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HP’s recently launched tablet, the TouchPad, didn’t really get too many positive reviews right out the gate, but that’s not stopping the company from launching several new versions of the device over the next few months. According to documents obtained by Pre|Central, HP is going to release a 64 GB white TouchPad in August with…
Earlier this year Apple made a decision to charge publishers who wanted to offer a subscription the same 30% fee that they charge app developers. This pissed the content industry off since they’d have to forfeit a substantial amount of their revenue over to Apple who was in essence doing nothing but offering their apps…
HP, who purchased Palm in April 2010 and then killed the brand, mind you that internally the folks who once worked at Palm still refer to themselves as Palm, recently launched their answer to Apple’s iPad: the TouchPad. Yes, the name is bland, but it got a lot of people excited because it was the…
When the European Union was formed the goal was to eliminate the need for multiple currencies and to improve trade between nations. As the years have gone by however, the EU has become similar to the United States of America in that there’s regulation that’s passed by high ranking elected officials which all 27 members…
Mobile payments are set to explode over the next few months, with Google Wallet launching later this year and Isis, the joint venture setup by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon due to hit the market in the summer of 2012. What makes Isis special is that America’s largest operators recognized that the faster a set of…
Nortel Networks is a Canadian telecommunications company that made one bad business decision too many and went bankrupt. In order to pay off their debts, they’ve been selling off bits and pieces of their company over the past few months. You may or may not have heard the news of Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson picking…
According to a site called WindowsPhoneApplist there are now over 25,000 applications available for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone platform. With Windows Phone having launched back in late October 2010, that would mean that it’s taken between 8 and 9 months to achieve this figure. For the sake of comparison, Apple announced that it has 25,000…
There are two schools of thought when it comes to what size a tablet should be. Some say that Apple, with the 9.7 inch iPad and iPad 2, have found the ideal size and shape of a device to propel us into a “post PC” era, while the other side says that Samsung, with the…
LG’s sleek and slender Optimus Black may not pack the same dual core punch of the latest superphones on the market, but it was never meant to compete with those beasts. No, the LG Optimus Black is all about thin, 9.2 mm thin to be exact, and about screen quality. The 4 inch “Nova” display…
Samsung’s dual core 4.3 inch beast, the Galaxy S II, was a device we instantly fell in love with after it was announced earlier this year in February at Mobile World Congress. The superphone houses a dual core processor, one of the most delicious 4.3 inch displays to ever hit the market, and best of…