Now’s apparently a good time to stop holding out for the iPad 3 or iPad 2 HD that was rumored to arrive later this year. According to DigiTimes, Apple has canceled its plans to produce a high-resolution iPad in late 2011.
It’s not really fair to call this a delay because, well, Apple never announced anything. The product, which …
Over the last few months, an unknown company called TabCo has teased a mystery product by posting cryptic videos to YouTube, hiring a skywriter to write “forget the fruit” outside an Apple developer conference and by sending pizza to journalists. Turns out, Tabco is a reboot of Fusion Garage, whose JooJoo tablet was an utter failure, and …
Apple’s huge successes with the iPhone and iPad have allowed the company to amass $76 billion in cash. While no one outside Apple knows what the company will do with this Scrooge McDuck-like money pile, Jean-Louis Gassée has an interesting theory: Apple should buy a wireless carrier, such as T-Mobile.
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Google dropped a bomb this morning by announcing that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Motorola Mobility, which became independent from Motorola earlier this year, currently builds Android phones such as the Droid 3 and Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom.
Android will remain open to other handset …
We all know Facebook is an easy privacy punching bag. The social network has a tendency to tinker with our personal data, and deservedly lands in hot water now and then with paranoid users, pundits and politicians.
But the latest episode in Facebook’s ongoing privacy drama has little to do with Facebook itself. Researchers at Carnegie …
Slashed prices for refurbished Kindles could be the latest sign that a new version of Amazon’s popular e-reader is imminent.
This week, Amazon dropped the price of refurbished, third-generation Kindles to $99 for a Wi-Fi model and $139 for a model with 3G and Wi-Fi. If purchased new, the same Kindles cost $139 and $189, respectively. …
Wikipedia’s got a problem: The site’s supply of magical fact-spewing robots — er, volunteer editors and contributors — is dwindling ever so slightly.
For every month of 2011, the online encyclopedia’s volunteer count has declined year-over-year, continuing a downward trend that began in 2010, according to the Wikipedia’s most recent …
Did Tuesday’s $50 price cut on the HP TouchPad strike you as ho-hum? Perhaps this weekend’s $100 price cut will do the trick.
The instant rebate will be in effect from August 5 through August 7 on HP’s website, PreCentral reports.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish)
The TouchPad debuted to lukewarm …
A pair of iTunes-related rumors hint at big plans ahead for Apple’s TV and movie service.
First up is “iTunes Replay,” which according to AppAdvice‘s unnamed sources will let users stream movies directly from Apple’s servers and easily download them to multiple Apple devices. This may depend on agreements with movie studios, as …
Last year’s BlackBerry Torch was supposed to catapult Research in Motion into the age of modern smartphones, but sluggish software and rusty specs left the Torch looking like an another product from a bygone era.
Now, RIM’s trying again with a few new BlackBerry Torch models that use faster processors, bigger screens, better cameras …
The Motorola Triumph is supposed to be the cream of the contract-free smartphone crop. Available now on Virgin Mobile for a hefty up-front price of $300, it includes features that you might not expect to find on a phone that carries no commitments, like a 4.1-inch display, 1 GHz processor, 720p video capture, front-facing camera and slim …
In the future, Mozilla’s Firefox browser might look a bit more like Google Chrome.
That’s my main takeaway from a series of early mockups for future versions of Firefox. Designer Stephen Horlander shared the renderings on Mozilla’s website (via TechCrunch), with the disclaimer that they were created “for discussion purposes” and that
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