Posts Tagged ‘ Apple ’

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Apple finally gave us the date the first iPads will hit store shelves: April 3. We’ve been closely following the touch-screen tablet since Apple first announced it in late January, but here’s a quick guide for your most essential questions about the device. First things first: How big is it? The iPad’s screen...
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Goodbye Futhark, hello Carakan. With Tuesday’s release of Opera 10.5 for Windows, it’s time for a new JavaScript engine. Opera’s new Carakan engine is much faster than Futhark, an important consideration given the increasing demands Web applications put on the Web-based programming language. My earlier tests on a dual-core Windows XP machine showed Google’s V8 JavaScript...
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pSure, the unibody MacBooks have longer-lasting batteries. But for many, those improvements came at too high a cost–no swapping of spare batteries can be a lethal limitation. But for the folks at Sanho, it presented a dreamy business opportunity, and their line of batteries delivers the plug-and-go power that many of you crave, though...
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Consumers will be able to buy the iPad at a variety of locations besides Apple’s retail store, Apple’s chief operating officer said Tuesday. (Credit: Apple) The comments came during Tim Cook’s speech at the Goldman Sachs annual tech conference in San Francisco. In addition to the obvious Apple retail stores, consumers will be able to purchase...
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As Apple, HP, Dell, and others gear up to grab a piece of the new tablet market, let’s not retread old ideas. That is, of course, if they have some really good new ones. Link to this post!
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The iPad. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of posts and podcasts up about this product, and whether it’s worth buying, and what’s with the stupid name. But for this podcast I have two smart guests with me with whom I want to step a bit beyond these immediate...
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After the Kindle, the iPad is the new e-reader goliath. (Credit: Apple) Every since we had an inkling that Apple would come out with a slate-style device that resembled a giant iPod Touch, we knew that it would have a profound impact on the e-book reader world. We always figured there would be a before and after...
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Mozilla has been steadily creeping towards it goal of releasing the first Firefox browser for mobile phones. On Friday, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo–previously code-named Fennec–arrived. Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness...
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January 30, 2010 1:31 PM PST How to make the iPad a better music device by Matt Rosoff Font size Print E-mail Share 7 comments Share I was at Apple’s iPad launch on Wednesday, and maybe it was just Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field, but I don’t quite understand why...
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Apple is in secret last-minute negotiations with book publishers over a new e-books pricing scheme for Apple’s highly anticipated tablet computer, putting it in direct competition with Amazon, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Apple wants publishers to create a two new price points for e-books of best-sellers: $12.99 and $14.99, with...
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In a few hours, the jig will be up. Apple will have unveiled its latest and greatest gadget, which is widely expected to (and better) be a tablet. For months, the tech world has been swarming over a steady stream of purported leaks, rumors, and strategically planned business moves by Apple that have pointed...
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Inovisi Infracom (INVS) Mobile Internet Data Bandwidth Doubled In 2009 and OptimisticInovisi Infracom, the leading enterprise and telecommunication infrastructure system provider, today unveiled that the mobile internet data transaction in Asia Pacific going through Inovisi’s infrastructure has doubled in year 2009. Jakarta January 27, 2010 — Inovisi Infracom, the leading enterprise and telecommunication infrastructure...
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