ICE X Electronics Launches New ICE Xtreme 7 Tablet Priced At ₹6,999
ICE X Electronics is the newest company to launch a budget tablet in India. Named ICE Xtreme, the tablet presents a 7 inch display with a rather low screen resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The Android 4.0 ICS tablet is powered by an Allwinner A10 processor that can be clocked to 1.5 GHz with [...]
Lenovo’s first Windows 8 Pro tablet set for October release
Lenovo Announces New ThinkPad Tablet 2 for Windows 8 Debuts premier table built for professionals and designed for life RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – AUGUST 9, 2012: Lenovo today unveiled its first tablet specifically designed for Windows 8, the ThinkPad Tablet 2. The multi-use tablet boasts differentiators that matter, including an optional digitizer and pen [...]
A New Patent for Contextual Ads Created by Microsoft
Microsoft and Barnes and Noble recently came to terms on a new way to distribute the companies eBooks on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. This will drastically increased the footprint of BN digital titles, which remain USA only. Microsoft may have found a new way to offer eBooks at a cheaper rate with a [...]
Self-Pubbed Authors Make a Showing on NYT Bestseller List
Does anyone still remember the arguments from only a year or so ago, the ones where critics said that digital publishing was going to destroy the book industry or where fans of ebooks promised it would be the death of paper books? Or the literary agents and publishers who firmly held the doors shut in [...]
Smashwords Contributes Four Authors to the New York Times Bestseller List
Self-Publishing juggernaut Smashwords is one of the largest companies of its kind to sell and distribute eBooks to all of the major online stores. They have one of the farthest reaches out of all the companies who specialize in publishing indie authors. Smashwords announced that four of their authors have reached the New York Times [...]
Stephen King to Release New eBook Short
Author Stephen King has announced he will be releasing a new digital-first title entitled A Face in the Crowd, for which he will once again partner with author Stewart O’Nan. The two worked together on a previous project about the Boston Red Sox. This isn’t King’s first straight-to-digital release and he is certainly not the [...]
Public Domain eBooks Get a New Lease on Life via Amazon
Amazon has just implemented a new feature that assigns new ASIN numbers to thousands of public domain eBooks. This makes the books harder to find and invalidates their old listing data on major search engines. That means that the works, no matter how popular the free book was, it got pushed down in Amazon searches [...]
Apple iPad Mini to Launch This Year, Being Priced at an Affordable Rate
The folks of New York Times have it on good authority that the iPad Mini is real, but we already knew that from several other official sources. They’re reporting yet again that this will be a 7.85 inch slate and, priced much less than the current iPad. Apple is supposed to have been prototyping a [...]
New Durable Tablet Case Designed to Protect I Pad and Other Tablets When … – Virtual
Wilderness Tactical Products, LLC introduces the toughest tablet carrier on the market with new My Pad Tablet Carrier Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) July 16, 2012 “Just because you enjoy the outdoors, doesn’t mean you can’t take your tech with you.” These were the sentiments of Wilderness founder, Ralph Holzhaus when introducing the new My Pad Carrier. [...]
HTC Working on ‘Unique’ New Tablet [REPORT]
Most peoples’ lists of tob tablet competitors doesn’t include Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC — the company unsuccessfully tried to enter the tablet market in May of 2011 with the HTC Flyer, but it was widely considered a flop and production was canceled before the end of the year. Another HTC tablet, the Jetstream, also failed [...]
New tablet, futuristic glasses at Google show
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new tablet, new glasses and a new version of Android — those were among the highlights at Google Inc.’s annual “I/O” conference in San Francisco for computer programmers. Here’s a rundown of the announcements: — NEW TABLET: Google will start selling a small tablet computer next month in a direct [...]
Evolio Evotab 3 Preview – New Mystery Romanian Tablet, With Android 4.0.3 on Board (Video)
You probably know that we’ve reviewed some interesting and cheap East European tablets, such as the Evolio Evotab 2, that went for $160. Well, now Evolio, from Romania sent us another interesting device, a mysterious tablet that doesn’t even have an official name, but it’s most likely the Evotab 3. This model runs the latest [...]
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