Next month Kobo will begin selling the Kobo eReader Touch for $129.99. It’s a new eBook reader with an E Ink display, much like Kobo’s existing offering. The difference is the new model will have a touchscreen, letting you navigate through eBooks with touch navigation rather than a directional pad. At just under $130, the […]
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Miro 4 offers cross-platform, open source iTunes alternative… when it works
The Participatory Culture Foundation has released Miro 4.0. While earlier versions of this open source media player were aimed at making it easier to find and download videos and watch internet video streams, Miro 4.0 aims to be a complete replacements for iTunes or Windows Media Player. It can handle audio and video podcasts, includes […]
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Amazon tablets could have quad-core chips, dual mode (color and monochrome) displays
Amazon execs haven’t officially come out and said that the company is working on an Android tablet. But there’s growing evidence that a line of Amazon tablets could launch later this year. CEO Jeff Bezos told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” for more details recently, which is pretty far from a denial. Last week Boy […]
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Hack enables the SD card slot on the Motorola XOOM WiFi with Android 3.1
Motorola XOOM users recently received a software update which brings Android 3.1 to their tablets. The software update offers better OpenGL graphics performance, an improved task switcher, and resizeable home screen widgets, among other things. But one thing it does not offer is a fix for the broken microSD card slot. Motorola has been selling […]
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Toshiba Tablet goes up for pre-order… again
I’d take this with a grain of salt for now, but it appears that J&R is taking pre-orders for Toshiba’s new Android tablet. The reason for the salt shaker? Because Newegg posted a pre-order page for the tablet last month before removing the listing. But if the new product page can be trusted, the tablet […]
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Asus posts teaser for a new tablet
Asus is set to introduce several new products at the Computex trade show in Taiwan beginning next week. In advance of that, Asus has begun posting teaser images and details on Facebook and at TechinStyle.tv. First up is an Asus tablet which Asus says has never been seen before. The company isn’t sharing many details. […]
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Overclocking the Asus Eee Pad Transformer with a custom kernel
We’ve already seen a number of Android tablets with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips hacked with custom software kernels which support overclocking. So it’s no surprise that the Asus Eee Pad Transformer can be overclocked. But it’s still nice to see it happen. Xda-developers forum member netarchy has posted a custom kernel for the Transformer which […]
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StreakDroid7 brings Google Android 3.1 to the Dell Streak 7
That certainly didn’t take long. Shortly after demonstrating that Google Android 3.1 could run on the Dell Streak 7, independent developer DJ-Steve has released StreakDroid7 HD v1.0 for anyone to install on the tablet. The software has a few quirks. For instance, if you let the Streak go to sleep while it isn’t plugged in, […]
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Google appears to be shipping Cr-48 Chrome OS laptops again
The first laptops running Google Chrome OS are scheduled to hit retail stores next month, but you may not have to wait until June to get your hands on a Chromebook. It appears that Google has resumed shipping free Cr-48 laptops to users who signed up to beta test the platform last year. The Cr-48 […]
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Xi3 ChromiumPC coming July 4th: Desktop PC running Google Chromium OS
Google has already suggested that Samsung would launch a low power desktop PC running Chrome OS in the not-too-distant future. But a company called Xi3 is going to try to beat Samsung to the punch with a low power desktop computer running the open source version of Chrome OS. The Xi3 ChromiumPC is due out on July […]