ViewSonic will be bringing its 7- and 10-inch tablets to the U.S. in the coming months.
The 7-inch ViewPad 7 features "3.5G capable data technology," which seems like a tip-off that it’ll work with T-Mobile’s HSPA+ (faster-than-3G-but- we-can’t-officially-call-it-4G) network. It’ll have Android Market access, too.
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At first glance, the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830 looks like an ordinary netbook; it’s about an inch thick and weighs around three pounds.
Under the hood, however, there’s a powerful Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. While the computer looks and feels like a netbook, it definitely performs like a …
China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Part of the reason behind Tianhe-1A’s speed comes …
T-Mobile: Wednesday, November 10th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year contract
Data plans: $25/month for 200MB, $40/month for 5GB
Verizon: Thursday, November 11th
Price: $599.99 with no contract
Data plans: $20/month for 1GB, $35/month for 3GB, $50/month for 5GB
Sprint: Sunday, November 14th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about the new direction that Apple is taking Macs–which is about bringing some of the simplicity of the iPhone and iPad to the 27-year-old Mac platform. The first chapter in that story is last week’s introduction of all-new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air models–and the most striking thing …
Research in Motion (RIM) CEO Mike Lazaridis showed off his company’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet at a conference for Adobe developers yesterday. The real-time demo features a look at the tablet’s multitasking abilities as well as how it handles browser-based Flash video …
Retail giant Best Buy is getting in on the 7-inch Android tablet action that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is promising this holiday season.
The iPads and Tablets section of Best Buy’s website links to the Verizon and Sprint versions of the 3G-enabled Galaxy Tab, which are both priced at $650. That’s a bit curious, as Verizon will be …
The long-awaited HP Slate is finally here. And it’s not that it’s being announced now and will be out in a few months—it’s here, here.
The problem is that it costs $799. That shouldn’t concern us, though, because this Windows 7 tablet “is designed specifically for business, enterprise and vertical customers.” Consumers will get …
Among the announcements from Apple’s press event yesterday, we heard about the new Mac App Store. If you’ve ever downloaded an app to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, you’ll feel right at home with this. The Mac App Store will be rolled out within 90 days, according to Apple.
Unlike with Apple’s mobile devices, you’ll still be able to …
Apple is holding its Back to the Mac media event today at 1:00 PM, Eastern. We could all wait patiently for the company to announce whatever it’s going to announce, or we could go the fun route and engage in wild speculation.
Here’s a look at what’s rumored to be heading our way today.
Mac OS X Lion
Apple’s been using cats …
Our long wait for US pricing on Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet is now over. Samsung and Verizon have announced that it’ll cost $600 out the door with no contract. Data plans using Verizon’s 3G network can be added on a month-to-month basis starting at $20 per month for 1GB of data.
Verizon will be selling the Galaxy …
As flavors of Linux go, Ubuntu has been pretty popular over the years. The open source operating system can be installed on a wide range of computer hardware, and there’s even a version called Ubuntu Netbook that’s specially made to optimize the relatively tight 1024×600 screen resolution found on many of today’s netbooks.
The most …
