A new commercial for the Galaxy Note which aired during today’s Super Bowl continues Samsung’s current trend of mocking Apple and their fans at every opportunity. With more singing, dancing and theatrical tomfoolery than an episode of Glee, Samsung’s Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad (again) takes aim at Apple line-waiters, but fails to really sell [...]
It’s nearly impossible to figure out how many Kindle units Amazon sells during any selected period. The online retailer is notoriously vague about its product sales, and that’s certainly been the case with its recently-launched Kindle Fire. Amazon issued a press release last month saying that the retailer had sold more than one million Kindles [...]
Flurry reported late last week that on Christmas day alone, 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated, a 353 percent increase over the average of the first 24 days of December. Today, the firm posted an even more impressive record breaking number, the number of applications downloaded during the final week of 2011. More [...]
Hopefully you didn’t grab the Sony Tablet S during the holiday rush, because Sony has just cut the slate’s price by $100. Beginning today, the 16GB Tablet S model starts at $399, undercutting the Apple iPad 2 by a significant amount. The 32GB model now starts at $499. Sony is additionally offering five free PlayStation [...]
Google has apparently pulled an application which represented itself as Siri, Apple’s revolutionary voice command software, from the Android Marketplace. Siri imitators have swarmed the Android marketplace since Apple launched their latest handset, the iPhone 4S. This particular app was taken down, however, because it represented itself as Siri, in violation of an Apple copyright. [...]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has hinted at the release of an official Google Nexus tablet sometime in the next 6 months, stating that Google plans to release “a tablet of the highest quality” in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sea. The development and release of a Google Nexus tablet will be directly [...]
It looks like Amazon is working on two new flavors of its wildly popular Kindle Fire. DigiTimes is reporting that the company is already hard at work developing both 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch versions of the Fire. According to the report, the 8.9 inch iteration could be available as soon as the end of second quarter [...]
Google announced yesterday the launch of a new music service in partnership with three major record companies, an application that will directly compete with iTunes and Amazon to sell music and allow access to content from any computer or Android device. Google Music, however, goes a step farther than its competitors. The new service allows users to share entire tracks with friends [...]
When Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet ships next week, users will instantly have access to many popular apps that the company has specifically tested on the new tablet. Favorites ranging from Pandora and Facebook to Twitter and Netflix will be available from day one via one click payment in the Amazon Appstore. “We started talking to [...]
Millennial Media, a popular mobile advertising platform, released its quarterly ‘Mobile Mix Report’ early yesterday morning. According to the report, Android based devices accounted for more than 56 percent of mobile advertisement impressions across the Millennial Media ad network in the third quarter of 2011, doubling up on Apple’s iOS operating system. Android powers 15 [...]
A preview copy of Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of Steve Jobs’ life has been obtained by The Associated Press, who reported on some of the book’s highlights. Among them, are the details of a meeting between Steve Jobs’ and Google’s Eric Schmidt that showed Jobs’ furious reaction to the release of a 2010 HTC Android [...]
LibreOffice, a free and open source office suite, offers many of the same features found in Microsoft Office. In fact, users can use LibreOffice to view and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on just about any computer. Now The Document Foundation is planning to port LibreOffice to iOS and Android, which will allow smartphone [...]
Software maker Nuance Communications has bought out Swype, the popular Android text input method, for more than $100 million, according to Uncrunched. Nuance is the maker of the T9 predictive text software found almost every mobile phone since the 90s. Swype, on the other hand, is the producer of a virtual Qwerty keyboard for smartphones that [...]
Amazon will be down more than $10 before each new owner boots up their newly purchased Kindle Fire and begins purchasing digital content. That’s because the Fire, priced at just $199, costs about $210 to produce, according to IHS iSuppli. The research firm noted yesterday that Amazon’s bill of materials for their incoming tablet is [...]
Amazon isn’t the only major corporation making tablet news today. Barnes and Noble is preparing to make two additions to their Nook tablet line, according to documents obtained by The Digital Reader. The leaked document lists three eReader devices as part of Barnes and Noble’s fourth quarter plans, including the $139 Nook Touch and two [...]
