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Google Chrome tablet could hit market by Black Friday – CSMonitor.com

August 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

HTC, the manufacturer of a range of popular smartphones, including the EVO 4G, is making a tablet computer for Google, and it could hit by Black Friday this November, just in time for the holiday rush. That’s the word from the blog Download Squad, which says the HTC tablet will run Chrome OS, Google’s forthcoming open-source operating system.

If the folks at Download Squad have their facts in order – their item is sourced to an anonymous insider – a Google tablet would provide a welcome alternative in the tablet market, which is currently dominated by the Apple iPad. According to Lee Matthews at Download Squad, the HTC-made tablet will be “heavily subsidized” by Verizon, and “substantially cheaper” than the iPad.

The Google tablet, Matthews continues, will be “based on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform and sport a 1280×720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, minimum 32GB SSD, WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity, GPS, webcam, and possibly expandable storage via a multi-card reader.” Translation: This computer would be packing a series punch.

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Lawsuit Says iPad Overheats, is ‘Unusable’ in Direct Sunlight | PCMag.com

July 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

There’s no doubt that the Apple iPad is a hot product, but does it get too hot in certain situations? Three California residents have filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of marketing a product that is “virtually unusable” in certain environments – namely, direct sunlight.

Jacob Baltazar, Claudia Keller, and John R. Browning filed a class-action suit in California District Court, claiming that their iPad tablets overheat in common situations, turn off after a few minutes of use, and cannot be used in direct sunlight.

The iPad includes an e-book component that lets users download books and read them on the tablet. Apple said reading on the iPad is just like reading on a regular book, but the lawsuit argued that this is false, since its screen does not allow people to read in direct sunlight. The device also “overheats so quickly under common weather conditions that it does not function for prolonged use either outdoors, or in many other warm conditions [as] an e-reader, e-mail tool, Web browser and/or game/entertainment unit.”

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Norton Security For iPhone & Android, iPhone Use Grows | CMSwire

June 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Symantec Launches Norton Everywhere Initiative

As a part of its Norton Everywhere initiative, Symantec has introduced a range of new Norton software solutions targeted at mobile devices, including Android and iPhone smart phones as well as the Apple iPad.

This month, the security company rolls out a slew of new features and solutions aimed at making the mobile enterprise more secure. Among the features:

  • Norton Smartphone Security Beta for Android will allow users who have lost their devices to remotely lock or wipe data from their phone with a simple text message.
  • Norton Connect Beta is a free mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android users that lets them access any files archived with Norton Online Backup or Norton 360. The service will be downloadable from either the Android Market or the iPhone App store.
  • Norton DNS Beta uses Domain Name System technology, an application that will let Android users verify the safety of URLs when a user visits the address.
  • Norton for Smart Devices strategy works to embed Symantec security into non-PC internet connected devices, such as smart phones as well as televisions, home security systems and digital picture frames.

via Mobile Enterprise: Norton Security For iPhone & Android, iPhone Use Grows.

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Asus Challenges Apple’s iPad with Eee Pad | PCMag.com

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When CEO Jerry Shen unveiled the Asus Eee Pad on stage at Computex today, the crowd of journalists almost rushed the stage with excitement.

Unlike the similarly-named Asus Eee Tablet, which is designed to compete with e-Readers like the Nook and the Kindle, the Eee Pad is designed to go head-to-head with the Apple iPad.

The Eee Pad is a Windows 7-based device that uses an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo processor and a touch-sensitive capacitive screen. It can be used as a multimedia player, e-reader, Web-browser, or, with the help of a keyboard docking station, full-featured PC.  Asus will be releasing two versions of the Eee Pad. The EP101TC will come with a 10-inch screen and the EP121 will ship with a 12-inch screen. Asus claims both systems will deliver at least 10 hours of battery life.

Asus CEO Jerry Shen says that tablet devices like this will bridge the conventional divide between business and consumer products. “We envision a different kind of usage scenario,” Shen said. “You can be both a premier professional and a housewife.”

via Asus Challenges Apple’s iPad with Eee Pad | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

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1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld

May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Positive press and word of mouth from very satisfied owners has convinced one-in-five U.S. consumers to buy an Apple iPad, a survey published today said.

In a poll of nearly 3,400 consumers, ChangeWave Research found that 7% are “very likely,” and 13% “somewhat likely” to buy an iPad at some point. Those numbers, noted Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s research director, are significantly higher than the 4% and 9% who answered the same way in a February survey taken after Apple CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the media tablet, but before it went on sale in early April.

While 19% of those who plan to purchase an iPad said that they would do so in the next 90 days, the majority of consumers who want an Apple tablet will buy one in six months or more. And that has to make Apple happy this holiday season.

“Apple’s going to have an iPad holiday,” said Carton. “We’ll see a holiday spending wave on the iPad.”

