Rumor has it that Steven Sinofsky–the guy who runs Windows for Microsoft–will show off the next version of Windows at the Wall Street Journal’s “D” conference next week. (I used that possibility as an excuse to write about the Windows 8 I’d like to see for this week’s Technologizer column over on TIME.com.)
Sinofsky will supposedly …
A new study published by Ad Age takes a look at the various ways new technologies—in particular, e-readers and tablets—influence the lives of the affluent, concluding that at the end of the day, additive technologies make life more complicated than not.
Assuming that “affluent” means households earning annual median incomes of …
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.”
That’s a direct shot at Apple’s iPad, though Cador didn’t specify a timeframe or explain how his company plans to take the top spot in …
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 …
In the game of Android tablets, Dell has two strikes against it.
Strike one was the original Dell Streak, a 5-inch tablet remarkable for its lack of identity. Was it an oversized phone, or a diminutive tablet? Dell’s press releases suggested the latter, but the only way to reduce the Streak’s shocking $550 price tag was to sign up for …
A coworker came by my desk late yesterday afternoon and, seeing that I had an iPad propped up next to my laptop, asked why we weren’t writing more posts here on Techland about how to use the iPad. Before I could say something like, “You see a square you like and you poke it with your finger,” he asked why I was using both an iPad and a …
Do you have several problems? Like, more than one, at least? Me too. Is one of those problems that your iPad doesn’t have enough storage capacity to hold all your videos, photos, documents and songs? I hadn’t thought of that problem myself until now, but I guess I have that problem too.
Seagate has announced a new portable hard
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Research In Motion has recalled a little over 900 of its new-ish 7-inch PlayBook tablets, citing a quirky installation of the operating system “that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up,” as reported by CrackBerry.com.
If yours is one of the unlucky handful of tablets then you may want
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By now, everyone assumes that Amazon is making an Android tablet, but that’s only part of the company’s Android plans, according to one rumor.
An unnamed source told Android and Me that Amazon will launch “an entire family” of Android devices this holiday season. Android and Me’s Taylor Wimberly said he confirmed the information with …
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Google’s massive I/O developer shindig in San Francisco. And then I wrote a Technologizer column for TIME.com on the first day’s keynote, which was jam-packed with Android news. But I could just have easily written a column about day two’s keynote, which was devoted to Google’s Chrome …
Jeff Bezos is toying with our emotions.
Speaking to Consumer Reports, the Amazon Chief Executive delicately suggested that there’s a tablet in the works. “Stay tuned,” Bezos said when asked directly whether Amazon is making a tablet.
But don’t call it a Kindle killer. Should Amazon launch a tablet, Bezos said, it would be …
Time for a confession: After more than a year of owning an iPad, I’ve started to look at 10-inch tablets with a bit of disdain. Sure, they’re great for video, and they allow for innovative big-screen apps, but they can be uncomfortable to hold and a pain to type on.
So in my endless search for a 7-inch alternative, ViewSonic’s …
