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.
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First there was the iPhone. Then came Android. And everyone was like, “Android’s great but it’s no iPhone!” Now everyone’s like, “Android’s great, look out iPhone!” Then David Wang cut the fluff and made it so you can install Android on your iPhone.
The previously covered Android-to-iPhone hack now has a how-to writeup …
Though HP has confirmed that it’ll load Palm’s webOS on tablet PCs and even printers, Monty Wong of HP Taiwan has said that the company’s netbooks will not be running the mobile-friendly operating system “since netbooks are more similar in functions with traditional computers,” according to DigiTimes.
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Though not technically a netbook — Sony prefers that it be referred to as a “Lifestyle PC” — the almost impossibly small Sony VAIO P features an Intel Atom processor, unbelievably high resolution screen, and a few unique features you won’t find in other netbooks.
Here’s a quick first look before it comes out this June. …
Well hello there, Nvidia tablet prototype. You’re looking chipper. My, that’s a nice dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor you have and, oh dear, you’ve got Tegra 2 graphics? A whole gigabyte of RAM? Webcam? Two USB ports?
Here’s a hands-on demo video of the tablet in action:
There’s a widescreen capacitive multitouch …
This probably isn’t the first Twitter tattoo (henceforth known as a twattoo) and it probably won’t be the last, but it’s the latest. An enterprising young lady has decided to work at building her personal brand by getting a tattoo that says “follow me” in Twitter’s font next to Twitter’s bird logo along her left arm. Her …
Citing the difficulty inherent in finding web-based applications, Google has announced its own web store, fittingly called the Chrome Web Store. It’ll feature one-click purchases tied to your Google account, and purchased browser-based applications will appear right on your Chrome start page.
During the keynote at its 2010 …
The year was 1997. Yours truly was graduating from high school, no doubt wearing a braided belt and some sort of Phish tee shirt while hard-working scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were trying to figure out what in the hell they had just recorded from deep, deep in the Pacific Ocean. It was a …
Silly though that headline may sound, manufacturers who wish to sell netbooks with screens larger than 10 inches have had to swap out the made-for-netbooks Atom N-series processors with either Z-series chips, made for mobile internet devices and smaller tablets, or even cram a D-series desktop Atom processor into a netbook, as ASUS has …
Where were you when AT&T first promised that tethering would be available on the iPhone? It seems like eons ago now. Take heart, though, because a tethering option has been spotted in the beta version of the new iPhone operating system that’s set to reach consumers sometime next month.
Now before you get too excited, a similar …
I live in Boston. Charlestown, if you’re familiar with the area. The other night I was over in the North End for dinner, which is about a mile or so from my place. The North End is Boston’s preeminent Italian neighborhood and most weekend nights are jam-packed with tourists and locals looking for dinner. Getting there by cab, even …
The “several sources” quoted by VentureBeat that said an Acer netbook running Google’s in-the-cloud Chrome operating system would be unveiled in a couple weeks have apparently been misinformed, according to Acer.
DigiTimes reports that the company “has no short-term plans for such a product” but that it will be following …
