One of the biggest complaints against Amazon's Kindle Fire device is you can't download apps directly from Google's Android Market unless you root it. You can also sideload apps onto the Fire, but by and large, the average user isn't savvy enough to venture away from Android's own App Store. Even so, Kindle Fire users are proving they're just as capable of consuming Android apps as anyone else, perhaps more so. [......]
Apple TV is still a hobby. [......]
Representative Darrell Issa, President of the Consumer Electronics Association Gary Shapiro, and Senator Ron Wyden In a press conference at CES in Las Vegas, Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) stood jointly with Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro to voice their opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act and Protect IP Act [......]
Rather than do a CES pre-round-up of exciting products I’d like to address this interesting slant on the whole "massive electronics trade show in the middle of the desert" concept that has kept the Gadgets crew here up for the past few weeks. MG said Apple won CES. He was being snide, but, in a way, honest because, in the end, nobody wins CES. [......]
The folks over at Lenovo have been busy unwrapping a bunch of new notebook models for its business customers, and two of the more interesting units are the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid and ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook. Both will be demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week before shipping off to retail later this year[......]
Digitimes , quoting "sources from upstream supply chains," is stating that PC manufacturers like Dell, Acer, and HP are building fewer tablet products in direct reaction to devices like the iPad , Kindle Fire, and Nook Tablet. Citing an inability to gain traction against devices with rich content to back them up, the manufacturers are looking elsewhere to regain a foothold in the mobile market. In truth, manufacturers know they won’t get far building vehicles for Android, Google Music notwithstanding[......]
Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead. There have been a few key stories from the past couple of weeks that highlight this new reality[......]
If the meek capitulation in the headline sounds uncharacteristic of Nvidia's infamously outspoken CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, it's probably because he's bitter. Though the GPU-focused company announced way back in 2008 that it was going to "open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel, very little has happened, at least on the consumer side. Intel and Nvidia have had some major differences, and remain fierce competitors, but it's been made clear that Intel won't tolerate anyone making a grab at its x86 treasure hoard[......]
Tablets, tellies and toys at IFA 2011 IFA - Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin - is the world's largest consumer electronics show, and this year's gadget frenzy has been particularly interesting. [......]
IFA 2011 has started in earnest, bringing some exciting new kit from some of the world's best known electronics giants. TechRadar is, of course, trekking around the show to bring you the brightest and best of the gadgets but this year we want to show you a little more. So, here's our video welcome to IFA 2011; Europe's biggest consumer electronics show[......]
One thing you won't catch Intel doing is dwelling on the past to the point where it paralyzes the Santa Clara chip maker from moving forward. Consider Intel's CULV (Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage) laptops, an experiment that flopped and could have left a permanent bad taste in Intel's mouth. Instead, Intel CEO Paul Otellini calls it a "trial run" for what comes next: Ultrabooks. [......]
Last week I tuned into a press preview of today's Lenovo announcement. It was an online presentation so, you know, I went on and did other things while half listening. I was nearly ready to close the tab after listening to 20 minutes of some product manager explaining every little detail about the consumer-oriented IdeaPad K1 Honeycomb tablet. [......]
Living in the cloud, are you? It's getting increasingly harder not to stick your head -- and your data -- in the cloud, and it's only going to get more difficult[......]
Between 1,000 different flavors of Android, iOS, QNX, Windows Phone 7, and every other operating system out there, it's not as if the mobile world is dire need of yet another OS. That's good, because if tablet and smartphone makers are waiting for Google's Chrome OS to be ported over, they better bet cozy, it could be a long wait. Speaking at the Computex trade show, a Google senior executive says the search giant is content to keep its Chrome OS on notebooks[......]
Your next light bulb may come from Samsung, according to this breathless press release, which announces that Samsung is fully committed to bringing LEDs to the common consumer. Samsung will apply its "deep marketing knowledge" to make their LED line popular here in the US. [......]
