Apple design expert calls Samsung a copycat
Industrial designer Peter Bressler. (Credit: University of Pennsylvania ) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple is once again turning to designers to help make its case that Samsung lifted its smartphone and tablet designs, this time going to a company outsider to prove its point. In testimony today, Peter Bressler — a former president of the [...]
RIM Announces 4G LTE PlayBook Tablet
RIM is launching a 4G LTE version of its 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Despite all the uncertainty regarding Research In Motion and its immediate future, the BlackBerry company seems intent on proving that it’s business as usual. While anxious customers are waiting for the release of BlackBerry 10 devices in 1Q13, RIM in the meantime [...]
3M, Polaris Partnership Strengthens Public Libraries
3M’s Tom Mercer unveiling the dedicated library ereader. GoodeReader reported this week on the announcement of new features from 3M Cloud Library Systems and Polaris. This venture is aimed at streamlining the work of public libraries for greater efficiency and ease of use for both the librarians and their readers. I an interview with 3M’s [...]
You can now use your Kindle e-Reader as a Second Monitor
Looking to expand the surface area of your desk and don’t want to invest in a new monitor? We have a new solution for you that allows you to use your Amazon Kindle as a second screen to do your daily tasks. Both the six inch Kindle and the Kindle DX both work with this [...]
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 [...]
Wacom Launches Cintiq 24HD Touch Pen Display
If you’re into drawing, editing, work with graphics and such tasks, you’re probably a Wacom fan. The company just announced the new 24HD pen display, also dubbed the 24HD Touch, that offers multitouch functionality to the company’s 24 inch input device. Among the new features we find an improved display that shows 1.07 billion colors, [...]
Bill Gates Loves the Surface Tablet, Says that Apple May Have to Come Up With Something Similar
In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates revealed that he’s very excited with the Microsoft Surface tablet and he’s convinced that Apple will have to answer this hybrid with a similar product. Gates described the process of creation of Microsoft as “a fanatical work”, something specific for his 20s and 30s. Now in [...]
How to decide: should you buy an iPad or wait for the Microsoft …
I have to admit, I didn’t expect this to be a question. The iPad is here, now, and we all know what it is in excruciating detail. On the other hand, the Microsoft Surface tablets are neither here, nor do we know much about them. We don’t know price, availability date, or even how long [...]
Intel: 20 Windows 8 Tablets to Use Atom "Clovertrail" System-on-Chip. – X
Intel Corp. this week said that it has twenty Microsoft Windows 8-powered tablet design wins with its Atom “Clovertail” system-on-chip (SoC). The devices will come from different manufacturers and will be made in different form-factors. Intel hopes that the tablet market will flourish with Windows 8 since tablet users will be able to use traditional [...]
Cisco Cius Tablet Kicks the Bucket
Cisco had a short lived attempt at getting into tablets, but that didn’t work out so well. They launched the Cisco Cius slate a while ago and now it appears that the product is dead, much like the HP TouchPad last year. The product was meant to appeal to the enterprise segment, but in the [...]
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