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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Review

Samsung sent us a Galaxy Nexus to review and one of the key features that comes with the Galaxy Nexus is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which is currently the latest version of Android. Ice Cream Sandwich is only running on 1.6 percent of all Android devices so chances are you haven't used Ice Cream … [Read more...]

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What I Think Amazon Should Add To The Kindle Fire

This year as part of Amazon's Kindle lineup they have the Kindle Fire. The Fire is a nice mix of an e-reader and a tablet. The e-reader part being the fact that it really works well with Amazon's Kindle books and the tablet part being the fact that it runs Android and has a lot of features other … [Read more...]

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Windows 8 Developer Preview Review, And Build 2011 Wrap Up

This year at Build 2011 Microsoft had something very new to announce. They announced Windows 8, although not completely new since they showed it off earlier this year. They did however really give us information about it while last time we heard about Windows 8 it was very brief and not very … [Read more...]

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Windows 8 Developer Preview First Impressions/Hands From Netbook

Yesterday Microsoft gave us a lot of new information about Windows 8. They showed a lot of demos of the operating system and announced things like the requirements and new features. But probably the biggest thing they did was release the developer preview last night for Windows 8. The developer … [Read more...]

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Linode 512 Xen VPS Review, Compared To Media Temple

I've been using Media Temple for web hosting for quite a while now. I've been using Media Temple for over a quarter of this year to host ZL Studios. I started with their Grid Service (gs) for hosting but I needed a bit more so I decided to go with their virtual private servers starting with their … [Read more...]

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Dell Streak 10 Pro Honeycomb Tablet Shows Up In China

Dell has their Streak lineup of tablets with the Dell Streak 5 and the Dell Streak 7. Both aren't really true tablets in my opinion though since they aren't running Google's tablet version of Android which is Honeycomb. Instead they are running the smartphone version of Android. But recently Dell … [Read more...]

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ZL Daily #61.5 – WWDC 2011: iOS 5 Features, iCloud, Mac OS X Lion Features…

Today along with E3 2011 Apple held WWDC 2011. Now E3 is more of an electronics entertainment event where Microsoft talked about video games. WWDC is an Apple developer event where Apple talked about a ton of new software. So first off Apple talked about Mac OS X Lion. It includes over 200 new … [Read more...]

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Netcom Announces MicroSD Card With Built In NFC Chip

Not many current phones have NFC chips built in, that's probably because it's a fairly new technology that hasn't really been used for much quite yet. But Google announced the Google Wallet service that will take advantage of NFC technology for payments. The only problem is not many phones have NFC … [Read more...]

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Acer Announces The W4, A Windows Phone Mango Phone

So Microsoft didn't announce any of the upcoming phones that will run Windows Phone Mango last week when they announced the new operating system. But that's not stopping companies from showing off mockups of upcoming Mango smartphones. So today at Computex 2011 you can find the Acer W4. The W4 at … [Read more...]

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Acer Announces TravelMate 8481 Notebook

So if you're looking for a new notebook computer with a pretty nice new display then you might like what Acer announced today at Computex 2011. They announced the TravelMate 8481. So this new TravelMate 8481 from Acer has a 14.1-inch 1366x768 display that's made from LG's Shuriken technology. The … [Read more...]