PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets Category - Page 8
iPhone & Find My iPhone App Help Catch Smartphone Thief Red-Handed in New York [Tech Savvy Policeman Catches iPhone Thief With Little Actual Smartphone Experience]
We’ve seen this story before: iPhone gets stolen, tech savvy person uses Apple’s Find My iPhone app to locate the device on the map and retrieve it, thief gets caught and iPhone is retrieved. Unfortunately not all stolen iPhones are found this way, as either some of the thieves out [...]
MWC 2012: New Samsung Galaxy Tab Version Coming at Barcelona Show? [Samsung Rumored to Launch Bigger Galaxy Tab 11.6 Android Tablet With 2GHz CPU on Board?]
Back in December we heard that Samsung would launch a bigger Galaxy Tab model at this year’s Mobile World Congress edition and today we have one more report that backs up those rumors.
The Top Seven Reasons Apple’s iBooks 2 Program Is A Winner (For Just About Everybody) [From Students To Teachers To Apple, We Go Over Seven Reasons Why Everyone--But Traditional Textbook Makers--Wins With iBooks 2]
Last week, we got our big introduction to iBooks 2, Apple’s newly revamped version of iBooks, and what kind of damage it was going to do to the textbook industry. And indeed, it wasn’t hard to see a whole lot of advantages to the iBooks approach on all levels; it [...]
Future iPad Models May Boast Programmable Magnetic Fluid To Let You Feel Keys [Haptic Feedback May Be Part Of Future iPads Following Newly-Emerged Apple Patent]
It’s always great to check out what Apple’s got going on in terms of patents, because you never know just which pieces of the impressive arsenal of intellectual property will be making their way to devices near us, and which of them will just be fun to dream about. And [...]
Future iOS Gear May Lose The 30-Pin Dock Connector [New Apple Patent For Programmable Magnetic Connectors May Yield Replacements For Long-Held 30-Pin Dock Connector, Others Besides]
Perhaps one of the greatest problems inherent in any mobile device, no matter how ruggedized, is the fact that they all have inherent weakness to water and dust. Sure, we’ve seen cases that do a pretty good job of providing rubberized flaps over headphone jacks and USB ports and the [...]
LG Optimus Pad Now Available For Free With Rogers [Rogers Drops The Price Of The LG Optimus Pad Tablet, Is Now Available For Free On A Three-Year Agreement]
Rogers originally released the LG Optimus Pad back in mid-May 2011. At the time the Android Honeycomb running tablet made its debut at $449.99 on a three-year agreement. And well, flashing forward till the present day and the current price is not even close. Of course, that is because Rogers [...]
Asus May Be Readying A Line Of Laptops With Kinect-Based Controls [Kinect Makes The Jump To Prototype Asus Laptops, According To Reports, Allows For Motion Control To Perform Several Possible Functions]
Microsoft’s Kinect system has done some impressive things for gaming in the past, but what’s really gotten a lot of folks’ attention were the hacks that followed. While originally Microsoft was against it, seeing what the Kinect could do in the other hands left them changing their viewpoint. And now, [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II LTE Smartphone & Galaxy Tab 10.1 Bundle Now Available From Future Shop [Future Shop Samsung Smartphone & Tablet Bundle Available Today, Get Both (On A Three-Year Agreement) For $249.99]
Rogers has been running a promotion that allowed you to get a free Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet if you purchased and activated two smartphones lines on your account. And well, while that offer seemed solid enough, it looks like a new Rogers bundle offer has come available by way of [...]
Wi-Fi Only Motorola XYBOARD Tablets Now Shipping [Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 & XYBOARD 10.1 Now Shipping Direct From Motorola In A Wi-Fi Only Model, Arrive Priced From $399.99 & $499.99 Respectively]
Motorola originally announced the XYBOARD tablets for the US market along with Verizon back in early December. We then saw the 8.2 and 10.1 inch models come available just a few days later. And well, while we understand that not everyone wants another cellular carrier bill — this latest is [...]
Google Maps Gets Public Alerts for Emergencies [Google Launched Public Alerts for Google Maps, Service Displays Existing Emergency Alerts Across the World]
Google has launched a new service for Google Maps, Google Public Alerts, which basically tells users what’s wrong with the world, at least from the weather point of views, although other major disasters such as flood warnings, eartquakes, fires or snowstorms will also be displayed.

