Amazon’s Kindle Fire has shipped between three and four million units, reports DigiTimes, for which the takeaway almost has to be: How’s your guesstimate margin of error a million units, one way or another?
Either way, OEM …
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While Siri Won’t Tell You Where to Get an Abortion, ‘These Are Not Intentional Omissions,’ Apple Says
Despite her many talents, Siri won’t help you if you want to get an abortion. This week women around the U.S. have been reporting that Apple’s new iPhone 4S digital assistant won’t locate abortion providers — but she will …
Finally, a Self-Tweeting Cat Bed Made from an Old Macintosh Computer
With the eSleeper, we’ve truly reached the pinnacle of human civilization. While gutting old electronics for conversion into pet beds isn’t a new phenomenon (remember the old iMac fishbowls?), the advent of Twitter alongside inexpensive do-it-yourself Arduino boards means that all gadgets turned pet sleepers must now inform the world …
Siri Is Pro-Life, Apple Blames a Glitch
If you ask Siri where to hide a body, the iPhone’s virtual assistant will happily oblige. But if you ask Siri where to get an abortion? No can do.
For the moment, Siri is pro-life, as Abortioneers and other blogs pointed out …
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Consumers Don’t Care About Windows Tablets? No Problem
Research firm Forrester has conducted a survey that supposedly reveals that consumer interest in Windows-based tablets–once quite high–is now tanking. Forrester is concluding that Microsoft has therefore missed the opportunity to compete strongly with the iPad, since the first serious Windows-based tablets won’t show up until …
Review: With Tablet S, I Worry About Sony
Sony’s Tablet S is an awkward device, but not because of its unusual wedge-shaped design. It is awkward because it catches Sony in the middle of a transition, from an iconic hardware maker to an Apple-like company that sells …
iPhone Tip: Get Home Screen Widgets for Quick Settings Tweaks [UPDATE]
The iPhone doesn’t do widgets, at least not officially. But thanks to developer Jeff Broderick, iPhone users can now add settings widgets to their home screens, providing shortcuts to airplane mode, brightness, Bluetooth and …
Up in Smoke: iPhone Glows Red on Plane, Melts
Where there’s smoke, there’s…if not exactly fire, how about a glowing red iPhone on an airplane? No really, someone’s iPhone apparently turned the color of molten rock (aka “lava”) and began venting “dense smoke” on an …
Droid 4 Launching Already? Here’s Why
Motorola and Verizon Wireless are reportedly about to release the Droid 4, less than five months after the launch of its predecessor.
The rumor comes from Droid Life, which posted some convincing leaked product shots and a …
The Great Tablet Debate: Fads or Here to Stay?
What is a tablet and who needs one anyway? Are tablets a fad and will they soon fade into irrelevance like Netbooks? Will tablets replace traditional PCs? Is there a tablet market or just an iPad market? I hear there and other …
Black Friday Tablet Deals: Wait in Line or Stay in Bed?
2011 was the year of tablet glut, as PC makers pushed heaps of iPad-like slates onto store shelves. Although many of these tablets were too expensive at launch, and not as refined as the iPad, Black Friday changes the equation. …