The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 might have gobbled up the spotlight following the generous giveaway at Google I/O, but let’s not forget the tablet has a smaller, lighter and thinner relative: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. The smaller Tab has just received approval from the FCC; a tall tale sign the tablet is on track for an early summer release date.
May, 2011
The latest MacBook Air is just seven months old, but in the world of Apple that’s a time table indicative of a product refresh. The real surprise here is that instead of using Intel Core I processors like the new MacBook Pros and iMacs, the 2011 MacBook Air will sport the A5 processor — the same processor inside our beloved iPad 2.
Though Sony continues to talk up its 10-year-plan for the PS3 (which would take us to 2016), a senior Sony executive has confirmed that work on the PS4 is already underway. Sony CFO, Masaru Kato, spilled the beans in a conference call with investors when pushed on the company’s R&D costs. Read on for what he said and to offer your suggestions for the PS4…
Amazon has revealed another move likely to irritate Apple. After joining Microsoft in the battle to get Apple’s app store trademark tossed out, it’s now opened a Mac App Store rival which it has uncontentiously named the Mac Download Store. Like the Amazon Android AppStore, the Mac Download Store is a US-only deal right now but could well appeal to developers who don’t fancy jumping through Apple’s hoops.
The Amazon Mac Download Store has already scored one big acquistion the Mac App Store has failed to stock so far – Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. That said it may struggle against the convenience of the Mac App Store which is integrated effectively in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and bound to be even more throughly catered for in Mac OS X Lion. We still reckon Cupertino won’t be too thrilled with Amazon’s cheek.
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Ubisoft has outed a new Assassin’s Creed: Revelations video teaser. It’s extremely choppily edited but we’ve spotted a few interesting clues in the brief flashes of battles, ships and striding about. Read on to ponder them with us…
HTC has announced a big change in policy that’ll make it far easier for Android fans to tweak their phone’s software. After listening to the growing clamouring among hardcore HTC fans for unlocked bootloaders on its Android devices, its decided to do just that. That means future Android-rocking HTC phones will be far easier to root and add custom ROMS to. HTC CEO, Peter Chou, announced the move in a very straight forward way on Facebook…
Google has only just outed Google Wallet and already its facing legal woes. PayPal has sued Google and two Google execs who defected from PayPal claiming that they misappropriated trade secrets and shared them with Google and major retailers. Oh dear…
Details on Apple’s cloud music plans, the service now universally dubbed iCloud, were inevitably going to leak out once it started talking to those loose-lipped types in the music industry.
The latest tidbit to fall from the flapping mouths of music execs is that Apple plans for iCloud to mirror your iTunes library instantly and automatically up the quality if the file on your computer isn’t good enough…