Number One Plus: Can HP Tablets Take Down the iPad?

HP’s TouchPad tablet is due out this summer and, speaking to the press recently, HP’s Eric Cador said, “In the tablet world, we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.”

Silly Legal Action Won’t Stop Twitter in the U.K.

Twitter is coming to London, despite the super-injunction row it got pulled into last week.

Apple Starts Using iPads to Sell iPads

We all know how Apple likes to “Think Different”, but its latest thinking is more different than usual.

Twitter’s Super-Duper U.K. Censorship Trouble

The U.K. media is atwitter this weekend over a controversy about press gag-orders known as “super-injunctions” that have recently been disobeyed on Twitter. It’s an unlikely combination of celebrities, sex, social media, and press freedoms that has exploded into a scandal that led Twitter this week to break its U.K. traffic record and get sued [...]

Study: iPad Readers Retain Less Than Newspaper Readers

A new study from French internet company Miratech took a look at the reading patterns of newspaper readers versus iPad readers. Utilizing eye tracking technology and using subjects who already owned iPads, they were able to conclude that, for various reasons, newspaper readers were able to retain more of the information they read than iPad [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook Flopped Hard, Says Retail Source

Someone in retail’s not happy about Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook.

Deadly Explosion at iPad Production Plant in China

An explosion at a Foxconn plant in Chengdu, China has killed two people and injured 16 others, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Chengdu plant is one of two facilities owned by Foxconn that produces iPads for Apple.

Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions for Your Perusal

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

Emanata: Just Like Starting Over and Over

The end of the world has happened before, and might be happening again in a couple of months, at least in comics. It’s no big deal.

Photoshopped Gyllenhaal Makes Real Gyllenhaal Upset, Litigious

Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t want you looking at him in his underwear.

RIAA Starts Going After Cloud Storage Sites?

With its lawsuit against LimeWire successfully settled, the Recording Industry Association of America has set its legal sights on another foe in the world of internet filesharing, filing against Box.net, a six-year-old company offering cloud storage to users.