2 September 2010, 5:39 pm by: Warner Crocker
TweetWe’re seeing videos of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Toshiba Folio 100, the Viewsonic Viewpad, and other Tablets breaking out at IFA. And this is just the beginning of the “coming any day now Tablet/Slate tsunami” that is going t...
2 September 2010, 2:00 pm by: Warner Crocker
TweetTwitter Apps for the iPhone and the iPad fall into the category for me (and others) of try them all until you find what you like best. In the pre-iPad days, there seemed to be a different Twitter App released every week for the iPhone. I tried m...
2 September 2010, 1:39 pm by: Sumocat
TweetArs Technica reports that a plan to build a nationwide Wi-Fi network has been removed from consideration by the FCC. The decision drew protests by the plan’s promoter and cheers from wireless providers who were against the idea. Where do y...
2 September 2010, 12:51 pm by: Sumocat
TweetNot impressed with ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7? Maybe their 10-inch model, which dual-boots between Windows 7 and Android 1.6, will be more to your liking.
Good news first: the version of Windows running on the slate is indeed Windows 7, allevia...
2 September 2010, 11:58 am by: Xavier Lanier
TweetFor the past four years we’ve struggled to get my in-laws set up with video conferencing and media sharing. They live in a very small town in Pennsylvania, while three of their kids are in California and a fourth is in Illinois, which mean...
2 September 2010, 10:58 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetYesterday amidst Apple’s fall announcement of new stocking stuffers for music lovers, Steve Jobs announced the new social service for sharing music, called Ping. Aside from taking a term that many geeks and network administrators have used...
2 September 2010, 5:43 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetThe Toshiba Folio 100 tablet/slate is running on the Tegra 2 platform and is one of the devices that we’re anxious to hear more about. Roland from Netbooknews got his hands on one of the models at IFA and have put up a video tour of the de...
2 September 2010, 5:33 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetThe Galaxy Tab from Samsung has finally been officially unveiled. Yes, it is running Android 2.2, yes it is 7 inches, and yes, everything else we’ve been hearing about it is there including the fact that you can use it as a phone and it ru...
1 September 2010, 5:56 pm by: Xavier Lanier
TweetHP introduced some nice new products today, all of which I got to check out in person during a briefing in San Francisco. I got all excited when I saw a couple of Palm reps milling around the briefing suite at the St. Regis in downtown San Franc...
1 September 2010, 1:12 pm by: Xavier Lanier
TweetSprint announced today that Boston, Daytona Beach and Providence can now tap into its 4G network. This should boost sales of the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Epic 4G, and the Overdrive wireless hotspot in those areas. This is of course great news f...
1 September 2010, 12:28 pm by: Warner Crocker
TweetCall me tired, call me bored, or just call me. But I think Apple did its usual fall announcement focused on music and Christmas sales today and did it well. That said, there were no real surprises, but this is all about pushing dollars through t...
1 September 2010, 9:32 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetYou may be able to pre-order it today, but don’t count on mousing around with the now officially announced Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse until December. That’s right, Microsoft is officially announcing the Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse today...
1 September 2010, 8:36 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetThe ViewSonic ViewPad 7 is a tablet/slate that’s getting lots of attention at IFA this week. Johannes from NewGadgets.de got to go hands on with the device and has posted a video. From what we know the ViewPad 7 is running a 600 MHz Snapdr...
1 September 2010, 7:23 am by: Sumocat
TweetWhether you’re going back to school or back to whatever your normal life is, for the month of September, you can get $7 off your purchase of PDF Annotator, the ink-enabled PDF editing and creation tool from Grahl Software, and sign up to w...
1 September 2010, 7:06 am by: Sumocat
TweetWhatever Apple has in store for us at their event today, their broadcast of the event may be the big story in and of itself. Not only are they broadcasting video themselves, but they’re doing it via HTTP Live Streaming, a sign they think t...
1 September 2010, 5:26 am by: Xavier Lanier
TweetMotion Computing announced two new support programs designed to minimize downtime caused by faulty or damaged Tablet PCs. Many of Motion Computing’s customers work in rough environments and a downed Tablet PC can have a serious impact on t...
1 September 2010, 5:00 am by: Warner Crocker
TweetHP has unveiled its fall line up and they include the HP Mini 210 Netbook with a Dual Core. HP’s announcement shows that they are making improvements to the Envy line of notebooks, The Pavilion dm3, as well. Some are available now and some...
1 September 2010, 5:00 am by: GBM Staff
TweetLenovo is offering the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 for $879, including free shipping, after an instant $100 discount and a stackable $420 off coupon code. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 is a 15.6″ notebook powered by a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor,...
31 August 2010, 4:06 pm by: Sumocat
TweetNew HP subsidiary, Palm, released the developer beta of the 2.0 version of their smartphone operating system webOS. The release is focused on what developers can do with it, not what consumers can, but a lot of cool features were revealed.
First...
31 August 2010, 3:34 pm by: Sumocat
TweetGigaOM teammates Ryan Lawler of NewTeeVee and one Kevin C. Tofel of jkOnTheRun provide commentary and video showing off Kev’s Nexus One running Android 2.2 Froyo and Adobo Flash 10.1. Or at least trying to run Flash 10.1. The results are n...