ULTRAVIAS - Notebook, Laptop and mobile device reviews

After selling out over the winter holidays, Barnes & Noble's e-book reader is back online and is set to arrive in B&N stores by midweek.

document management with OCR: PaperPort has the consumer-level document management market pretty much to itself. There are more sophisticated, dedicated systems available for corporate customers, but they attract corporate-level prices. PaperPort 12, the latest incarnation of the program, costs under...

compact budget all-in-one: With reams of budget all-in-ones (AIOs) available for casual users there's a constant battle between speed, quality and value, and HP has attempted to find the right combination yet again here with the PhotoSmart C4680. We...

refresh of the original BlackBerry Bold: The original BlackBerry Bold did quite a lot of good for RIM in terms of carrying it away from its purely business-user focus and towards a wider audience. The Bold 9700 does yet more, maintaining a...

this month's round up of iPhone apps: This month's round-up is full of nice smells, natural science and no small measure of strangeness as we take the temperatures of an aromatherapy app, get travel news direct from the heart of government, learn how...

compact HD camcorder with 10-megapixel stills camera: Long gone are the days of having to lug around a hefty beast of a video camera. For the casual user who just wants videos fit for YouTube or needs a lightweight, portable device for taking...

budget DirectX 11 graphics card: Radeon HD 5670 is the latest member of ATi's Radeon HD 5000 family of DirectX 11 graphics chips that are fabricated using 40nm technology. We're reviewing a 512MB version of the HD 5670 from Sapphire, however...

tiny but fully-featured 3G and 802.11N Wi-Fi router: If there were awards for cramming the most networking technology into the smallest package, the Solwise 3G11nMRW Mobile Router would have a bulging trophy cabinet. It's a miniature 3.5G (HSPA/UMTS) router with 10/100Mbps Ethernet and 802.11B/G/N...

portable and versatile media streaming jukebox: We've looked at a few of Lacie's media streamers/jukeboxes over the last couple of years and while the LaCinema Rugged sported an interesting design, performance and usability were sadly lacking. The company has faired better with...

online Civilization clone that's both real-time and turn-based: Think Civilization. Much like Sid Meier's original strategy gem, World Empires Live is played out on a map of the world, with every country striving to conquer others, advance their technology level, and make money via...