Apple may have used its clout to get Ellen DeGeneres to apologize for her spoof of the iPad. News of that caused a bit of a stir earlier this week. But somehow I think Ellen got the best of the deal and another good dig in at Apple for saying they wanted her to apologize. [...]
Ah, the world of legal beagles and patent disputes. Nokia and Apple have already sued and counter-sued each other over patents regarding their Smartphone patents. Now, Nokia is upping the ante a bit and going after Apple and its iPad 3G. Nokia is claiming that the technology baked into the iPad 3G infringes on five [...]
Sascha at NetbookNews informs us that the WePad folks are changing the name of their device to…. wait for it…the WeTab. I’m guessing this has to do with avoiding any potential legal problems down the road over the word “Pad.” Note that Apple claims it has a trademark, but others say they don’t.
It’s just a rumor so far, but that rumor is that Toshiba is working on a 13 inch notebook/netbook that has a super fast charging SCIB battery. How fast is super fast? Supposedly it will take a charge up to 90% in 10 minutes. The device also has a USB 3.0 port (get ready to [...]
If you’ve got an iPad with 3G and are at a loss on how to get your own SIM or mini-SIM card to work with its micro-SIM port, a fellow named John Benson has a solution… and it involves a meat cleaver.
TechCrunch has the scoop on a new program Apple is rolling out for developers called “ViP” or Verification of iTunes Purchase, which TC magically connects to iAd. Sounds like a useful tool, but just because the program deals with ads, that doesn’t mean it’s related to iAd.
Some events alter the landscape forever and, as humans, our reactions to those events often alter them even more in the aftermath. The last few months have seen some large events visited on the planet by Mother Nature and at least one by man. And of course when it comes to earthquakes, volcanoes, and flooding [...]
Fortune Tech at CNNMoney.com presents data from Katy Hubert of investment firm Morgan Stanley to illustrate how growth in the netbook market has severely declined. Paired with a chart showing what products people are skipping in favor of the iPad, it looks like the iPad is “gobbling up” netbook sales… maybe.
Paging Alan Funt. Somebody decided to rig up a package of Microsoft Office with an alarm, put in on the sidewalk and see who would pick it up. The results are in the video. You know it’s not safe to pick up strange packages don’t you? Via Gizmodo
The bunker at Adobe must have quite a few scars on it from all the shelling being lobbed at the company of late. According to this ZDNet UK report, Ian Drew, the VP of Marketing for ARM is now pointing the finger at Adobe’s delay in bringing Flash up to snuff as the principal reason [...]
I guess it had to happen. Sooner or later someone was going to come up with a case that turned the iPad essentially into a Netbook. The folks behind the Clamcase case look like they’ve done it. The Clamcase is scheduled for later this year. The case contains an integrated BlueTooth keyboard, and allows you [...]
HP still isn’t commenting officially on rumors that began last week about the end of the HP Slate. There’s lots of speculation out there that all sort of make sense. You know that HP can probably manage to put out a Windows based slate and an Android based slate, and a WebOS based slate, etc… [...]
The Microsoft Store is offering the Dell Adamo XPS 13 super thin notebook for $1,599, including free shipping, after a 20% off coupon code. The Dell Adamo XPS 13 comes with a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Windows 7, 4 GB DDR3 RAM and a 128GB SSD drive. Visit LogicBuy for more information and coupon [...]
Usually I’m quick to point out that a camera’s megapixel rating is a poor indicator of quality. But in the case of the Droid Incredible and Nexus One, two nearly identically spec’d phones from HTC, I assumed the 8MP DI camera would outshine the N1′s 5MP. Appears that’s not so.
Collin Cunningham shows how to create a DIY stylus for those capacitive touch screen devices we all know and love. It looks pretty simple if you’ve got some conductive foam at your disposal.
Oprah has the HTC EVO phone and obviously Sprint wants you to have it too when it comes out this summer. Of course one of the big attractions is that the EVO is the first 4G phone and it will use ClearWire’s WiMAX for its coverage. Assuming you’re in an area that has that coverage. [...]
Zach Epstein at Know Your Cell has taken it upon himself to see if the iPad’s so-called “unlimited” 3G plan is truly unlimited. Of course, with an upper limit on data speed and finite amount of time in a month, it can’t be truly unlimited, but 30GB in two days should cover most people.
A complaint filed with Verizon was cc’d to The Consumerist regarding what the complainant believes to be unnecessary software pre-loaded on to his Droid Incredible. We here would call that “crapware”. The plaintiff uses much harsher language.
