Archive for April, 2010 - Page 10

Most of you might remember the Linux tablet JooJoo, it also went by the name of CrunchPad. Today the 12-inch tablet finally arrives in the UK, hoping that the market in Europe would respond much better than the extremely low sales performance in the US.

One of the things that we still didn’t know about the next-gen iPhone is when and where it will be released. Apple corrected all that today as the Cupertino-based company announced the official dates for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 10) which is probably the place where the new iPhone [...]

This comes as a total surprise, folks! It seems that Microsoft likes Android phones so much that it’s willing to let HTC use some of its patents in exchange for a huge chunk of change, or course. Redmond has officially announced the move today in a detailed press release and [...]

Portuguese wireless carrier TMN has come up with the world’s first SIM card made out of recycled paper. It’s currently only compatible with the Samsung Blue Earth handset. Yes, that’s the eco-friendly mobile phone with a futuristic solar panel slapped on the back.

Between smartphones, e-mail and a new environmental focus we have these days, printing definitely seems like it’s on the way of the floppy disc – but John Williams, CEO of Domtar (a “Sustainable Paper Company”) is telling folks that it’s ok to print pages of stuff, and he says even [...]

A Samsung executive who wants to remain anonymous recently told the Korea Herald that the company is “considering Google TVs.” A few weeks ago, Samsung initially declined to work on the project, claiming they wanted to develop their own range of Internet-connected TVs.

File this one in the ‘rumor mill’ section, but website Fudzilla has a few sources within NVIDIA’s manufacturing partners and they’re reporting that NVIDIA is going to announce and detail a new mid-range GeForce GTX 460 card at Computex in Taiwan this June. The GTX 400 series just launched in [...]

It didn’t get as much attention as the Israeli iPad ban, but South Korea too had banned the popular web tablet from entering the country. The Korean ban doesn’t look to be as strict as Israel (the Israelis were confiscating them at the airport) but nevertheless, the ban was lifted [...]

What happens when a mobile carrier gives away the best Android phone out right now for free with a two year contract? Well, people want it – badly. Vodafone UK started offering the Nexus One yesterday for free with the aforementioned two-year contract – and now, they’ve run out of [...]

Facebook has, of course, suffered from privacy issues before – such as temporarily revealing private email addresses – and now its facing another as uncovered by web developer Ka-Ping Yee, who works as a software engineer for the charitable arm of Google, who’s discovered that Facebook’s new API – and [...]