Fujitsu may have given me the best reason to join Facebook yet. They’re giving away a Lifebook T730 Tablet PC to one lucky person who likes them on Facebook.
In an exclusive, BGR reports that an email address may be used as the identifier in making FaceTime calls to and from the next iPod touch, which is believed will include a front-facing camera.
As we all get ready for the smoke and mirrors show Apple will put on tomorrow, secrets are rising to the surface faster than oil in the Gulf of Mexico (too soon?). Was Apple warned of antenna problems ahead of time? Bloomberg reports they did.
Xavier asked the question “What Does Evernote Have Up Its Trunk?” The surprising answer is another trunk! Evernote’s mysterious event yesterday was a roll out of Evernote Trunk, a new series of features and functionality to expand and enhance your Evernote experience.
All Things Digital is reporting that HP will be delaying the expected Q4 launch of an Android Tablet. Anyone surprised? Not me. HP has closed its deal with the Palm acquisition and I’m sure there are lots of “what do we do first” conversations going on when it comes to Tablets and slates due to [...]
Apple is doing what it has to do and calling a hastily assembled press conference for this Friday to address the iPhone 4 “death grip” issues. As stated here previously, this episode has turned into a PR disaster for Apple, far exceeding the technology issues, and Apple is moving to address it. Speculation is rampant, [...]
A rumor working its way around the Internets is that Apple is looking into using OLED panels for different-sized iPads. Exciting! Furthermore, those new iPads could arrive as soon as the last quarter of the year. Awesome! And on top of all that, it’s almost impossible that this could happen. Boo!
An outfit here in Virginia called Velocity Micro has announced a series of Android-based tablets under the collective name of Cruz. The line includes the Cruz Reader with a 3:4 ratio display intended primarily for reading eBooks; the Cruz Tablet is a widescreen 16:9 model with capacitive multi-touch display and more horsepower; and the Cruz [...]
Back in the UMPC days we saw a number of interesting BlueTooth and USB keyboard designs that included rigid form factors as well as flexible ones. With the advent of the iPad and the potential for all of those Tablet/Slates we keep hearing about, we’re sure to see a resurgence of BlueTooth keyboards, and to [...]
I’m a big fan of Google Voice and even gave it a Notebooks.com Editor’s Choice award when I reviewed it earlier this year. But the service has been cause for some embarrassment. I recently set up Google Voice for my father and he got a very odd text message. Google Voice generally does a decent job [...]
Last week I started experiencing solid AT&T 3G service at home for the first time and I speculated that AT&T must have built a new tower somewhere in my neighborhood. Well, I was right. In fact, the closest AT&T tower is now exactly 100 ft from my bedroom window. My brother has had similar frustrations [...]
Research in Motion released another sneak peak of BlackBerry 6, the upcoming mobile operating system. The UI and marketing material aren’t what I’m used to seeing from RIM and I wonder if it will resonate with its core business users. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlO8KMv7Bx4&feature=player_embedded The first video, released at WES 2010, looks like it was produced by HP”s [...]
PR experts are a dime a dozen. I know. I’ve been one. You guess right some of the time and you guess wrong as well. Tried and true strategies eventually become tired and stale as the public catches on to the game. New attempts at damage control work sometimes and don’t others. So much depends [...]
Evernote’s releasing something new on Wednesday and from what I gather it’s going to be something big. The company’s being very tight-lipped about it and we can only guess what features or other news will be announced tomorrow. Evernote is hosting a press conference in the morning at the W Hotel in San Francisco and [...]
Of course Steve Ballmer’s statement yesterday that Microsoft was “hardcore” on Tablets and that we’d see some Microsoft Tablets in 2010 was going to prompt a lot of discussion. Heck, even before he said it there was talk, most of it not too pretty. There is a decided lack of confidence from many quarters that [...]
If you own and use an iPad, live near the Redmond, WA area, and have a couple hours to spare, Microsoft wants you! Per a Facebook event posted by Microsoft User Research, Microsoft wants to get feedback from iPad users for purposes unknown. Perhaps for a new keyboard design.
The operating system that can’t be killed as more lives than many a cat (Sumo or otherwise.) Windows XP has gotten another reprieve from Microsoft and this time it’s not just for the short term. Microsoft has announced that downgrading to Windows XP will be available as an option to users of some Windows 7 [...]
It’s great that Steve Ballmer is getting people fired up about Windows 7 slates and that Microsoft is promoting the concept at their Worldwide Partner Conference. A lot of people seem very excited at the prospect of a slate running Windows 7. Here’s an idea: if you’re excited about Windows 7 slates, why not buy [...]
