Archive for September, 2010 - Page 10

In case you forgot that Apple and Nokia have sued each other in the USA for various alleged patent infringements, Apple decided to remind you about this open battle by suing Nokia, again, this time on British soil. The fight is getting more and more interesting and we can probably [...]

Few things in life freak me out quite so earnestly as the phrase “swarm of flying robots”. But that’s exactly what the folks out at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) have pulled off now.

Yesterday, RIM introduced their PlayBook tablet, to much positive response from the tech blog community. Rather than shoehorning the BlackBerry OS onto a touch-screen interface like they did with the Storm series, it’s running an all new PlayBook QNX operating system. If you were wondering if that new OS will [...]

Portrait of a disaster: digital music sales in the United States went up 28 percent in the period between 2007 and 2008, up 13 percent in 2008 to 2009, but saw no growth from 2009 to 2010. The boom times for digital music have reached their plateau…at least in the [...]

Blackberry’s coattails…now boarding! The folks out at Kno put out their own announcement of a single-screen tablet following the announcement of RIM’s PlayBook, but Kno is taking a slightly different tack with theirs: they’re calling it the “world’s first single screen tablet textbook”.

Panasonic has recently unveiled their latest in terms of portable computers. And while it has the display size of a netbook, it has other features that are more similar to that of a regular sized notebook. The model is the Panasonic Let’snote J9 and it appears to be heading to [...]

We saw the official announcement for the BlackBerry PlayBook yesterday during DEVCON 2010 and while the announcement of the PlayBook was exciting, there were also some other details worth mentioning — one of which comes by way of Kobo.

The latest in ultra-portable notebooks from Lenovo has recently been announced. The model is the ThinkPad Edge 11 and it comes sporting a variety of exterior lid colors as well as an 11.6 inch display and AMD processor. Not to mention, a seemingly fair price tag.

Australian wireless carrier Optus has officially announced the upcoming availability of the HTC Aria. The handset is expected to arrive sometime in mid-October, though a specific date has not yet been released. This news also comes as a nice little follow up to the other recent announcement from Optus, the [...]

The developer behind the Podcaster app for the iPhone and iPod touch has just rolled out another welcomed update. This update brings the app up to version 3.5 and includes some new features and the always nice to see bug fixes.