Archive for April, 2010 - Page 6

New Apple Multitouch Gesture Patent Granted

Additional Multitouch Gestures Set to Expanded Shortcuts for Touchscreens Such as Save As, Refresh, Restore & Print
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

What with Apple having already hit today’s postings on account of Steve Jobs offering up an pretty frank open letter clearly stating his position concerning Adobe Flash we continue with news that Apple have just been granted a new patent relating to additional mulittouch gestures that’ll offer a host of [...]

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Verizon Droid Incredible Quickly Sells Out With Verizon Wireless

Verizon's Online Inventory For Droid Incredible Smartphone Quickly Depleted
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

As Chris was kind enough to mention earlier this morning, the Droid Incredible went on sale with Verizon Wireless as of today and it is priced at $199.99 on a two year agreement. But not to derail the point of this post — Verizon has apparently sold out of the [...]

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iPhone, iPad & Flash Relationship Explained by Steve Jobs in Open Letter

Steve Jobs Shares His Take on Flash Support and Apple in Long Press Release; Flash Still Not Coming to iPad & iPhone
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

Remember that whole issue with Flash not being supported by the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad? That’s a big deal when talking about any of these products and apparently Apple’s main man knows exactly how much the web is talking about Apple’s and Adobe’s quarrel over Flash support.

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MSI GE600 16" Gaming Notebook Comes Available, Priced At $999.99

MSI GE600 Gaming Notebook To Feature 16" Display, ATI Radeon Graphics & Intel Core i5 CPU
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

MSI has recently added the latest model in their lineup of gaming notebooks. The model is the GE600 and it comes sporting a 16 inch display with a 1366 x 768 resolution. Diving right in, the GE600 is priced at $999.99 direct with MSI. Though if interested you can save [...]

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Bungie, Activision Sign Publishing Deal

Activision To Publish Bungie Games For The Next 10 Years On "Multiple Platforms"
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

Bungie, the video game developer behind the popular Halo series of games (among others), just announced a 10 year publishing deal that will see them leave their familiar publishing relationship with Microsoft. Acitivison, was already one of the largest game publishers in the world and this is definitely a huge [...]

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Google I/O Conference Schedule Posted

Google Posts I/O Conference Details, Expect To Hear About Android, Chrome, Geo, Social Web, Wave & Maybe Android 2.2 Froyo
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

Google has recently posted the event schedule for the 2010 Google I/O developer conference. And while this conference is aimed at developers, in the past there has been some interesting information come available because of it, and for that reason its worth mentioning and paying attention to.

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Asus Eee PC 1218 Netbook Images Show All-Aluminum Exterior Casing

Eee PC 1218 Netbook Revealed, Will Feature 12" Display & Retractable Webcam With All Ports On The Rear
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

A few images of the Asus Eee PC 1218 have recently surfaced online, and they are showing off a fairly unique Eee. To begin with, lets get the disappointment out of the way — most of the specs remain a mystery. That said though, the bits we do have so [...]

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Verizon Droid Incredible by HTC Available in Stores Today

Verzion Starts Selling the HTC Droid Incredible Today for $199 after Rebates & With New Contract
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

I am sure that U.S.-based Android lovers already know that the HTC Droid Incredible starts selling today in Verizon stores but Big Red made sure we all remembered about it by popping in another press release to announce it.

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Bono Lost Money On Palm-HP Sale

Irish Rocker's Firm Lost An Estimated $200 Million On HP's Purchase Of Palm
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

This is very borderline not tech news, but since a lot of websites are praising HP’s purchase of Palm, there’s one person out there who probably isn’t keen on the deal and that’s U2 frontman Bono. Bono co-founded Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that invested heavily in Palm at [...]

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Amazon Kindle Firmware 2.5 Update Announced With A Bunch Of New Features

Kindle 2.5 Update Will Include Folders, Social Network Integration, PDF Zoom And Pan, Password Protection
By on Thursday, 29. April 2010

This morning Amazon has announced the latest 2.5 software update for Kindle and Kindle DX will be coming soon in May 2010. One of the highlights of this update is the integration of social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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