HP’s public relations manager Mark Budgell wrote a blog post Tuesday afternoon confirming a report from Reuters earlier in the day in which HP vice president Todd Bradley suggested the company would resurrect its TouchPad tablet. “Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Start-up companies using “freemium” business models, including Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Animoto and Eventbrite, are thriving as the cost of computing power and storage falls. Original post by timothy
Google’s Android platform continued on its warpath in the U.S. last month according to new data from industry watcher comScore. ComScore on Tuesday released its July MobiLens data, showing that Android again enjoyed the biggest gains among smartphone operating systems in the U.S. Google’s mobile OS grew 5.4 points compared to April to take 41.8% [...]
RIM’s Senior Director of Global Developer Relations Mike Kirkup just announced on his personal blog that he is leaving Research In Motion after 10 years. While he thanks “many amazing individuals” inside RIM, it’s obvious to anyone outside the company that RIM has failed to gain a much-needed developer base, even with the launch of [...]
One thing you can never be without is a good flashlight, especially one that has a bright brilliant light. But for me a flashlight is just a flashlight. That is unless it has something about it that gives it a unique characteristic. And the PrimeTorch 1010 by Primus is one such flashlight. One thing I [...]
The most popular smartphone in Samsung history is expected to be unveiled for AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile this evening at a special press event — where we’ll be reporting live — but it looks like new details are beginning to leak out early. Sprint’s version of the sleek Android phone has apparently been revealed by [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s board of directors faces a lawsuit for previously allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise prescription drugs to U.S. customers via the Web search leader. Original post by Soulskill
Apple has rebuffed reports that its upcoming cloud service will offer streaming music capabilities. Indeed, any music accessed via the cloud needs to be stored on a device before it can be listened to. read more Original post by Trent Nouveau
BEIJING (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co may resurrect its TouchPad as it weighs a spinoff of its personal computer arm, the head of its PC division said, suggesting HP might revive a tablet that lasted just six weeks in the face of stiff competition from Apple Inc. Original post by Soulskill
Released in 1984, and starring a pre-Robocop Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension didn’t catch on during its initial release, but currently enjoys a devoted following. read more Original post by David Konow
