A couple years ago, Intel was keen on steering people away from netbooks. The chip maker asked retailers to warn consumers about what netbooks can’t do, and created the “ultra-thin” category to provide a more powerful — and more expensive — alternative.
My, how things have changed.
According to DigiTimes, Intel will offer its …
Twitter has made its acquisition of TweetDeck official, while trying to assure users that their beloved third-party client won’t go away.
TweetDeck is an excellent tool for Twitter power users, showing news feeds, replies and other customizable categories as a series of columns. It can also pull in news feeds and wall posts from …
All bets are on Google launching a mobile payment platform with Sprint on Thursday, allowing people to pay for goods and services with their smartphones.
The mobile payment concept, which relies on technology called near-field communications (NFC) embedded in smartphones, has a lot of potential. In the long haul, it may eventually …
Opera’s littlest web browser, Opera Mini, just got a big update for iOS, with optimization for the iPad. This free browser underdog provides a great experience on Apple’s tablet, but it has too many frustrations to fully replace the iPad’s default Safari browser.
There’s a lot to like about Opera Mini on the iPad. The browser’s …
A big update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is coming this autumn, filling in many of the missing pieces that made Microsoft an also-ran in the smartphone wars. But the so-called “Mango” update is more than just a game of catch-up; it also brings a bunch of features that other phones don’t have, or can only add through third-party …
The iPad is an awesome musical tool, with apps like GarageBand, Korg iElectribe, Mugician and Looptastic. Just one problem: If you’re a performing musician, there’s no easy way to strap in your iPad and strut around the stage.
A couple guys named Casey Ayers and Patrick Duffy think they’ve got the answer with Trubador, an iPad case …
Kobo, the perpetual e-reader underdog, is back in action with the $130 Kobo Touch.
The Kobo Touch has a 6-inch Pearl E-Ink display, and uses the same kind of touch screen technology found in Sony’s latest Reader Touch Edition, according to The Digital Reader. Infrared sensors around the edges of the screen detect the users’ fingers …
The Macbook Air rivals are coming.
It started with Samsung’s Series 9, a pair of ultra-thin laptops cased in aircraft-grade materials and running on Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge platform. As you might expect, pricing caused a wince at $1,200 for an 11-inch model and $1,650 for a 13-inch model.
Next up is Dell, which will do its best …
Someone in retail’s not happy about Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook.
An anonymous source, reportedly from a “major big box retailer,” told Boy Genius Report that RIM’s tablet missed sales targets by more than 90 percent. The source also said that return rates were much higher than those of the Motorola Xoom, which itself was …
One of the greatest things about Android is that phone makers can cram the software into whatever hardware they like. It’s also one of the worst things about Android, as proven by Sharp’s upcoming Android clamshell phone.
This abomination, dubbed the Aquos Hybrid 007SH, hides a 3.4-inch display underneath one of its swiveling, …
Ladies and gentlemen, another tablet is entering the arena. HTC’s Flyer, a 7-inch Android slab, will be available at Best Buy for $500 starting this Sunday.
The HTC Flyer has a 1.5 GHz single-core processor, front- and rear-facing cameras, 16 GB of on-board storage, a microSD expansion slot and a micro-USB port. It runs Android 2.3 …
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In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
