Toshiba’s new 10 inch Android tablet is apparently coming in January. The company had initially promised that the Toshiba AT200 would launch in some regions by the end of 2011, but according to a post on the Toshiba Germany Facebook page, the date has been moved back by a month or so. While Toshiba isn’t […]
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Toshiba Portege Z835 ultrabook priced at $799
Toshiba’s first ultrabook will debut in the US as a Best Buy exclusive. The electronics retailer will soon off the Toshiba Portege Z835 for $799. The Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 features a 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.3 GHz Intel Core i3-2367M processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB solid state disk. The […]
Amazon: Our tablet can run Netflix, Pandora too!
Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet will come pre-loaded with a number of media apps including Netflix and Hulu Plus for streaming videos, and Pandora for streaming music. But Amazon wants to make it clear that you can choose to download most of those apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet too… plus many others. The […]
Adobe ceasing development of Flash Player for mobile
Adobe’s Flash Player has been the de facto standard for online video and games for a number of years… but the plugin is losing ground as new web technologies including HTML5 become more common. Now ZDNet reports that Adobe is pulling the plug on Flash Player for mobile devices… which means we might not ever […]
Asus introduces the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, starting at $499
Asus is getting ready to release its follow-up to the popular Eee Pad Transformer tablet. The new Eee Pad Transformer Prime is thinner and lighter, offers better battery life, and faster performance than the original Transformer. It also has a sleek new design with a metallic finish that’s reminiscent of the Asus Zenbook line of high-end notebooks. […]
NVIDIA introduces the Tegra 3 multi-core processor for tablets, phones
NVIDIA has officially introduced its next-generation mobile processor. The NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip is a 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 multi-core processor with 4 high performance CPU cores, 1 extra low power “companion” core, and 12 graphics cores. The new chips are headed to tablets and smartphones. The first Tegra 3 device will be the Asus […]
HP: The fate of webOS remains unclear
HP called an all-staff meeting of the webOS team this afternoon to discuss the future of the mobile operating system. According to The Verge, CEO Meg Whitman told employees that she’s still not sure what to do with webOS, and that it’s more important to make the right decision than the fast one. That report […]
Japan’s Rakuten buys Kobo for $315 million
Electronic bookseller Kobo is about to be sold to Japanese internet service company Rakuten. The Japanese firm is going to buy all outstanding shares of the company for $315 million. Currently Canadian bookseller Indigo is the largest shareholder. Kobo’s digital book platform allows customers to purchased eBooks on a wide range of devices in a […]
Amazon’s latest Kindles will be available at 16,000 US retail stores
Amazon may have just given you one less reason to consider a NOOK Tablet or NOOK Simple Touch over a Kindle Fire or Kindle Touch. During yesterday’s launch event for the new NOOK Tablet, Barnes & Noble pointed out that you could walk into a bricks and mortar store to try out a NOOK before […]
Hard drive shortage could drive up PC prices
Flooding in Thailand is expected to lead to a shortage in hard drives, since some of the top manufacturers of hard drives and components are located in that country. The shortage could drive up the costs of hard drives temporarily — and some PC makers are already talking about raising computer prices as a result. […]