LCD PRICES DROPPING

Slowly but surely LCD prices are coming down. An example in today’s junk mail: Costco Online has a good price on some highly rated Xerox flat panel monitors – a 17″ model (Xerox XL775D) for $329.99 or a 19″ model (Xerox XL795D) for...

MULTIMEDIA

Aging baby boomers will soon be unable to recognize anything handling media in the home of an affluent 25-year-old. The convergence between the computer world and the audio/video world is happening faster than anyone can follow. There are dozens of devices hitting the...

PRICE DROPS ON MEMORY DEVICES

Prices are down and capacities are up on memory cards and devices. Here’s some random examples from a sale at Buy.com tonight: – 1Gb Compact Flash card for $82. It was impossible to get a gigabyte on a memory card until very recently, and this is marked...

LASER MOUSE

Most of you have switched over to an optical mouse – no more gunk clogging up the ball, no more jerking the mouse hard to force the cursor to move, right? By now you’ve found out that the optical mouse is not quite as forgiving as they made it sound, and...

FREE RECYCLING AT OFFICE DEPOT

Office Depot has partnered with HP to offer free recycling this summer. From July 18 through September 6, you’ll be able to bring one electronic item per day for recycling at no charge. This is a nice offer – environmentally sensitive and helpful to...

COLOR LASER PRINTERS

Printer prices are in freefall. Inkjet and all-in-one printers under a hundred dollars, laser printers under two hundred dollars – and now color laser printers have dropped below five hundred dollars. At that price, small businesses have to consider them –...