PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets Category - Page 30

Just yesterday we mentioned a new Siri project meant to bring the virtual assistant legally to the iPhone 4 and the iPod touch 4G, i4Siri, and now we hear that a public Siri port, which also happens to be a legal one, has been released via Cydia.

The home theater PC is one of those great concepts that never really, sadly, took off in a really wide fashion. And it likely won’t, especially considering how many televisions, DVD and Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes there are out there that offer the internet functionality you need in your [...]

Last week we saw proof that the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak works on A4-based iOS devices and then we heard that Pod2g completed the exploit and handed it over to the Chronic Dev Team to release it as he started work on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak.

It appears as if a hacking community is building behind the Kobo Vox. And coming as a result, it looks like the ereading tablet can now run the Android Market. But that being said, just because the Kobo Vox technically has access to the Android Market at this point — [...]

Just before Christmas we learned that Samsung was not going to be rolling-out any Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S smartphone or for the original 7 inch Galaxy Tab tablet. And well, at the time we noted that the story sounded rather similar to one involving HTC and Gingerbread.

Intel worked closely with Apple in developing the latest high-speed wired technology that supports data transfers for various applications. Earlier limited to Apple devices, the Thunderbolt interface will reportedly launch in PC desktop and notebook computers, too, by 2012.

Google has announced its latest Android smartphone and tablet operating system last October. But consumers are wondering why their smartphones and tablets are not yet getting Ice Cream Sandwich updates. This is said to be a result of mobile carriers’ and manufacturers’ business model, and even Android fragmentation itself.

Either because users don’t understand the differences between iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud – both iCloud features – or because Apple’s own cloud-based music features have direct competition from Google and Amazon, the Cupertino-based decided to better explain iTunes Match by setting up a webpage on its website [...]

Apple is rumored to launch the iPad 3 in time for Steve Jobs’ birthday, or February 24, but there’s no clear evidence to back up such reports. As always the company will not reveal any details about its upcoming iOS devices, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to see [...]

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been selling like hotcakes. Pretty soon, the tablet might also be selling like Ice Cream Sandwiches — that is, the latest Android 4.0 release, of course.