The Toshiba Folio 100 tablet/slate is running on the Tegra 2 platform and is one of the devices that we’re anxious to hear more about. Roland from Netbooknews got his hands on one of the models at IFA and have put up a video tour of the device that begs for more coverage. The 10.1 [...]
The Galaxy Tab from Samsung has finally been officially unveiled. Yes, it is running Android 2.2, yes it is 7 inches, and yes, everything else we’ve been hearing about it is there including the fact that you can use it as a phone and it runs FLASH. Because it is running the official Android 2.2 [...]
HP introduced some nice new products today, all of which I got to check out in person during a briefing in San Francisco. I got all excited when I saw a couple of Palm reps milling around the briefing suite at the St. Regis in downtown San Francisco, but there were no new WebOS products [...]
Sprint announced today that Boston, Daytona Beach and Providence can now tap into its 4G network. This should boost sales of the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Epic 4G, and the Overdrive wireless hotspot in those areas. This is of course great news for Sprint customers, but a lot [...]
Call me tired, call me bored, or just call me. But I think Apple did its usual fall announcement focused on music and Christmas sales today and did it well. That said, there were no real surprises, but this is all about pushing dollars through the cash registers this fall into December, and I think [...]
You may be able to pre-order it today, but don’t count on mousing around with the now officially announced Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse until December. That’s right, Microsoft is officially announcing the Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse today and that is in on sale (pre-order) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Buy.com. It will set you back [...]
The ViewSonic ViewPad 7 is a tablet/slate that’s getting lots of attention at IFA this week. Johannes from NewGadgets.de got to go hands on with the device and has posted a video. From what we know the ViewPad 7 is running a 600 MHz Snapdragon processor, but the video doesn’t seem to show much lag, [...]
Whether you’re going back to school or back to whatever your normal life is, for the month of September, you can get $7 off your purchase of PDF Annotator, the ink-enabled PDF editing and creation tool from Grahl Software, and sign up to win one of three Tom Bihn Ristretto notebook bags.
Whatever Apple has in store for us at their event today, their broadcast of the event may be the big story in and of itself. Not only are they broadcasting video themselves, but they’re doing it via HTTP Live Streaming, a sign they think their standard is ready for primetime.
Motion Computing announced two new support programs designed to minimize downtime caused by faulty or damaged Tablet PCs. Many of Motion Computing’s customers work in rough environments and a downed Tablet PC can have a serious impact on their organizations.
Customers who purchase Motion Express Tablet Exchange service will receive a replacement C5v, F5v or J3500 [...]
HP has unveiled its fall line up and they include the HP Mini 210 Netbook with a Dual Core. HP’s announcement shows that they are making improvements to the Envy line of notebooks, The Pavilion dm3, as well. Some are available now and some later this fall.
On the Netbook front, the HP Mini 210 can [...]
Lenovo is offering the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 for $879, including free shipping, after an instant $100 discount and a stackable $420 off coupon code. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 is a 15.6″ notebook powered by a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 discrete graphics, 4GB DDR3 RAM and Bluetooth. Visit LogicBuy [...]
New HP subsidiary, Palm, released the developer beta of the 2.0 version of their smartphone operating system webOS. The release is focused on what developers can do with it, not what consumers can, but a lot of cool features were revealed.
GigaOM teammates Ryan Lawler of NewTeeVee and one Kevin C. Tofel of jkOnTheRun provide commentary and video showing off Kev’s Nexus One running Android 2.2 Froyo and Adobo Flash 10.1. Or at least trying to run Flash 10.1. The results are not good, but are they “shockingly bad”?
Okay, we weren’t really that unsuspecting, but it’s still impressive that ARCHOS is beefing up their line of media tablets with five new models running Android, including a model with 2.8″ display starting under $100.
Pogoplug announced the availability of the Pogoplug Biz and the PogoPlug WiFi Adapter. The Pogoplug Biz is a device aimed at small business that allows them to create a data cloud that can be accessed by clients. The wireless extender allows any PogoPlug to hop on a Wi-Fi network rather than having to stay within [...]
Borders fired another salvo in the eBook Reader wars today announcing that it will drop the price of Aluratek Libre to $99. Yes, Virginia, we’ve got a below $100 eBook Reader. The move follows Amazon’s earlier price cuts on the Kindle 3. The Kobo Reader, which Borders also has a big stake in, will also [...]
Microsoft Research puts a lot of thought into how users interact with computers. In this video, they evaluate different methods of manipulating objects with a multi-touch mouse. The resulting report shows that it’s a pretty complex challenge to build a multi-touch mouse that’s more usable than an ordinary mouse or a multi-touch display. While the [...]
Google’s introducing an automatic filtering tool called Priority Inbox that predicts which emails you’ll want to read. Think of it as a reverse spam filter that, over time, learns which contacts are most important and which emails are likely to be read and responded to.
If you’ve been online long enough, you probably remember the good [...]
ViewSonic Europe pushed out a press release announcing their new ViewPad 7, a 7-inch Android-based slate leaked about a week ago. Interestingly, in addition to the features of previous Android tablets, it also includes voice calling and access to the Android Market.
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