Now that Consumer Reports has cemented the point on the iPhone 4′s antenna problem, I feel it’s safe to share my theory that Apple knew about the problems all along and were betting that we’d all solve them on our own with cases. Sorry Apple, it was a strategically sound bet, but you lost this [...]
When I first read the headline Smartphones Flunk for Blind Users in an email newsletter my father forwarded to me, I though I was about to read that touch-enabled smartphones are completely unusable for the visually impaired. Instead, I was absolutely floored by how Joshua Miele, a Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute scientist is using his iPhone and other [...]
Hardcore fans and beta testers already know, but now it’s official: ritePen 4.0 is released, and it’s packing a bevy of multi-touch enhancements that complement its powerful pen features. You can now enter and edit text, launch apps, open websites, annotate screen captures, and do so much more using pen, finger, or mouse. Any way [...]
Consumer Reports has recently completed some testing on the now infamous iPhone 4 “Death Grip” issues and is concluding that it can not recommend the iPhone 4. The report contradicts Apple’s recent, and mostly derided, “stunned” admission that the issue is with how the software calculates and displays the cell phone bars on the screen, [...]
Steve Ballmer spoke today in Washington DC at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and said that Microsoft is “hardcore” on Tablets, having a range of Windows 7 Tablets. A user reported his remarks to Business Insider along with the snapshot of the screenshot below that lists Tablet Partners Microsoft is working with. The talk was [...]
Google is offering up a new twist in the App world. It’s an App that lets you create your own App. From what I’m reading the Google App Inventor for Android isn’t some fancy new developer tool, but rather a point and click, drag-and-drop way of quickly making your own app for the Android platform. [...]
After posting a GBM Shortcut demonstrating FastFinga’s features, I was prompted by Dan Bricklin via Twitter to check out his Note Taker HD app for the iPad. I’ve been using Note Taker HD for about a week, and I can honestly say that it is the best note taking experience I have found thus far on [...]
In addition to buying a Bumper while bumming around the Apple Store yesterday, I spent a good chunk of my time there drooling over iPad accessories. No, not the iPad itself, which were looking lonely on the floor next to the new hotness, the iPhone 4. Rather, after spending years with a slate Tablet PC, [...]
Yesterday I took care of my nephews while their mothers and my wife spent a long day at a spa in downtown San Francisco. I did my best to spoil them, keep track of all of them and make sure we did at least one thing that each one of them wanted to do. We also [...]
So I was out at a local festival today and opted to bum around the Apple Store while my wife went to Pottery Barn (again). Seeing a whole column of Bumpers on the shelf, I took advantage of the opportunity and bought one. While it fulfills the purpose of the purchase, I was surprised to [...]
How would you like to win a mobility bundle that includes an HP Pavilion dm4 notebook, Beats by Dre headphones and a Canon PowerShot SD1300 camera? All you have to do to enter this Notebooks.com giveaway is answer a few questions in our July 2010 survey about your recent or planned computer purchase. (This is [...]
Ever since capacitive touch became the go-to system for touchscreens, it’s been interesting to see the different ways people have tried to make them stylus-friendly. Neither as straightforward as the Pogo nor as tasty as a sausage (presumably), this new oStylus is similar to the Dagi in that it has a transparent head but adds [...]
This has been an insane week for me. We’re opening a production of Always Patsy Cline at a different venue from our home theatre, Historic Jordan Springs Event and Cultural Arts Center. It is a lovely venue, almost idyllic in its rural setting. At the same time we’re in the second week of rehearsals for [...]
The Microsoft KIN is a flop by any measure, but there are some numbers floating around that are beyond embarrassing to Microsoft. According to an anonymous Microsoft source quoted at Daring Fireball, Verizon has sold a grand total of 503 KINs. Pocketnow is disputing that three-digit number and pointing to the fact that there are about 8,803 [...]
British retailer John Lewis is pushing the idea that the next iPod touch will includes several upgrades, including video cameras. Seems like a reasonable enough assumption to me, but they’re also listing FaceTime video calls as a supported feature. Sorry, but cameras do not equal FaceTime.
The OLPC XO, the convertible laptop that kicked off the netbook fad, never really took off itself and fell short of the $100 price goal of the One Laptop Per Child project. But it’s still slowly pushing forward and word from Sugar Labs, the people who make the Sugar OS, is the 1.75 model will [...]
Finally! After week and week of waiting (that’s two whole weeks), they’re finally here – Flashlight apps for the iPhone 4 that use the built-in LED flash! Better yet, I found one that’s free because the developer was smart enough to do the math and use iAds.
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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 [...]
