Email More minipcpro / YouTube See Also How To Replace Your Cable Subscription With An iPad The Phocus Is A Must-Have iPhone Photography Accessory Our Favorite Tech Superstars Use These Apps Every Day A post on RIM’s blog reveals that the PlayBook will soon be tricked out with 4G LTE for super-fast internet connectivity...
Watchwithkristin via Flickr Yet another subscription e-commerce company has launched, but this time Hollywood actress Christina Applegate is getting in on the action. FabKids is a new subscription e-commerce company that sells children’s apparel. It has raised a $2.6 million Series A round; Hillsven Capital and Brian Sugar are among the investors. For $49.95...
The latest Gmail Android app update brings several new features, but this is a must-have for 7-inch tablets. Google slightly reworked the UI and it now works better with 7-inch tablets. Previously, when in landscape mode, the app would occasionally abruptly cut off messages. That’s now fixed for 7-inch tablets running Android 4.0 or...
Once again, Apple is barely able to keep up with demand for a newly launched product — this time, the Retina Macbook Pro. Back in mid-July, shipping times improved from 3-4 weeks to 2-3 weeks, and recently moved down to 1-2 weeks. Now that number has been lowered a third time to just 5-7 days...
US telecommunications powerhouse ATT has announced that it has agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, which holds key licenses in the Wireless Communication Services (WCS) and Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) bands. NextWave Wireless produces mobile multimedia solutions and speculates in the wireless spectrum market. The company is perhaps most notable for suing (successfully) the US...
You knew it had to happen, but it still stings. With Amazon’s complicated update of its Cloud Player digital music service, the company has made its cloud-based music-locker service much less friendly to users who don’t want to pay for a subscription. Amazon’s announcement Tuesday made it sound like the online retail giant was...
RIM is about to launch its new 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with built-in support for cellular networks, the Canadian mobile manufacturer announced today. According to the company, “the 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will come with 32GB of memory storage and will be available from Bell, Rogers and TELUS in Canada on August 9,...
Not so long ago, those expensive, proprietary seat-back entertainment systems were the coolest way to entertain yourself in the sky – and a key point of airline differentiation. But the rising popularity of iPads threatens to make even the slickest built-in entertainment systems obsolete. Forward-thinking airlines are scrambling to get ahead of the trend....
The Olympic brouhaha surrounding Chinese swimming sensation Ye Shiwen just ratcheted up several notches. Chinese Web celebrity and former Google China head Kaifu Lee temporarily posted on his much-followed microblog account the personal information of John Leonard, the Team USA swimming coach who had questioned the legitimacy of Ye’s record-breaking performance. Tech in Asia is tracking the confusing trail...
HireVue today announced its acquisition of CodeEval, a platform technical evaluations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but HireVue founder Mark Newman confirms that the CodeEval team is joining HireVue to continue developing the CodeEval product. No acqui-hire here. CodeEval was founded by a guy named Jimmy John, who I’m pretty sure is...