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Early BlackBerry PlayBook reviews: good idea, half-finished
The first wave of BlackBerry PlayBook reviews has emerged and suggested that RIM’s first tablet had been rushed to market too soon. Its already known missing (though coming) onboard e-mail and messaging clients were seen as glaring omissions, but it was clear RIM had numerous major apps that were promised later, including video chat, photo sharing, and emulators for BlackBerry phone apps plus Android. David Pogue in his review for the New York … Read entire article »
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MeeGo’s new UI shown on an Atom Z670 tablet
An unbranded tablet running on a freshened up MeeGo OS has been spotted at the IDF Beijing show by NetbookNews. Compared to the Intel tablet with MeeGo at MWC in February, the interface is made a little simpler and cleaner, with floating windows rather columns fixed along a vertical axis. The OS looks to be customizable to a certain extent, as indicated by a New icon, and has Opera Mobile 11 preloaded as the standard … Read entire article »
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Apple’s Steve Jobs agrees to biography due in 2012
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs broke with expectations on Sunday after Simon & Schuster said he had agreed to participate in an authorized biography. Aspen president chief and former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson is penning iSteve: The Book of Jobs with an expected shelf date of early 2012. The official access gave him rare access to a direct interview with Jobs as well as his family, coworkers, and also challengers. Rumorshad emerged of an official biography coming but hadn’t seen further substantiation until now. Isaacson is known for having written biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. He may have been approved both for longstanding experience in journalism as well as a tendency to write neutral but bestselling profiles. Jobs has repeatedly been the subject of biographies and profiles, but … Read entire article »
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Vudu hints movies may hit iPad or iPhone, other tablets
Vudu chief Ed Lichty in a talk on Friday expressed hope that his movie streaming service might come to Apple devices. As part of an anticipation to expand into “tablets and other new gizmos,” according to Forbes, Lichty thought devices like the iPad and iPhone might follow suit. He didn’t give an indication of how close these were or whether there would have to be any changes. The likelihood of an official app has been cast into doubt. Apple allows services that indirectly compete with its own into the App Store, such as music streaming services like Rdio, but often objects when it’s a service that “duplicates functionality” and competes with Apple’s own. Netflix is allowed on the Apple TV and iOS devices partly because it follows … Read entire article »
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Intel unveils 10-core, heavy duty Xeon E7
Intel on Tuesday brought out the Sandy Bridge-based version of its highest-performing Xeons. The Xeon E7 series is the practical version of the Westmere-EX architecture and is intended for both servers as well as other very high performance computers. It represents one of the few if not first Intel chips to break the eight-core barrier and, at 10 real cores, can handle as many as 20 simultaneous code threads at once through Hyperthreading. All … Read entire article »
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