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The Google Chrome OS tablet
The Google tablet rumour continues to grow. DownloadSquad reported from an unspecified source that Google with the help of HTC is readying a Chrome OS tablet for release on November 26th, this year’s Black Friday, the busiest shopping day in the U.S. The carrier will be Verizon. There is no price data but DownloadSquad did... »
Speech Features in Windows Phone 7 – report & video
Science fiction devotees know that science fiction writers have the uncanny ability to foretell the future. For example, the popular TV series (and movies), Star Trek, showed doors that promptly opened whenever people approached. Motion sensing equipped doors are now so common that we’ve accepted it as a part of our daily life. Microsoft plans... »
Defending iPhone 4, Apple attacks
Last week Apple Inc. updated its smartphones “death grip” Hall of Shame by adding the Motorola Droid X. However, neither Engadget nor PC Magazine had any success in duplicating the results shown in the Apple video. This leads PC Magazine to declare Apple’s Droid X claim as bogus. PC Magazine had released its own... »
Free WiFi access and digital content coming to Starbucks
Coming to a Starbucks near you (in the United States) on July 1 will be free WiFi access through AT&T in all its company-operated U.S. coffeehouses (about 6,700 locations). Hopefully, this perk will come to Canada. Word is that Starbucks is working with Bell to bring this free wireless Internet to its Canadian locations. Starbucks... »
Adobe Blows Apple a Kiss – with an AP video report
Adobe loves Apple. Adobe’s latest ad campaign is countering Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ recent jab at Flash technology for Web video and games. Software company Adobe Systems Inc., known for its photo-editing, PDF and multimedia products, has been fighting with Apple Inc. Apple has banned Adobe’s Flash format from Apple’s mobile devices, the iPhone,... »
The early iPad challengers
Rumours and speculation started to circulate almost immediately after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad that other computer manufacturers will challenge the iPad with similar products. News of two such devices were reported in less than a month after Apple launched its latest consumer device. Dell was the first competitor off the block when two iterations... »

