On Thursday during a business presentation in Boston, RIM reassure the audience about the battery life of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Senior product lead Ryan Bidan said the audience didn’t have to worry about how long the battery would last. The goal was still officially to get eight hours, or about a “full day” of use. […]
UBS analyst Maynard Um has raised his target price for Apple stock from $365 to $415, quoting several factors. Chief among these is the holiday season, as iPads, iPhones and iPods are said to have been some of the most gifted electronics. The new MacBook Air is also said to be showing “strong” sales, not […]
Microsoft was confirmed this weekend to already have code in place for a FaceTime-like video chat system in Windows Phone 7. A DLL handling media in the OS makes reference to a ‘self portrait camera,’ and a second scoop has also unearthed registry entries for VoIP and SIP support for voice-only features like Skype. Neowin […]
Academy Award winner Michel Gondry takes over the director’s chair at “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 at 12:05 A.M. ET/PT in an episode featuring an interview with the film’s star Seth Rogen. Rogen returns to “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the first time since June 21, 2010 when Kimmel’s studio lost power and the host […]
Google said Tuesday it was dropping support for H.264 video in Chrome’s HTML5 component. It acknowledged that the more popular format had an “important role” but hoped it could force adoption of its open but internally-developed WebM format as well as Ogg Theora. The company claimed that opening up the VP8 codec underneath led to […]
Apple will sell a new set of Bumper cases to match the Verizon iPhone, a company spokesperson has reportedly confirmed. The series will represent just a minor revision, rather than an aesthetic overhaul. The spokesperson has not elaborated on when the new Bumpers might ship, although the phone itself is due on February 10th. The […]
A consortium of several companies, including Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle, has backed away from its plan to buy a large number of Novell patents. The companies had submitted a plan notifying German regulators of the decision to establish CPTN Holdings and purchase 882 of the patents, however the group withdrew its filing on December […]
The official TiVo iPad app should be at the App Store by the end of January, per a tweet by TiVo. Tivo’s Twitter feed also adds that the prospect of Android and iPhone apps is being investigated. The iPad app will require a connection to the same network as a TiVo set-top. Though primarily intended […]
Sony will close one of its biggest CD making factories due to the growth and popularity of digital downloads as well as other economic influences. Based in Pitman, New Jersey, the plant has been operating for 50 years and first produced vinyl records. 300 jobs will be lost when its doors close on March 31. […]
We saw a bunch of great products at CES…Tablets, TVs, Cell Phones, Video Games, Laptops, Cars, even Washers and Dryers. Behind all of them is the cloud, because those gadgets become more powerful when connected. While I may not want to pack my washer around with me when I go on a trip or out […]
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