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Android 4.3 Release Leaked Early

Justin Davis — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:44:46 +0000

Today’s keynote address at the first day of Google I/O 2013 may lack a few surprises considering the amount of news leaking out early. One such example is the release of Android 4.3, which The Verge found by digging through the search listings on Google’s developer website. Not much is known about Android 4.3 (Jelly [...]

Microsoft Tablet Market Share Multitasks By Increasing While Disappointing

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:15:23 +0000

Microsoft has found itself in an interesting situation by going from having a zero percent market share in tablets to having a 7.5 percent share, according to market research analyst company Strategy Analytics. That sounds wonderful, until you see that Apple maintained a previous percentage of 48 percent and Android’s numbers depend on if you count only [...]

Playing The Shellhead Game With Iron Man 3

Tim Twelves — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:10:21 +0000

Coming soon is the new Disney-Marvel Iron Man 3 movie. Also coming soon is a tie-in game from Gameloft. Here are the first two trailers for the game. Become billionaire Tony Stark as Iron Man in this fast paced endless runner and fight the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding. [...]

Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 — Big Name, Big Tablet

Ari Baronofsky — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:05:06 +0000

Call me a Luddite, but despite the ubiquity of tablet computing over the last few years, I don’t always get the point of them. Tablets are often too big to replace a smartphone and don’t always have the processing power of a laptop or desktop. If I want to listen to music, a smaller device [...]

SXSW 2013: The Highlights

Justin Davis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:00:03 +0000

South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end [...]

ePad Femme, Because Tablets Were Too Manly

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:53:42 +0000

ArsTechnica has brought back up the favorite topic of tech and gender roles due to the Eurostar ePad Femme, an Android tablet marketed to women. This tablet has been out since October, was promoted circa Valentine’s Day, and is for some reason, just now causing a media firestorm. The Femme is a fairly unremarkable [...]

SXSW: Mike North From Nukotoys On Trading Cards, The iPad, And Outmaneuvering The Big Guys

Ben Masten — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:10:03 +0000

Dr. Mike North likes building stuff. A lot. At the start of his Sunday morning SXSW panel, North showed video of a trip to Lithuania, where he and a bunch of other engineers decided to build a snowbike by replacing the front wheel of a bicycle with a small pair of skis. North showed footage [...]

Review: Half The Sky Game Opens New Donation Possibilities Through Facebook

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:30:27 +0000

There’s a new game in town. The Half The Sky Movement, which works to create opportunities for women around the world, has rolled out a new Facebook game with a charitable purpose. Half The Sky Movement: The Game allows players to follow an Indian woman named Radhika on her journey through her village and then around [...]

On The Cheap: Google Play Gives You Gifts For Its First Birthday

Justin Davis — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:03:04 +0000

Today marks the first birthday of Google Play (even though it’s been around as Android Market since 2008) and the company is celebrating by offering you major discounts (i.e. free for many choices) on some of its most popular games, apps, books, books, TV shows, and movies offered through the store. Here’s a short list [...]

HP Gets Back In Tablet Game With Slate 7

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:45:49 +0000

I’ve always rather admired HP’s Slate tablets. Traditionally aimed at the enterprise market, these were full Windows tablets. Despite being saddled with an operating system that wasn’t touch-intuitive, HP lavished the industrial design on the Slate line that the lamented TouchPad lacked. While consumer tablet production halted a year and a half ago, HP made [...]