By Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

With the sheer number of Network Media Players on the market today, manufacturers are increasingly looking to find a clever angle to distinguish their products from the others. In putting a Blu-Ray drive inside the BD Prime 3.0, HDi Dune’s angle is more of a convergence. A convergence of everything HD.
Read on for our review. (A Paul Moons production).

By Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Move over iPad! Sitting on our test bench is Australia’s latest Tablet PC, a beautiful 10 incher from the House of Tegatech.
You may know Tegatech as the key distributor and seller of UMPCs and ruggedised tablet PCs to list a few of their niche products. And you may know them from previous reviews we’ve done, like the MediSlate and the Ruvo Avox.
This time Tegatech has used their expertise to develop their own device. It is a 10.2″ Tablet PC with built-in 3G modem and they are calling it TEGA.
They worked with the Chinese manufacturer K.R.T. to develop an Australianised Tablet PC by adapting firmware and the touchscreen to suit our climate.
As we mentioned in our Upcoming Reviews highlight: we quickly came to the conclusion that this is a very handsome and handy device with plenty of potential uses.
So here’s a more in-depth take on this tablet and let’s see how our findings panned out over the last few weeks.

By Alice Hill
Longtime readers of this blog have noticed that Michael Santo has been doing the heavy lifting largely alone for at least two years now. Yikes! My goal was not to disappear, but I thought it was high time I popped back on and let RTN readers know what I have been up to.
 
Long story short, I have been working on a new startup company called Bizmore.com. Bizmore is a new online subsidiary of 50+ year old CEO leadership organization Vistage International. What Vistagedoes offline with small groups of members sharing advice and best practices, Bizmore does online for everyone. If you have a business question, are looking for advice or just want a sounding board, Bizmore is a free resource that ties a lot of what was scattered online in one place. We have small business experts, we have great content, and we have a pretty slick Q&A engine to bring it all together.
 
We also have a long way to go on the product, but the content and Q&A are coming along nicely. We are going to release some new features soon that will help you promote your business in an easy way, and offer groups the ability to meet privately online. But every website takes time and fine tuning to really connect with users.
 
To my loyal readers who have gone some time now without any word from me, I hope you can understand. A start-up is grueling business, especially when it’s just you at the very beginning. But we are proud of what we’ve accomplished and I hope you’ll take a moment to visit the site and also let me now what we can do better.
 
Visit Bizmore.com Here
 

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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
 
If you travel a lot like me, you know that the lighter something is the better. I don’t even bother carrying a data projector for that very reason, but it is a pain wrangling with various conference room projectors and hunting for the remote, or the video cable again and again. Wouldn’t it be nice to have something palm-sized that could get the job done and wow my audience in a nice cool gadget-y way? Enter the Pico projector.
 
The AAXA L1 is the next generation palmtop projector – boasting a new LCos (liquid crystal on silicon) technology that outclasses DLP in this form factor. What does that mean? 20-lumens 50-inch picture at 800 x 600 resolution and you don’t have to focus the imagine – the laser takes care of it for you.
 
Priced at $599 and going on sale February 12, 2010, the AAXA L1 has 160 MBs of internal storage, comes with a 2GB external USB memory stick for more storage goodness, boasts a 90 minute battery life, and will play video, audio and even word docs right from it’s own integrated media player. Translation: no more laptop if you dare.
 
Order Yours Here
Source: AAXA Technologies via Slashgear
 
Our Take: Not quite there yet in terms of brightness or battery life, but for wowing the crowds, this one will do the trick.

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
 
BEGIN ALICE RANT: Call me old fashioned, but I like my CEOs to be a little on the casual side – to a point. Bill G in his cords, Steve Jobs in his classic black mock turtleneck. But I draw the line at the ponytail. The ponytail to me signals leadership trouble, and sure enough Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz proved that today by Tweeting his resignation. As a Haiku, no less.
 
“Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more”
 
Blaming the financial meltdown for the woes at Sun is like blaming the Toyota recall on the Detroit collapse. Wonder what Larry Ellison – in his almost terrifyingly formal suits – thinks about this one?

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

Twitter hype is so loud that I am sorry to add to it, but this one caught my eye. For those stuck in office cubicles unable to tweet undetected, and who want the ease of a desktop client like TweetDeck – comes Spreadtweet. Spreadtweet is a cleaver little app written by Elliott Kember that mimics an Excel spreadsheet but actually organizes live Tweets. Best of all, he support the most popular spreadsheet formats so you truly blend in. Office OSX, Office 2003, and Office 2007.

Check it Out Here
Source: Elliott Kember.com via Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter posting (of course)

By Martin Regtien

Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
 
Sometimes the real surprising things in life come in small packages.  Particularly when they combine innovation, usefulness and amazing value for money.
 
I’m talking about the Norhtec Gecko Edubook.  This is a netbook aimed at a specific market: the same market as the OLPC which aims to bring a laptop to every child in the developing world.
While that is a laudable goal and an immense market by itself, I think the market for this little beauty is even bigger!
 
I can feel a big review coming on which is sort of ridiculous given the low cost of this product but there is so much to tell about the Edubook which has gotten me excited all right, so hang on!
 
Read the review on DigitalReviews.net here.