Webb School of Knoxville, a private school that spans from elementary to high school, has chosen the iPad as their computing device of choice, above eReaders and notebooks. It is now a mandatory tool for their 4-12 grade students and teachers, acting as both a reading device and mobile computer. They present some compelling points [...]
Google has indicated that after the delayed release of in-app payments for apps and games from Android Market, Android users and developers will get that feature enabled ‘soon.’ The feature was supposed to have been released last quarter, according to All Things D, but Google had postponed the launch to accommodate developers who were busy [...]
With news that the United States Patent & Trademark office having rejected HP’s application for the PalmPad mark, HP has been filing for a number of alternative trademarks for its upcoming webOS tablet. One of the trademark filed was for the TouchPad name. The device in question bears the codename of Topaz and would represent [...]
A recently leaked document with important release dates for upcoming high profile phones and tablets for wireless carrier T-Mobile USA was obtained by TmoNews. That document confirms the anticipated release dates for the LG G-Slate tablet, the Dell Streak 7, as well as the Galaxy S 4G, also referred to by some as the Vibrant [...]
In what may be seen as a last ditch effort to keep the print publishing business alive, Microcosm Publishing, a bookseller in Portland, Oregon, is making a deal with Kindle owners. Owners of the Amazon e-reader can go to the company’s store to swap their Kindle for the equivalent in books with printed pages. While [...]
I’m very fortunate to live and work in San Francisco and make my way down to Silicon Valley once or twice a week. Geek friends and acquaintances from other locales often tell me that nobody else ‘gets’ why they’re so passionate about technology or what they do for work. That’s not really a problem here in [...]
Recent changes to Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G flagship Android smartphone television commercials observed by Beatweek suggests that the Now Network may be preparing itself for an iPhone launch in the future. The EVO 4G commercial was recently seen amended with the quote the EVO was a superior option to the iPhone 4 removed. Rival Verizon [...]
Verizon’s chief operating officer confirmed that the carrier will offer a $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone users, according to the WSJ Digits blog. The move is an attempt to woo AT&T iPhone users who are grandfathered into unlimited plans, which AT&T stopped offering last year with the introduction of the iPhone 4. Of course [...]
Are you ready for some foo… Oh wait, I was thinking of the National Football Conference. In this case, NFC refers to Near-Field Communication, a wireless technology already used on some countries to turn phones into digital wallets. Google’s pushing it in Android with the Nexus S. Now word from Bloomberg is Apple is doing [...]
Following an earlier leak of the HP webOS tablet, codenamed Topaz, leak, we now have information on some of the user interface and user experience elements on the tablet. PreCentral, which first reported on the webOS tablet’s UI, is saying that they aren’t sure whether the UI elements discovered will make it the final webOS [...]
In spite of a prior AT&T leak that Motorola’s flagship Atrix 4G on AT&T’s network would arrive in early March, a leak was revealed that Best Buy may be carrying the unit a few weeks earlier, landing the device on February 13. According to Phandroid, February 13th marks the arrival date of the Atrix 4G [...]
Reuters is reporting that RIM will deliver a way to keep work stuff on the workbench and fun stuff in the sandbox on BlackBerrys. The system is called BlackBerry Balance and it’s designed to keep RIM at the top of the enterprise smartphone market while catering to the rapidly growing consumer market.
Mary Jo Foley is linking to some slide assets from Microsoft that are intended to show Microsoft partners how to stem the tide of the iPad and other Tablets coming down the pike. Yeah, I know this might all be too little too late, but even more troubling, as well as more predictable, Microsoft proves [...]
The HTC Merge, an Android handset with a landscape-oriented QWERTY slider, may be launching on regional carrier Alltel’s network rather than Verizon Wireless’s national network. It’s unclear if the leaked image is indication of such change as the handset shown in the picture is still devoid of physical branding other than a wallpaper on the [...]
Shawn Durbravac has put together a list of Tablets launched at CES 2011. It’s a long one. It’s, in my opinion, and overwhelming one and just by the sheer weight of the list you can see that by next year this time, this list will probably be a lot smaller with a lot of culling [...]
A leaked document obtained by BGR reveals wireless carrier AT&T’s plans on imposing different types of tiers for its 4G LTE smartphone plans. Although the carrier will utilize the first half of 2011 to transition to HSPA+ and market those smartphones as 4G, it will be launching 4G LTE smartphones, like rival Verizon Wireless, in [...]
Specs for the rumored HTC-made Android tablet, also referred to as the HTC Flyer, has been leaked and reveals that the slate will utilize a 7-inch form factor and sport a Qualcomm processor. The HTC Flyer will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processor, which will be a 1 GHz processor and will utilize [...]
