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Nintendo debuts Wii U
Nintendo, for the majority of this console generation, has been content to play its own game. Now it’s ready to take the fight to Microsoft and Sony. The company on Tuesday unveiled its next generation home video game machine — dubbed Wii U — that will be flush with the high-definition graphics gamers have come [...]
Project Blade Runner: The Personal Computer Of 2019
Per ZDNet: With ZDNet having just celebrated its 20th anniversary in April of 2011 and publishing a number of retrospectives on how technology has evolved over the last twenty years, both Scott Raymond and I decided that it might make for an interesting thought experiment to try to project what personal computing might actually evolve [...]
For Computer Chip Builders, Only One Way To Go: Up
In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today’s chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional transistor design it revealed Wednesday. Analysts call it one [...]
Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
Nook Color Steps Up Its Tablet Game
Per Paul Demery of Internet Retailer: Is it an e-reader or a tablet? At less than half the price of an iPad 2 and small enough to fit in a handbag, the latest version of Barnes & Noble Inc.42BarnesandNoble.com Inc. Books / Music / VideosOnline Sales:$493,000,000 (IR estimate)Growth:5.8%See More. ’s Nook Color is chockfull of [...]
Sony Dives Into Tablet Race
According to CNN Money: Sony is diving into the tablet race, announcing Tuesday that is working on two gadgets that will hit the market this fall. One of the tablets, code-named S1, will be a flat slate with a 9.4-inch screen, just a touch smaller than Apple’s iPad. Its S2 tablet will be more unusual, [...]
Apple Slammed Over iPhone, iPad Location Tracking
According to Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press: Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users — records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge. It’s not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook Can Succeed In Market Dominated By Apple iPad
According to The Canadian Press: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion launched its new PlayBook tablet to little fanfare Tuesday, but experts say the Canadian gadget can still be successful in a growing industry dominated by hoopla surrounding Apple’s rival iPad. Few people lined up at downtown Toronto electronics stores to buy the tablet, a stark [...]
Android Tablets Undercutting IPad Prices
In an effort to attract buyers away from Apple’s iPad, device makers are setting starting prices of Android tablets to undercut iPad’s US$499 entry-level price. The starting prices for tablets with 10.1-inch screens from ViewSonic, Asustek and Acer range from $279 to $449. The tablets run different versions of Google’s Android OS, include 10.1-inch displays, [...]