The latest attempt to sort through the clutter of available online news content is version 2.0 of News360, an app for the iPad, the iPhone, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone and Android devices, and the Web that uses semantic analysis to analyze users’ activity on social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and Evernote to select relevant news.
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BlackBerry PlayBook tablet owners now have access to content from more than 1,900 publications from 95 countries with the release of PressReader by NewspaperDirect.
Getting comfortable with a completely new (to you) computer platform always takes time and a bit of trial and error. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is about as new as it comes being built on top of QNX (a UNIX-like real-time operating system RIM bought last year) instead of BlackBerry’s own phone OS. To help new PlayBook users get comfortable, the Inside BlackBerry Help Blog has been publishing tips. The latest is:
Five BlackBerry PlayBook Browsing Tips and Tricks
The tips they offer in this post are:
1. Search using the Address Bar. Users of the Google Chrome browser will be familiar with this very handy feature that removes the distinction between directly typing a web address and searching for something on the web.
2. Add a shortcut to a specific website to the PlayBook’s Home Screen
3.a. Copy and paste text
3.b. Save, copy and view an image
4. Reveal and use the browser’s download button by swiping down from the top bezel when viewing a web page
5. Hide the browser’s address to provide more viewing space
The Inside BlackBerry Help Blog has tagged all of their PlayBook focused items. You can find other PlayBook tips and information on the blog at:
I have not used RIM’s new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, have no strong feeling about it, and wish it no ill. However, it really looks like it is getting reputation about have roadblock issues. First, from the start it was designed as a companion to the BlackBerry smartphones instead of a standalone device like other tablets. If you do not have a BlackBerry phone, the PlayBook will not provide calendar and messaging services. Second, AT&T is reportedly blocking the PlayBook from tethering to a BlackBerry phone as it was designed to do. This is presumably because AT&T wants to charge for the tethering service. The latest PlayBook blocking factor is no surprise: Hulu – the streaming video service.
Hulu Wasted Little Time to Block the PlayBook (BerryReview)
Hulu is a (generally) free video streaming service for commercial content to the desktop. However, if you want to watch it on an iPhone or iPad, you need to subscribe to their service (much the same as Netflix). Android users, however, have been shut out of both Netflix and Hulu. In January Hulu said it would soon provide service for Android users. But, that day has not come yet. So, perhaps, people who bought the PlayBook should not feel so bad. They can stand in line waiting for Hulu along with Android users.
