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With advancements in functionality and design, LG hopes this plastic, and bendable, EPD will revolutionize the E-Book market. The world’s first plastic EPD from LG Display offers users a paper-like reading experience with a plastic substrate that is as slim as cell phone protection film, and a flexible design that allows bending at a range [...]
What a quarter for HP! After the horrible sales of its WebOS tablet and phones, HP announced they would refrain supporting WebOS, which we assumed meant no more tablets and admitted defeat to Apple’s Ipad. HP also surprisingly announced a possible spin-off of their computer division despite being the leader in PC sales. This combined [...]
A while back, I wrote an article begging other entrepreneurs to check any company website(s) on the Ipad and other tablets. More clearly, I’m asking fellow businessmen and women not to treat tablet customers like mobile customers. Just because the tablet is more mobile than say….a desktop….doesn’t mean the experience is the same as a [...]
That’s what the tech blogosphere expects to happen, including Mashable and Techcrunch, on Wednesday at an Amazon press conference. The maker of the world’s most popular e-book reader is rumored to be announcing a color, touch-screen tablet device called the “Kindle Fire,” according to the blog TechCrunch, which claims to have seen the gadget and [...]
Hewlett-Packard Co. may spin off its personal computer business – the world’s largest – as well as continue to reconfigure itself as a corporate technology provider by acquiring the British software firm Autonomy Corp. This is not surprising since the PC business is slowing down, but the company also said it would discontinue production of [...]
Tons of interesting news concerning tablets and smartphones hit this week. Their impact, especially tablets and e-readers, affect print in many ways – some in very scary ways. 1. Samsung talking smack to Apple in new videos? Although the ads don’t specifically name the Apple Ipad as the faulty tablet, Samsung has launched new commercials [...]
HTC had an incredible month in May 2011 with sales reaching 1.42 billion which is more than double May 2010 sales for the company. We just learned that HTC recently released a new tablet, the Android-based Flyer. Here are some things HTC boasts about the Flyer. Sync your ink Capturing ideas is great. Being able [...]
COMPUTEX TAIPEI has become the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world, next to CeBIT in Germany. Each year, key global businesses come to this event to launch their new products. Since a large portion of the businesses in the world have research and deployment centers or production facilities in [...]
Sony announced its own line of tablets that will run on Android 3 Honeycomb. The first is the Qriocity-focused 9.4-inch S1 media tablet with both front- and rear-facing cameras and a curved wrap design that resembles a folded magazine. The S1 features a Tegra 2 SoC and customized “Quick and Smooth” touch panel UI with [...]
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the global leader in Android mobile devices, announced two new additions to its family of GALAXY Tabs, the GALAXY Tab 10.1 and GALAXY Tab 8.9, the world’s thinnest mobile tablets, measuring just 8.6 millimeters. Will Samsung make a dent in the tablet market by offering more sizes? To me, its just [...]
When the long-anticipated BlackBerry tablet hits the U.S. and Canada April 19, Research in Motion (RIM) has a surprise up its sleeve: The Blackberry Playbook supports Android apps. The company announced today that in addition to its new native SDK, the BlackBerry PlayBook will support apps written for Android 2.3 and BlackBerry Java. RIM also [...]
Wow, I was excited about the release of the next generation Ipad, but I had no idea how huge this would be. Despite some minor technical improvements, the Ipad is still 66% faster and 33% thinner than the original. Thats pretty amazing. Is it that fancy new magnetic cover that has us all revved up? [...]
Many publishers are simply dazed and confused when it comes to employing mobile and tablet based versions of their publications. The problem is, they have to invest in expensive app development and follow rules dictated by Apple and Google, but OnSwipe may be the dark knight rising. Apple also requires all app developers to share [...]
HP is making a big move by breaking into the tablet market. They’re also launching two new smartphones, which the tablet plays nicely with. The HP TouchPad is expected to arrive this summer. We know many apps will be available for the TouchPad including one for Kindle. HP boasts a breakthrough interface featuring a spacious [...]
Its all over CNN and HLN this morning that an Ipad 2 is in the works and will be faster, thinner and just straight up better. It was no secret that Apple was working on the new Ipad and its great timing in a likely effort to draw away attention from the many new tablets [...]
Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company has sold 115 Kindle books. Additionally, during this same time period the Company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books. This is across Amazon.com’s entire [...]
Yikes. Android Central reports that Motorola’s Xoom Android Tablet will be priced at $799 by Verizon. That must be unsubsidized right? The Xoom utilizes Honeycomb (Android 3.0), the tablet-specific version of the Android mobile operating system. While we’ve seen Android tablets running version 1.6 and even 2.2 (Froyo), this will be the first instance of [...]
Engadget reports that a trusted tipster sent in internal renders of HP / Palm’s “Topaz” webOS tablet, which is one of two tablets currently being developed in Sunnyvale. The 9-inch Topaz and a 7-inch model codnamed Opal — a lineup that fits nicely into Palm’s “Something big, Something small, Something beyond” tagline for its upcoming [...]