If you remember what Steve Jobs said about Android, ” Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.” Well, this has sparked some scrutiny by the Parents Television Council. The council is behind the push to make Apple’s App Store more family-friendly. They are using what Steve Jobs said as a launching platform to go [...]
HP lifted the embargo on a ton of new notebooks today. Our sister blog Notebooks.com has the scoop on all of them, plus exclusive photos. Sadly, no tablets, netbooks or other devices that fit our particular niche to report, but there is a touchscreen option on the Pavilion dv6 with 15.6″ display.
Cutting out tethers to keyboards is not an easy thing regardless of how many touch-based devices we see and use. And given the iPad’s big launch, I’m guessing that BlueTooth keyboards are going to be in vogue again here shortly, as already we’re seeing a number of folks (like me) dusting off their iGo Stowaway [...]
Intel is finally taking the wraps off of its Moorestown processor, now called the Atom Z6. Jumping into a crowded field, Intel is targeting the Smartphone market for the Z6 and is looking at the platform as a home for both the Meego and Android operating systems, but they claim it scales nicely for Tablet/Slates [...]
I guess we knew this was coming. Adobe certainly isn’t laying down and rolling over in the wake of Apple’s anti-Flash campaign, even though it appears that quite a few content publishers are shifting gears away from Adobe’s product. At the Web 2.o Conference in San Francisco, Adobe was showing off prototype Tablets running both [...]
HP’s been selling glossy consumer notebook computers for years. A lot of us have complained about how these gloss monsters can attract fingerprints and grime. They might look pretty on store shelves, but they don’t always look so hot in the real world. Last week I spent some time with HP’s notebook design director and [...]
Google finally pulled the curtain back on how they’re going to monetize their book search service with what they’re calling Google Editions. No surprise, they’ll be selling them in digital format.
Our friends over at Laptop Mag were forced to model some iPad bags in public and are asking readers if these kinds of bags are manly enough. I generally refuse to carry tiny gadget bags that can easily be mistaken for a purse. Some guys can pull it off, but at 6′ 4″ and 200 pounds [...]
Mary-Jo Foley has been digging into some secret Microsoft projects and speculates that one of them may be the key to Microsoft’s answer to the iPad. Hint: it’s kind of like what Apple did for the iPhone OS.
According to a Network Applications report, Internet Explorer’s popularity’s at 10 year low. Less than 60% of web users are choosing to surf with IE and more than 40% are opting for alternatives such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari. The share of GBM readers visiting this site with IE is falling pretty quickly.Based on our web statistics [...]
Lifehacker has done their own testing in a comparison of notebook battery usage in sleep mode. While hardly an exhaustive test, they did put a few different models through the challenge, including a new 15″ Macbook Pro and an ASUS Eee PC.
Talk about a lineage. John Gruber links to Paul Thurrott spinning off of John Dvorak’s recent column about Microsoft’s woes. In my view Thurrott aims and hits the mark. His point(s) is that Microsoft is blowing it as it tries to play the marketing game, something I’ve argued for quite some time. Thurrott’s observations add [...]
Maybe some of the Nigerian spammers are looking at going legit. James Kendrick is pointing to pics and specs for the Encipher Tablet, which is coming from Nigerian company Encipher Limited. The pics are on the Facebook page, the specs have been popping up on the web. Of course it is running Android and version [...]
I love the silliness of products that get labeled “________ killer.” I’ve seen very few products that kill off another one, instead I’ve seen many that try to leech onto a market that’s already been somewhat established. But then that’s no fun for headline writers. But then again, you can’t blame a company for trying [...]
Lenovo is offering the Lenovo ThinkPad X201 12″ ultra-light notebook for $934, including free shipping, after an instant $290 discount and a stackable 15% off coupon code. The Lenovo ThinkPad X201 comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 12.1″ display, 2GB RAM, a 160 GB hard drive and a 4 cell battery. Visit LogicBuy for [...]
Report out of Korean site etnews is that Samsung is prepping an iPad competitor codenamed S-Pad. While its reported 7-inch screen will evoke memories of the Q1 UMPC, the rest of the device sounds markedly different, particularly the AMOLED display and Bada OS instead of Windows.
We mobile users are an impatient lot and I think that’s part of the psychology. Being mobile we want everything now or sooner. Quite a few DropBox users have been very impatient waiting for that popular free cloud service to update its app for the iPad, and well, they just did. The DropBox App for [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
