With the purchase of Palm, HP promised to “double down” on its WebOS. They seem to mean business, already having killed the Windows 7-based HP Slate and, according to the Examiner, have already started building a WebOS tablet codenamed the ‘HP Hurricane’.
Unless Palm already had some pretty significant tablet plans, that timetable seems awfully aggressive.
Palm CEO, Jon Rubinstein last year told Slashgear:
he did tell us that webOS was designed to be a
Some fact, some speculation, but as Apple delivers its million-selling iPad to international audiences (at a premium price), we’re seeing broadcasters embracing HTML5 as that Apple TV ‘hobby’ looks ever more like a secret fourth weapon in Apple’s future business strategy.
Anthony Soohoo, senior vice president and general manager of CBS Interactive tells us that by the start of the fall season the network will have all the same video available for iPad that is available on CBS.com.
The company is making its video available as a website and intends making video available as HTML5. There
Orange claims the prize for being the first UK operator to confirm its iPad 3G data access prices this afternoon, with similar deals from O2 and Vodafone expected.
Orange today announced that it is extending its partnership with Apple to offer new iPad plans for customers in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Switzerland. The partnership between Orange and Apple, which has already seen iPhone launch with Orange in 30 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa, will extend later in 2010 with the launch of iPad in additional Orange markets.
The company will offer 3G data plans for iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, from 10 May, and will launch a pre-registration site for SIM
iPads are selling out all across the USA as Apple promises to introduce the product to more countries at the end of the month.
But in the US, with over a million sales so far, Apple is running short of the popular device.
Apple retail stores in 13 cities have sold out of all three versions of the iPad 3G, and they don
iPhone shipments have more than doubled year-on-year, new figures published by IDC this morning have revealed, with the Apple mobile grabbing marketshare from Research In Motion
Apple has announced that it intends making the iPad available in nine more countries on May 28, and will open up for pre-orders on May 10.
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The next iPhone will not carry an AMOLED display, with Apple opting for an LCD touchscreen as used in current generation iPhones, albeit at a higher resolution than we have right now – at least, that
As much as coolness can be graphed, Fortune says that Apple’s moves over the past few months have cost it some of its cool. At the moment, 18-34 year olds have a more favorable opinion of Google and Facebook than Apple. ABC and Nick Bilton discuss the issue on Youtube here.
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From the far more money than sense department: iPad used as a mood light.
Via: Giz
With a little jailbreaking and some SSH’ing, you can get an external USB hard drive to mount on an iPad through the USB camera kit. While it is a little unwieldy, it shows that Terabytes of external storage is possible, should Apple deem it worthy. via Engadget
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When it came to its design, Apple’s iPad broke the rules. The company put the user first. That’s why its sold a million of them in under a month and made a billion dollars — the fastest product launch in history, some say.
“The future of the tablet market may eventually be decided by battery life. In using a low power processor, Apple has taken a major advantage. This advantage will be all the more apparent when competing products running Adobe Flash reach the market.”
Warner Music Group CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr, is full of praise for Apple – sparking fresh speculation iTunes streaming music services may be on the way. His comments come as Spotify is expected bring its streaming music services to the US this year, perhaps this summer.
Spotify lets users listen to music online for free, and offers them the chance to buy music from a library songs (8 million for Spotify, 11 million for iTunes), make playlists, store music on their computers, and sync that music with their iPods, smart phones or other MP3 players.
Rumors Apple intends launching its own version of Spotify via iTunes using technology acquired with the purchase of LaLa.com last December have persisted since before that purchase occured.
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As the design and technology gurus in the back rooms of the company secretively developed what would become the iPad, Apple executives consistently dismissed rumours they were engaged in developing netbooks or slates. Now the iPad has eaten the netbook market.
Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty has released new stats which show the announcement of the iPad slowed growth in the netbook market to a standstill, as reported by Fortune.
Sales growth peaked last summer at 641% year-over-year, but collapsed in January (when the iPad was announced) and fell again in April. Huberty says this is because of the impact of Apple
Apple has another patent, a doozy, this one describes a way to use the unique beat of the human heart to identify a user – there
Opera Software has thrown its hat in the ring on the great Adobe Flash v. Apple, iPhone and the need for open standards debate, urging Adobe to embrace open web standards.
The general election takes place in the UK today. Arguably the first major UK election in which social networks such as Twitter and Facebook may have an effect on how people decide where to place their
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Hidden inside the iPhone OS 4 beta are an interesting set of codes for video capture:
AVCaptureSessionPreset640x480
AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720
That seems to indicate that the iPhone 4G will be able to record in 720P HD, much like all of those Flip HD type products out there. It also makes it slightly more likely that the iPhone will be called the ‘iPhoneHD’. Slightly.
It is uncertain if current iPhone 3GS’s possess enough processing power to record 720P video. It also makes us think that 64GB is going to be the sweet spot in storage on the next iPhone.
Adobe has changed its tune, with CTO Kevin Lynch clearly listening to Steve Jobs in the delivery of his latest promise,