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Acer on Friday announced the first seven-inch tablets in its Iconia line -- the Iconia Tab A100 series. These devices run Android 3.2, a.k.a. "Honeycomb," and are available now in North America. There are two models in the Iconia Tab A100 family, with 8 GB and 16 GB of memory. They are priced at $33...
London's burning, and it may lead to a clampdown on social media in the UK. UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday suggested censoring social media in response to the violence. Mobs reportedly communicating in part through BlackBerry Messenger, and later social media sites, wreaked havoc throug...
Amazon unveiled a new HTML5 Kindle Web app on Wednesday. Kindle Cloud Reader, which is already up and running, provides access to books offline and online via a Web browser with no download or installation needed. Currently the service works with Google Chrome and Safari, both on PCs and the iPad. A...
Facebook launched a new mobile app Tuesday that provides SMS and Facebook message services as well as group chats between phone contacts and Facebook friends. By Wednesday morning, the app topped the list of free apps in the iTunes store. The feature is a challenge to traditional messaging and could...
Two major publishers -- the Tribune Co. and the Philadelphia Media Network, or PMN -- plan to offer long-term subscribers free or heavily subsidized tablet readers. The Tribune is reportedly developing an Android tablet. PMN plans to offer deeply discounted Android tablets together with applications...
Sprint on Friday unveiled the Samsung Conquer 4G, an Android smartphone that will be available for purchase Aug. 21. The Conquer 4G is the first 4G smartphone from Sprint launched at less than $100. It has a 1 GHz processor, front and rear cameras, runs Android 2.3, and comes with Sprint ID widgets,...
Clearwire said Wednesday that it intends to add "LTE Advanced-Ready" technology to its 4G network. The announcement follows the successful completion of 4G tests that clocked download speeds above 120 Mbps. The deployment is subject to additional funding, the company said. Clearwire's initial implem...
Research In Motion announced five new smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 7 operating system on Wednesday. AT&T, Sprint and U.S. Cellular will all get new devices that maintain some of the feel of earlier products while offering functionality competitive with the leading smartphones on the m...
Motorola's latest high-end Android smartphone, the Photon, has hit the shelves at Sprint stores for $200 and a two-year contract. Online customers had a head start -- the Photon was available at Sprint's website days ahead of its brick-and-mortar arrival. The Photon runs on Android 2.3 -- Gingerbrea...
Dilbert gets Windows Phone 7, the US Gets Three Stooges The two things I found particularly interesting last week were the continued focus on the U.S. government's inability to live within its means and Scott Adams, the father of Dilbert, accepting the Windows Phone 7 challenge. The first continue...
Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is the company's first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1. The device has work and personal modes, with a firewall of sorts between them so there's no leakage of information between the two. "What's interesting to me is ...
Mango, the largest update yet to Microsoft's still-young Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, was released to manufacturers Tuesday in what the software company called an "important milestone" in its fight to gain some ground in the competitive smartphone marketplace. The update was first shown off in May and...
The Mozilla Foundation is looking into creating a standalone mobile operating system for the open Web. A team of programmers from the organization has set up the Boot to Gecko project to work on this idea. This OS is based on the idea that the Web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for a...
Occluded by the opposition and battered by poor financial results, Research In Motion on Friday made announcements aimed at shoring up its sagging fortunes. The mobile device maker announced it has received FIPS 140-2 certification from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technolog...
I'm in the midst of doing the biggest tablet review I've ever attempted, and I have to admit I'm rather impressed with a number of the Android offerings. The funny thing is, the ones closest to the phone work the best, suggesting there is a bit of a Windows XP/Vista event going on in this space. Whi...
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