Verizon Wireless may be differentiating its data plan offerings to create a tiered pricing structure for 4G LTE plans, which would offer faster download and upload speeds. The company had recently revised its data plan marketing materials, to now explicitly specify that the $30 data plan refers to “3G” smartphones and feature phones. The addition [...]
Microsoft is fighting an uphill battle against the iPad and has outlined how it hopes partners will fight that battle in the near future. There’s a PowerPoint floating around that encourages Windows 7 slate resellers to sell directly against the iPad with some pretty stale arguments. Keep in mind, these PowerPoint slides are intended to [...]
Google is now releasing an extension for users of its Chrome browser that will help with privacy concerns. The extension, which can be downloaded here, will allow users to opt out of ad tracking. The company has noted some of the features and downsides of using the news privacy extension on its blog: However, the [...]
Technology has changed the way in which we parent, raise kids, and groom them with marketable skills later in life as they hit the job market. In a study conducted by AVG, it was found that more children between the ages of two and five-years old could play with a smartphone than could tie their [...]
Virgin Mobile, a pre-paid wireless subsidiary of Sprint, will be following its mothership in adding another smartphone to its lineup. Like Sprint, which has offered the Android-powered Samsung Intercept, Virgin Mobile USA will be taking another page from Sprint’s playbook by bringing the Optimus One to its lineup. The Optimus V (V for Virgin Mobile) [...]
Two trademarks were dug up by Engadget for two smartphones for Sprint’s Now Network–the HTC Arrive and the Kyocera Echo. At this point, not a lot of information is known about either handsets, except that Engadget anticipates the HTC Arrive will mark the arrival of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform on a CDMA network. For [...]
With rumors that Nokia will be announcing its first MeeGo-powered smartphone, which has been referred to as the Nokia N9 on the Internet so far, at Mobile World Congress, we are now glimpsing an image of what is believed to be Nokia’s 4.5-inch tablet/smartphone hybrid. Previous leaks of the device shows a form factor similar [...]
With HP having already teased that it will launch a webOS-based tablet in the near future, we now have more information about its Topaz codenamed tablet, of which the company has filed for the Touchpad trademark. Along with the hardware specs for the tablet and its ability to sync wirelessly with the cloud, PreCentral has [...]
Along with going 3D for its Tegra 2 processors in Spring, NVIDIA will be upping the mobile processing ante with a quad-core Tegra 3 release come this fall according to a leaked slide revealing the company’s roadmap obtained by Engadget. The leak isn’t surprising as the company had previously already alluded to quad-core mobile processors [...]
With 3D displays and screens still attracting a lot of attention, especially on the smaller screen, NVIDIA is positioning itself to capitalize on the emerging market with its mobile chipsets. The dual-core ARM Cortex A9-based Tegra 2 will add 3D capabilities come this Spring according to a leaked slide from Tech Eye. The company’s Tegra [...]
Google announced Google Cloud Print for mobile documents. Like most all new Google services, Google Cloud Print for mobile carries the beta tag. The service will be rolled out to Google users over the next few days. Google Cloud Print allows users to print documents without having to worry about setting up software or drivers [...]
Well, it’s been a long, long wait, but the first Adam tablets from Notion Ink are finally reaching users and the first unboxings in the wild are up at NotionInkFan.com.
Among other problems I ran into (literally) over the weekend, my media PC suffered a failure to save application data, which wreaked havoc with my ability to watch online video and reduced my Wacom pen tablet to a mouse in pen form. Internet TV and Netflix in Windows Media Center kept crashing. Saved passwords for [...]
The earlier news that the Motorola Xoom will be priced at $799 may be premature. Engadget has uncovered both a launch date and a tip that it will be priced at a lower $699.99. But will it be enough to quell the critics?
If true, this is a wrong move. Android Central has uncovered data that lists the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) of the Motorola Xoom Tablet at $799. I would assume that is before any subsidy. Even so, in my view that’s steep for a Tablet in this day and age.
Maybe the naming committee at Toshiba is just having a hard time or maybe not having a name for the promised new 10 inch Tablet is all a part of the tease. Regardless, Toshiba has launched a new web site to tease its upcoming Android Tablet. And it smacks at its competitors pretty much all [...]
It looks like Internet reports that Google had actually copied Java’s code–owned now by Oracle–inside its Android operating system is incorrect. ZDNet discovered that the sensational article published recently by Engadget, which has been since picked up by numerous other tech and gadget blogs, is incorrect. Acording to ZDNet, the first set of files in [...]
It looks like HTC may be evolving its proprietary and customer user interface overlay on its upcoming tablet products. The company calls its custom UI HTC Sense on its smartphone, but a recent trademark filing in the EU for the term ‘HTC Sensation’ may reveal that HTC Sense may get a new name in future [...]
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