News from ZDNet | | | Samsung Galaxy Tab coming to Sprint on November 14 The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will be coming to all four major US wireless carriers and Sprint gets theirs on 14 November. Read more | | RIM intros SDK, PlayBook simulator for BlackBerry Tablet OS Research In Motion dropped two new goodies for developers over at Adobe Max today: the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR and a PlayBook simulator. Read more | | Gingerbread man arrives at Google Last time Google got a shipment of an oversized dessert, it was only about a week until the release of Froyo. Today Google received a giant Gingerbread man to join the collection of other desserts. It's unclear if that means we're only days away from the Gingerbread release, but it... Read more | | Microsoft vs. Apple: Who's winning? The numbers don't lie Is Apple really making a dent in Microsoft's long-standing Windows monopoly? Are mobile devices taking over tasks that used to be done by PCs? To answer these questions, I went off in seacrh of hard numbers and found four unmistakable trends. Read more | | Ubuntu splits from GNOME UI: A good, pragmatic move Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth detailed how Ubuntu will split from the GNOME user interface for Unity, which is its netbook approach. Simply put, Ubuntu will have a custom user interface. Read more | | Is two years too long to wait for Windows 8? Microsoft is working on Windows 8, which is no surprise to us all. What is interesting is that it will probably take another two years for it to surface: in or around of 2012. Is this too long to wait? Read more | | Broadcast networks blocking Google TV's access to shows on their Websites Wanna watch full episodes of your favorite shows from the networks' own Websites using your new Google TV device? Well, you can't, thanks to ABC, CBS, and NBC blocking their sites using Google's just-released platform. You can probably figure out why. The big three can still sell a lot more... Read more | | Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect on the 'post-PC world' Ray Ozzie may be a lame duck at this point, as he will soon be leaving his Chief Software Architect post at Microsoft. But that hasn't stopped him from publishing an updated assessment of Microsoft's strategy and products. Read more | | MacBook Air and the future of notebooks If there's one Apple product that professionals love to hate, it's the MacBook Air, Apple's super-lightweight notebook that was just refreshed. At the launch event, Steve Jobs said the future of notebooks can be seen today in the new MBA. Whether the sexy Air is right for everyone at this... Read more | | What will you pay for an Android tablet? Wrong answer: $499 Best Buy will reportedly sell the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Wi-Fi version, for $499. That's $100 too high to sway this consumer. Read more | | Amazon: Latest Kindle generation sales surpass fourth quarter 2009 While Amazon's overall profits might seem up and down, the Kindle is certainly helping boost revenues. The online retail giant is reporting that the sales of the third generation device have already surpassed sales between October and December 2009. Read more | | Borders gets revolutionary on e-book reader prices Borders has launched its biggest e-book reader sale yet with up to $30 off select e-book readers this week. Read more | | Apple unbundles Flash Player from Mac OS X; Java next Word is out that Apple will ship all new Mac OS X machines without Adobe Flash Player pre-installed. Read more | | Adobe launches AIR 2.5, InMarket service: Aims for TVs, tablets, phones Amid a few more jabs from Apple, Adobe rolled out its AIR 2.5 platform, which allows developers to create apps across multiple devices such as TVs, tablets, smartphones and PCs. Read more |
|  | |
Connect with TechRepublic | | |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment