iPad competitors lining up | Circuit Breaker – CNET News
Apple’s iPad may finally have some competition. With the gadget, Apple started the craze for building devices that are smaller than notebooks and bigger than standard smartphones, feature touch-screen interfaces, and enable people to browse the Web and download apps. And the iPad took off quicker than most people anticipated, selling 3 million units in [...]
VIDEO: Live from Apple’s 2010 iPod, Apple TV Event
PC Magazine Reviews | September 01, 2010 PCMag.com Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff gives the highlights and some up-close looks at the newest products and services, including the new Nano, iPod Touch, iOS 4.2, Itunes 10, Ping and Apple TV. Plus, we’ve got a little glimpse of Cold Play’s Chris Martin serenading the crowd. Read more about [...]
LG Announces LG Optimus Pad at Dealer Days in Brussels | Netbooknews
We already knew that LG was coming out with their Optimus lineup of Smartphones but what we didn’t realize was being launched along side them was the Optimus Pad. The guys over at Multimediawereld.be were at the Dealer Days LG 2010 where LG announced the tablet that is meant to compete directly with Apple’s iPAd [...]
Rivals to Apple’s iPad ready to take the stage
Big-name manufacturers will unveil their answers to the iPad this week as Apple is due to launch a raft of new products. Samsung and Toshiba are expected to lead a tablet charge at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin on Thursday, hours after a San Francisco media event where an annual update of Apple’s [...]
Run Flash on the iPhone with Frash
The latest release of a new tool for jailbroken iPhones, iPods and iPads makes it possible for them to run Flash, despite Steve Jobs’ vow to keep it off the devices. The wall around Apple’s software garden is heading the same way as the Berlin Wall. After the U.S. government took down the razor wire [...]
AppleInsider | Another rumor pegs Verizon iPhone 4 for January 2011 release
Yet another rumor has suggested that Apple will release a Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhone 4 in January of 2011, citing industry sources who claim the company has ordered millions of chips for production starting in December. TechCrunch reported Sunday that Apple is planning to begin production of a Verizon iPhone in December, citing informants in the [...]
Report: RIM Readying BlackBerry Tablet | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
In wake of Apple’s surprising runaway success with the iPad, a number of companies are said to be scrambling to bring their own slate tablets to market. Case in point? RIM, with a rumored “Blackpad” tablet. HP, which unveiled a tablet prototype at CES in January, reportedly killed, then resuscitated its Windows 7 Slate, but [...]
Apple upgrades Safari, adds extensions from Twitter, Amazon, others – San Jose Mercury News
Apple today rolled out an upgraded version of its Safari Web browser, adding a site to download extensions from Amazon.com, Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Twitter and other developers. Third-party software writers can use Internet tools such as HTML5 and JavaScript to create add-on features for the browser. Safari users can download the extensions from the [...]
HTC To Sell Smartphones Under Its Own Brand in China – WSJ.com
HTC Corp. introduced four smartphone models in China under its own name on Tuesday, as the Taiwanese company extends its brand into China amid intensifying competition with Apple Inc. and other rivals. The new phones will include two touch-screen models designed exclusively for China Mobile Ltd., the nation’s largest mobile operator with some 554 million [...]
