US.

Dell formally announced the device today on their official company blog. Boasting a 5 inch touch screen, the Streak will be almost half the size of Apple’s 9.7 inch iPad.

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It’s October 2009 which means something very special for Linux fans(me included): a 9.10 release of Ubuntu. Today we see the launch of “Karmic Koala” featuring a faster graphical boot sequence (no more scary text scrolls), a revamped audio framework that improves sound control across multiple applications, and a new Software Center that visually simplifies the Add/Remove Applications tool. These are just a few of the user-centric improvements meant to have a “transformative effect” on the OS experience and help bring “the world of open source closer to the user.” It’s available in desktop, server, and netbook editions now so get to it, before you know it you’ll be updating to Lucid Lynx.

Google earlier this month announced its new plans to release a new Operating System that is sure to bitch slap the naughty and heavily bugged Microsoft windows. Nine months after the realease of the all so popular google chrome browser, the search engine mogul has decided to embark on a project that it hopes will catch us all in a wave just like (almost) all its products on the market. This time, targeting its fan club base – internet users and their sauve netbooks.  [ READ MORE ]

Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them. The first time i heard about this i was excited to see intel trying to get their hands down and dirty with software.

On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an [ READ MORE ]

Hey old man, with your “sensible shoes” and your “401(K)” and your “Mr. Acker Bilk,” we don’t need your boring old Logitech mouse. Your scene is so yesterday, man! We just got an eyeful of the new V220 notebook mice and we gotta say — these bad boys are outtasight! They feature the same RF-based USB wireless dongle action of its boring gray brethren, but now the three-button peripheral comes in several psychedelic hues, including blue, pink, purple and red. If that weren’t enough, three new [ READ MORE ]