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Apple wins another round in the fight against Samsung. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is officially banned from being sold in Australia. Apple originally sued Samsung for infringing two patents regarding multi-touch gestures and controls. Back in August, Samsung had originally agreed not to sell the tablet in Australia anyway until the judge made a verdict.…
I was pretty thrilled to see American Airlines and Samsung teaming up to give some passengers free Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets for flights because I’m a huge fan of tablets on planes. I really think there is a huge opportunity to enhance the traveling experience with these devices and more airlines need to embrace tablets.…
The latest study conducted by Nielsen shows that 40 percent of people use their tablets and smartphones while watching TV. This survey illustrates how users are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia, and justifies a lot of the work DirecTV is doing with smartphone and tablet linking to their set-top boxes. All of this information…
When Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, it forgot to mention how much it will cost. Thanks to Netbook.it we now know how much the Korean company will ask for the brand new tablet in Italy – 499 EUR. That’s not that bad for a device as capable as the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus,…
It looks like EA is going to have some competition with the new titles it just launched. Gameloft has just released six games for RIM’s tablet, running the gamut from sci-fi shooter to soccer. UNO HD is the classic card game, complete with multiplayer and various game modes. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD is a racing…
Good news for those of you who grabbed yourself the let’s face it not-that-popular Vizio tablet – it just got a small yet important firmware update. Unfortunately, the new software doesn’t bring Honeycomb on your device, but you do get few handy enhancements, including the Netflix support. Yep that means you will be able to…
One of the great/horrible things about this job is that I do a lot of traveling. Over the last year, I’ve been to Las Vegas, Austin, Orlando, Barcelona, Helsinki, New York, Bellevue and countless others and while it’s fun to explore new locations, actually getting there can be a pain in the rear end. You…
T-Mobile announced its SpringBoard Android tablet the other day and we were able to go hands on with the device. It’s pretty sleek, considering what a designer can actually do with such a slim form factor, and appeared to work smoothly without any hiccups. That could be thanks to its 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, too.…
EA is following up on their BlackBerry PlayBook release of Dead Space over the summer with a handful of other recognizable games. Casual puzzler Bejeweled 2, urban planning strategy game SimCity Deluxe, and classic board game The Game of Life are now all available in BlackBerry App World. EA was in a good spot…
About 37 million ultra-mobile devices (UMDS), led by Apple’s iPad 2, will ship in the United States during 2011. This category represents devices on a continuum bordered by laptop PCs and smartphones, consisting of ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), mobile Internet devices (MIDs), netbooks and media tablets. The revenue value from vendor shipments of UMDs into US…