Posts Tagged ‘Tablet’

It is fairly obvious that the main reason why Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire tablet is to sell more video, music, and books from their store, so it would be understandable if they opted to not make competing content provider apps available for the Fire. Today Amazon showed they resisted that knee-jerk reaction by [...]

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Barnes & Noble introduced their new Nook Tablet yesterday, announcing that it not only features a 1GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal storage with the option to add 32GB of extra storage, 1GB of RAM, and a 7-inch 1024 x 600 display, but will also come with Netflix pre-installed, along with other media apps including Hulu, Pandora, MOG and Rhapsody.

Flipboard on the iPad might be the most useful news aggregation tools because of its curation mix of conventional (editors at news and blog sites) and personal (people you friend and follow at Facebook and Twitter). Flipboard takes links and content from Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds to create a magazine-like view that lets you [...]

Google Docs has not been particularly friendly to smartphones and tablets. However, Google has been making steady progress in removing that reputation. Unlike other recent mobile announcements which were web based, this Google Docs enhancement is an update for an Android app that takes advantage of the larger display of Android Honeycomb tablets.

Adobe hit a home run with its free drawing utility launched along with the original iPad in April 2010. However, it did not see to do much beyond release utility type apps for the iPad since then. It looks like this is about to change. Adobe announced, but has not yet released, a set of [...]

Despite the widely accepted public knowledge before the big reveal today (including pre-announcement photos on TechCrunch), Amazon managed to pull of a Steve Jobs type “one more thing” this morning by announcing not just one but four new Kindle models and a new web browser that uses its own considerable cloud services.

Microsoft is betting not one but two farms on Windows 8. It was made available to the public in a preview release this week as part of activity for the Microsoft Build conference for hardware and software developers. Microsoft Reimagines Windows, Presents Windows 8 Developer Preview It is naturally expected that Microsoft update its Windows [...]

Newspapers and magazines have been trying to find a winning formula for publishing on the iPad and, to a lesser degree, other tablet platforms. The publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com is pursuing a slightly different strategy. The have teamed with a tablet manufacturer to deliver a low-priced tablet to deliver [...]

The Evernote for Android 3.2 update brings a feature that can’t be deployed on the iPhone version yet: Add graphical annotation to a note using Skitch for Android.

Tumblr, the high flying free micro-blogging service, recently issued a minor update to their Android app. While the bug fixes are important to people experiencing problems with the app, the bigger news is at the end of the blog items announcing the release that provides a near future road map for the app.