Yesterday, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a 56-page decision, denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the federal antitrust complaint filed against it, which alleged that Apple spearheaded a conspiracy among e-book publishers to fix e-book prices by introducing “agency pricing” where the publisher, not the […]
It’s been a month since the popular news reader app Read It Later was rebuilt and rebranded as Pocket. The app is also now free with the change, so if you’ve been staying away from Read It Later because of the $2.99 price tag, now’s your chance. I’ve been using it for a few weeks […]
When Toshiba first announced the Thrive tablet, it was critiqued for being too large. While a slimmed down model was seen at Mobile World Congress, it looks like Toshiba is still keeping it plus sized. The 7.7″ Toshiba tablet from MWC has turned out to not be a Thrive, but an Excite, and it has […]
We all know tablets are huge these days. Everyone wants to third screen in, but the big barrier is, as always, the cost. Sure, tablets aren’t that expensive. Even if you can’t afford a $500 iPad, a $200 Kindle Fire is usually within reach. But that’s not the only cost customers are facing. Unfortunately, the […]
Remember Steve Jobs’s “third screen” conceptualization of a tablet? In a nutshell, the idea is that the average user goes from their first screen, a desktop or laptop, to their second screen, a smartphone. Jobs had the idea of a tablet as a third screen, and as we’ve seen from Apple’s sales, he was right […]
Some people have accused this blog of being a bit unfair to RIM. This could not be further from the truth. I write about the makers of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry because I want to see them return to greatness, and I hate seeing them make obvious missteps. Having sat through the death of Palm, I […]
Harry Potter — the series Americans, Brits, and the world alike have been enamored with for the past 14 years — is finally available in ebook form on J.K Rowling’s own Pottermore website. At times, it seemed as if the Harry Potter books were as much in the past as the wizards and witches in […]
Our Reuven Shechter may like his new iPad, but Australian consumer watchdog Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) cried foul yesterday over Apple’s claim of 4G compatibility. It turns out that the iPad isn’t compatible with Australia’s 4G network at all. From the Australian Broadcasting Company: Lawyers for the ACCC accused Apple of breaching consumer law […]
Reviewing a tablet as iconic as the iPad is a challenge no one wants to take on, especially not a recently converted Apple hater. Regardless, I will do my best to impartially and fairly review this beautiful and polarizing piece of hardware that screams Apple out of every orifice. Okay, so it may not be […]
Purchasers of Apple’s latest revision of the iPad report many issues using them with various covers and cases on the market. Even some of Apple’s own smart covers aren’t immune. According to their support forums, Apple modified the design specification of their smart covers some time in 2011, changing the model numbers at the same […]
