The BlackBerry PlayBook has made a respectable showing in the tablet market so far. RIM isn’t blowing through PlayBook inventory like iPad 2s, but with more than half a million shipped and strong sales posted in some corners of the globe, things are looking pretty rosy for the Waterloo company. Next month, the PlayBook is […]
Lee Mathews
Computer tech, blogger, husband, father, and avid MSI U100 user.
X10 Airpad wants to be the best tablet under $199
It’s no $99 HP TouchPad, but X10 thinks its brand new AirPad is the best tablet you can buy for less than $200. X10 is better known for its home automation and surveillance equipment, but the tablet market is still a bit like a frontier town — and anyone willing to stroll into town with […]
HTC Puccini tablet caught on camera surfing AT&T LTE
Since the HTC Puccini checked in at the FCC earlier this month, bits and pieces have been leaking out about the 10″ successor to the HTC Flyer. We’d heard it would ship with a 1.5GHz dual core processor, a 1280×800 pixel display, and Android 3.0.1. That, of course, would make it HTC’s first Honeycomb tablet. On […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer update adds Netflix support
The Netflix app is already available for a number of Android smartphones and tablets, but there are a few notable exceptions. For example, one of the platform’s most popular tablets — the Asus Eee Pad Transformer — had yet to receive an invite to the streaming video party. That’s all changed now, however, as Android Central […]
Marvell set to shake up the mobile processor world?
While Marvell does offer application processors, its current offerings aren’t as powerful (or common) as chips from competitors Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or Texas Instruments. According to information uncovered by SemiAccurate, however, it looks as though Marvell may be about to make a significant leap forward from the ARM v6/7 chips it currently produces. Sources indicate that […]
Isostick is a USB flash drive your computer thinks is an optical drive
At first blush, the idea of the Isostick might not seem that amazing. In simplest terms, it’s a USB flash drive that your computer detects as an optical drive. But who needs something like that? Nowadays, just about every computer on the market can boot to a USB device, be it a flash drive or […]
Ubuntu One ups free cloud storage to 5GB, hits 1 million users
Ubuntu One provides cloud storage and synchronization to users and is tightly integrated with the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. It allows users to store profile information and files online, and access them across different computers, operating systems, and mobile devices. Though it’s still fairly nascent, the service has enjoyed a good deal of success […]
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 launching July 20, press images leak
We already knew the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet would be launching soon, but up until now we didn’t know just how soon. After all, it’s been reported as having shown up at various retail sites around the web. However, according to a press conference held today in Japan the tablet will be launching globally tomorrow, July […]
Windows 8 will run on today’s computers, no hardware upgrades required
After that whole Vista mess, Microsoft learned a valuable lesson about hardware requirements and its operating systems. First, it’s a terrible idea to let your OEM partners ship systems that are barely capable of running the new OS you’re asking them to install on them. Second, if you can deliver a new OS that runs […]
Panelize turns any website into a Chrome OS Panel
One of the slicker features in Google’s Chrome OS is referred to as Panels. They’re the pop-in panes you see in some Chrome OS screenshots for things like the file browser, download shelf, and Google Talk. Those native features are pretty slick in panel form, but wouldn’t it be cool if you put your favorite web […]