The ‘next big thing’ in notebook computers - and later, desktops - are solid state hard drives.
“Solid state” means no moving parts. Current hard drives have moving parts: there is one or more platters that spin, with an arm that rides above the platter(s) and reads off the drive. Because they are mechanical, they run [...]

Lucas Mearian of ComputerWorld doesn’t think so. Here is an excellent article entitled
“Blu-ray or HD DVD? Neither, thanks”
He makes some very interesting, and I think salient, points in this piece. His main point is basically that it doesn’t make any difference which one wins; they both will be irrelevant soon enough anyway. Indeed, his position [...]

Here is a company from Michigan that really has something neat. They are introducing this device this week at the CES (Consumer Electronics show - hafta go to that one of these days) out in Las Vegas.
This is a full-blown computer for your car - keyboard and everything. It fits where a traditional radio/NAV device [...]