Olive Telecom’s OlivePad reviewed, we wish we spoke Hindi (video)

Monday, August 23, 2010 at 7:05 pm

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Another contender has entered the fray in the great tablet wars of 2010. It’s the $500 Olive Telecom OlivePad, a seven-inch, 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreened device. Announced back in July, Indian television show TechGuru snagged one for review a few weeks back where they, predictably, squared it off against an iPad. The Android 2.1 [...]

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Best Buy ‘making tablets a focus’ this holiday season, might stock one from Rocketfish

Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 12:11 am

If you waltz into your local Best Buy today, you’ll find precisely one tablet for sale: Apple’s iPad. By the time this holiday season rolls around, though, that’ll all be different. We’ve heard from Steve Ballmer that Microsoft intends for Windows 7 to be powering quite a few tablet devices in the near future, but [...]

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AT&T blocking Dell Streak beta units?

Monday, August 2, 2010 at 11:45 pm

There’s a fascinating discussion going on over in MoDaCo’s forums today suggesting that Dell Streak units that were given out recently as part of the company’s US beta test in and around Austin, Texas are no longer functioning on AT&T, the result of an apparent IMEI block; voice calls placed from the devices all get [...]

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Oh Finally, the iPad Clock Radio Dock [Ipad]

Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 1:21 am

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Presenting iHome’s iPad clock radio dock, with Bluetooth and an iHome iPhone + iPad alarm app. And suddenly, all was right with the world. [iHome via ChipChick via iPodnn via TUAW] More »

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Adobe Air peer-to-peer video call concept Android app hands-on (video)

Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 1:19 am

If you recall, a few days ago we stumbled upon a cheekily-named concept app (which has since been renamed for obvious reasons) from Adobe that does video-calling on Android. This is pretty rad considering it’s just Qik and Fring offering the same service for the green bot right now, so we trotted along to Adobe’s [...]

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Dell Streak Smears Line Between Phone and Tablet

Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 1:18 am

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Product: Streak Manufacturer: DellWired Rating: 7Ed. note: Dell has not announced a price for the Streak. Here’s what you need to know about me. I spend more time checking e-mail, playing with apps and browsing on my smartphone than actually talking on the device. So what if there was a gadget that had an enormous [...]

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Publishing eBooks: Kindle, iPad, Nook, Kobo? [Publishing]

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 1:51 am

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There are many mediums for ebook publishing today. But how does a publisher or author choose which one to use? Or does he or she even have to choose at all? More »

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