Just when you thought the iPad 2 craze was winding to a close, a story in the New York Times sheds light on what’s really going with Cupertino’s newest slate. Apparently, iPad 2 resellers in New York City are still spending nights in the cold, waiting to pick up as many units as Apple’s SoHo store is willing to sell. With a feeding frenzy for iPad 2s in China, resellers are cashing in as much as $400 a day shipping units overseas.
April, 2011
President Obama – the most powerful man in the world – appears to be less than impressed with his BlackBerry. At a fundraiser in Chicago he commented privately that the technology used by the White House was ‘like, 30 years behind’, before going on to bemoan the lack of ‘really cool phones and stuff’. He raged, ‘I’m the President of the United States, where’s the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen?’ To be fair, the man’s got a point. Read on to find out why…
Whether you’re running the London marathon, or watching from the sofa with a bottomless bowl of Skittles, it’s worth checking out Nike’s new GPS watch. The Nike+ SportWatch GPS was one of the surprise stars of this year’s CES show, and it’s now on sale in the UK. But how does it match up to Garmin’s legendary fitness timepieces? Put down that bowl, and read our expert review to find out…
Back in 1997, when HTC was a design and manufacturing outfit, it launched what was then a unique product: a PDA. Less than two years later, with the company requiring a large injection of cash, it was clear the product was ahead of its time. As co-founder Cher Wang (daughter of the second richest man in Taiwan) later observed: ‘The market just wasn’t ready for a PDA phone that behaved like a minicomputer’.
Yet just last week, HTC announced some extraordinary news. Record profits for the first three months of the year had hit £313m, triple that of the same period last year – and in terms of market value, it had overtaken Nokia. It seems HTC hasn’t just captured your imagination – it’s captured your wallet, too.
Read on to reveal the secrets behind its success!
There’s 15 minutes left of the working week giving us just enough time to kick out this week’s Sites We Like.
Our four selections this week are cuteness heavy from the kid who dances in the Apple Store to cats covered in random items and a special cuteness randomiser. Luckily Jay-Z is in there too to toughen things up. Click through to see this week’s most fun sites…
Electricpig meets former Radio 1 presenter Colin Murray – and discovers a man who loves to talk tech. When he’s not reading Sports Illustrated on his iPad or hunting down obscure music on his Sonos, the BBC anchorman is streaming baseball to his laptop in the wee hours. Yet despite all that, he can’t stand Twitter. WTF, as they say…
Let’s talk news. Let’s talk views. Let’s talk all of the morning’s top stories – read on for the lunchtime lowdown roundup of all the choice picks in gadgetry and gaming.
Here’s a brilliant way to waste time this morning: The World’s Biggest Pac-Man. Designed by Soap Creative, the game puts together user created maps to create a vast interconnected nest of mazes.
The game uses HTML5 and is genius. You can choose where to start by clicking on a square and, if you log in via Facebook, the game will keep track of which Pac-Man maps you’ve visited and your lifetime stats. Warning: start playing and you be addicted!
Out now | £free | World’s Biggest Pac-Man