HP has sure as heck had a busy week. The Touchpad, not even two weeks old, has been taking a bit of a hit from reviewers for essentially not being a good enough response to the iPad2 (which makes sense, as it was a response to the original iPad). On Monday, the senior VP of […]
Every touchscreen smartphone user has experienced it by now: the sudden realization that it’s impossible to manually dial a number without looking at the display. Until now, the only sensory feedback we’ve been able to get from touchscreen-enabled devices (besides audio-visual) has been crude vibrations generated by small motors inside the units. Several companies are […]
Imagine clicking on a popular Tumblr blog and seeing your own face stare back at you. If you’d shopped at one of two NY Apple stores recently, it could happen. According to the Huffington Post, artist Kyle McDonald is under investigation for Fraud and related activity in connection with computers.’” Now, Mr. McDonald is arguing […]
I’ve got a magic wand! Seriously though, what an awesome device to have. Forgive my exuberance, but it’s rare that I get to review something that’s not just good, but has honestly made my life easier. The ScanSnap S1100 is a small, easily stored, portable scanner. It’s about the size of a six-cell laptop battery, […]
The concept of inductive charging has been around for a little while now. (The Palm Pre launched with such a feature, and battery manufacturers Duracell and Eveready offer their own inductive chargers to use with various electronic devices.) The goal, of course, is to eliminate extra wires and clutter. So, when the Wall Street Journal […]
Here’s a really interesting concept. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been the smash success they were hoping for, and MS in general has been losing the smartphone market share ever since iOS and Android have taken over. But Microsoft still owns many patents in smartphone technology. Remember when there were rumors of Microsoft suing HTC because […]
Click here to read Part I. Can a tablet be used to replace a netbook? As a regular netbook user (specifically an Acer Aspire One), my proposed experiment was to try and spend a week using a Viewsonic G-Tablet (chosen because it’s roughly the same price as the Acer) running Android instead . Now that […]
I love HP’s WebOS. I love the smooth multitasking, the great apps, the PIM solutions, the card metaphor, and pretty much everything else. It’s easy for me to talk for hours about how great the platform is and how it deserves wider attention. I can pontificate about having actual access to my filesystem and being […]
Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems. For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]
Mobile cloud music is a highly competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in mobile and music have entered the game. Even a few surprising entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, […]