Of the consumers who said they plan to buy an iPad, 24% said they would do so in 6 to 12 months, with another 24% saying they would pull the buying trigger in 12 to 24 months.

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Apple iPad, other tablets seen driving SaaS, cloud storage – Computerworld

April 12, 2010 By
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The rapid spread of tablet devices like the Apple iPad and HP Slate could prove to be a boon to providers of online storage services as users seek ubiquitous data access and synchronization across multiple mobile platforms for devices that don’t have much internal storage capacity.

The flexibility that comes with cloud storage “is not just a nice thing to have but a necessity when you’re dealing with storage-limited devices,” said Avi Greengart, a consumer devices analyst at research firm Current Analysis in Sterling, Va. “If you have a device based on flash memory, you don’t want to sync everything.”

Most of the mobile tablet devices today use NAND flash technology to offer limited memory capacity, typically 64GB or less.

For example, iPads are available with 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drives. And Hewlett-Packard Co. this week disclosed that its upcoming Slate tablet computers will be available later this year with either 32GB or 64GB flash drives.

Greengart said that he expects that future tablet computers are also unlikely to offer the high storage capacities available in netbook and desktop computers, since they will be built more to consume data than to create it.

Tablet users can choose from several providers of cloud-based storage, including Box.net, Live Mesh, JungleDisk, DropBox and SkyDrive. In addition to offering online storage services, some of those vendors let users synchronize folders and files between multiple devices.

Adam Couture, an analyst at Gartner Inc., agreed that growing use of tablet devices could lead to significant growth of the storage services market.

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David Pogue’s Techies Review of the iPad – NYTimes.com

March 31, 2010 By

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The Apple iPad is basically a gigantic iPod Touch.

It’s a half-inch-thick slab, all glass on top, aluminum on the back. Hardly any buttons at all — just a big Home button below the screen. It takes you to the Home screen full of apps, just as on an iPhone.

One model gets online only in Wi-Fi hot spots ($500 to $700, for storage capacities from 16 to 64 gigabytes). The other model can get online either using Wi-Fi or, when you’re out and about, using AT&T’s cellular network; that feature adds $130 to each price.

You operate the iPad by tapping and dragging on the glass with your fingers, just as on the iPhone. When the very glossy 9.7-inch screen is off, every fingerprint is grossly apparent.

There’s an e-book reader app, but it’s not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries (sorry, media pundits). The selection is puny (60,000 titles for now). You can’t read well in direct sunlight. At 1.5 pounds, the iPad gets heavy in your hand after awhile (the Kindle is 10 ounces). And you can’t read books from the Apple bookstore on any other machine — not even a Mac or iPhone.

When the iPad is upright, typing on the on-screen keyboard is a horrible experience; when the iPad is turned 90 degrees, the keyboard is just barely usable (because it’s bigger). A $70 keyboard dock will be available in April, but then you’re carting around two pieces.

At least Apple had the decency to give the iPad a really fast processor. Things open fast, scroll fast, load fast. Surfing the Web is a heck of a lot better than on the tiny iPhone screen — first, because it’s so fast, and second, because you don’t have to do nearly as much zooming and panning.

via State of the Art – David Pogue’s Review of the iPad – NYTimes.com.

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Apple iPad To Come With 30k Free E-books, Report Says – PCWorld

March 26, 2010 By

Over 30,000 classic book titles will be available for free in Apple’s iBookstore when the iPad arrives on April 3, according to a report from AppAdvice. The e-books will come from Project Gutenberg’s free digital library, alongside paid titles from most major publishers.

The volunteer-supported Project Gutenberg, which digitizes literature in the public domain (out of copyright), will bring its library to the iPad for free, according to a photo showing Apple’s iBookstore. The e-books will be DRM-free, while paid titles will be wrapped in Apple’s FairPlay DRM, as previously reported.

Apple’s move to bring the free titles from day one on the iPad is believed to head off any attempts from third parties to profit on literature in the public domain. The 30,000 free titles will also bulk-up the iBookstore library, until publishers add more paid e-books

via Apple iPad To Come With 30k Free E-books, Report Says – PCWorld.

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HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash – PCWorld Business Center

March 10, 2010 By

With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Each platform has pros and cons, but so far the debate seems to center entirely around support for Adobe Flash.

The HP Slate–almost by default–stands out as a more business-oriented platform, if for no other reason than its ties to the Windows 7 operating system. The iPad, which comes across more like an iPod Touch with a thyroid disorder, can certainly be used in some ways within a business context, but it is clearly designed for delivering entertainment media and information to consumers.

Comparing the HP Slate against the Apple iPad based on Flash support is like comparing a Jeep Cherokee to a Chevy Camaro based on which one supports Sirius satellite radio. In both cases the comparison is between objects with completely different audiences, based on a proprietary technology that doesn’t fundamentally impact the function of the object itself.

via HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash – PCWorld Business Center.

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