Once Motorola kicked off the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) party with its Xoom tablet, you knew it would only be a matter of time before others followed suit. Buckle up and brace yourself, because the Honeycomb ride continues with the just announced Acer Iconia Tab A500, Acer's first 10.1-inch tablet running Honeycomb and the introductory model in the company's new Iconia family of slates for North America. read more

It seems as if there's been a lot of shifting around in the upper management of some big technology companies. Of course much of that is probably due to the massive departure of all of AMD's top management, making other smaller departures seem more like part of the trend. However, it can't be denied that there have been more executives leaving now than there normally are. Now, its Intel's turn to lose a top exec. The President of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, has announced he is leaving "to pursue other interests." Other than that vague description, no reason was given for the sudden departure. ...read more

KiwiPC is not a very big PC manufacturer, and you likely haven't heard of them. They do, however, have some big ideas, as the purpose for their existence is to build very simple, affordable PCs that is easy for the less than tech literate to use. As such, they have released a basic Linux-powered nettop that appears to be based off of Ubuntu. KiwiPC claims they are using a simple open-source, customized distro that senior citizens should have no trouble using to access their favorite sites and games. ...read more

Windows Phone 7, while novel, was originally missing some of the most basic features that its competitors had. However, Microsoft was intent on fixing the feature gap that Windows Phone 7 shipped with, which should make the platform more compelling than ever. However, an early preperator update last month backfired, bricking some Windows Phone 7 devices. However, Microsoft seems to be back on track, as not only did they release a fixed initial update, they are now beginning to push a new update that adds, among other things, copy-paste. ...read more

Recently, AMD has been in quite a bit of turmoil. While their graphics division leads that market and has been highly successful for the last couple of years now, their CPU division still lags far behind the competition, their best CPUs being forced down into the bargain bin by Intel's new Sandy Bridge CPUs. Additionally, while a strong force in the mobile GPU market, their mobile CPUs are arguably worse off than their desktop CPUs, and until recently, ULV offerings were non-existent. Through this, the majority of AMD's leadership was ousted, including CEO Dirk Meyer. There were even rumors of the company being up for sale. However, AMD seems to be working towards having a fully-functional leadership again shortly, starting with the hiring experienced executive Mike Wolfe from Freescale Technologies as their Chief Information Officer. ...read more

Western Digital has been on a high-activity streak lately. Earlier this month WD acquired Hitachi GST, a huge change in the market structure that is sure to put competitor Seagate on its heels. In addition, they have continued to replace their older Caviar Blacks, as their last gen Cavs had become very long in the tooth indeed. Now, WD has just released an enourmous 4-bay high-performance RAID 0, 1, or 5 external HDD enclosure. What is the maximum storage size for this enclosure? ...read more

Android and iOS generally represent two different ways of thnking when it comes to mobile experience. Whilst iOS tries to be more user-friendly, striving to work in a simple and intuitive way out-of-the-box, Android offers greater customization, an open software ecosystem, and other features catering more to power users. However, if they're similar in one way, it would have to be the two browsers under-the-hood. Both browsers use WebKit, and both are similarly optimized and running on a Unix-based OS. So to find out which one performed better, research firm Blaze Software conducted a study. The results shocked even Blaze. ...read more

Nvidia has just announced that, after a little bit more than two years in the position, Nvidia's Chief Financial Officer, David White, has resigned for "personal reasons." Nvidia is not elaborating more than that broad explanation as to why their CFO has called it quits. After coming in for a retiring Martin Burke, White began during some of Nvidia's best financial times, but also weathered through Nvidia losing the market lead to AMD. While Nvidia searches for a new CFO, corporate controller and vice president of tax Karen Burns will serve as interim CFO. ...read more