The Droid 4 will launch December 8, according to purported promotional materials obtained byDroid Life. The site reports it has confirmed that employee training is already in progress at some Verizon Wireless stores. The Droid 4 will reportedly have Droid Razr styling and run on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, but like the previous Droids, it [...]
The Galaxy Nexus will be available later this year,” the spokeswoman wrote. “Samsung/Google/Verizon Wireless are on track to launch the handset but we don’t yet have a firm date.” The Android-based Galaxy Nexus has so far earned high marks from reviewers. In his review of the handset, CNET editor Kent German said that the “Samsung Galaxy Nexus [...]
The open-source content management system WordPress turned seven years old last month. In its lifetime, it has attracted a devout following: More than 28,000 people download WordPress every day, with over 11.4 million active installations, including news outlets and corporate sites. To commemorate the anniversary, WordPress is leaping forward this month with the release of Version 3.0, [...]
Citing “a reliable Asian source,” the Japanese blog site said that the next generation tablet is being rushed into production due to Chinese New Year celebrations running from January 22-28. Factories in China are gearing up to produce the iPad 3 by the end of January. Assuming Macotakara’s source is reliable, the new iPad will [...]
The next-generation iPhone “was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately involved with from concept to final design. For that reason…this product will establish the high water mark for iPhone volumes,” Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, wrote in a research note this week. He expects the iPhone 5 to be a [...]
That happened to Deb Fallows six months ago, and her husband, author James Fallows, wrote a riveting account of their ordeal forThe Atlantic that makes for fascinating reading. His words of advice are: use strong, unique passwords on important important online accounts; take advantage of Google’s two-step verification service; and back up our cloud-based data on our [...]
An industry source who speaks with the Asia-based tabletsupply chain told CNET that chatter is picking up for a 7-inch Apple tablet. Maybe not coincidentally, that’s the same size of Amazon’s $199 tablet that’s will ship on November 15. Other reports, however, say that “Mini” doesn’t necessarily refer to the size but simply the lower price point, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO–Facebook gaming giant Zynga today took the wraps off several new games, some of which work on the new Facebook iPad app that was released yesterday. The company also unveiled its new gaming platform, Zynga Direct. The first game unveiled, Hidden Chronicles, is a puzzle game–a new category for Zynga–in which you search for objects hidden in [...]
The Android 2.2-based tablet, called Aakash, is a 7-inch device that was first revealed last year by India’sTelecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal. The made-in-India tablet is reportedly powered by a Conexant Systems processor rated at 660MHz, comes with 2GB of internal storage and uses a resistive LCD display instead of a capacitive touchscreen. It has a [...]
iOS 5, which made its debut at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, marks a turning point for the company’s mobile software. Yes, it’s largely a collection of tweaks, improvements, and fiddling with a tried and true formula, but it’s also one that–for the first time–breaks iOS devices apart from computers running Apple’s iTunes software and [...]
