Amazon is sprucing up its Kindle e-reader bringing in touch screen start up company Touchco by way of an acquisition. It is expected that the Touchco’s interpolating force-sensitive resistance technology that allows for flexible, transparent and pressure-sensitive touch-screens would be soon be injected into the Kindle hardware operations.
The iPad is everyone’s mind and shopping list. Even as the whole world seems to be waiting for the first Apple iPad to start shipping, here comes yet another piece of wonderful news. The grapevine has it that Apple has already started building a new advanced version of the iPad and that it would sport Mac OS X.
Is there something missing from Apple’s approach to connecting consumers to content? We are talking of the latest iPad. If you haven’t thought about it, here’s Adobe’s take on that. Adobe group manager Adrian Ludwig has written in his blog that “there’s something important missing from Apple’s approach to connecting consumers to content” when it comes to the company’s new iPad.
Tablet PCs are in. More so, following the arrival of the Apple iPad! Though the iPad is promising to be on the shopping list of all you enthusiasts out there, there are other technology innovators too who are waiting in the wings with their new tablets. One major is Micro-Star International (or MSI as we know it). MSI is all set to roll out its new Nvidia Tegra-based tablet PC in the second half of 2010.
The hype seems to have given way to disappointment for Hollywood, with the Apple iPad falling short of the tinsel town’s expectations. It is being believed that executives in Hollywood had anticipated a device that could come about as a game changer for film and TV studios. However, for them at least, it has ended up as just another gadget that boasts of the computing functions of a laptop and an e-reader.
The tablet is arriving, and it seems like a few parents have started speculating on what it would bring to their kids. No doubt, the tablet will be a toy, a learning device and much more for the children of the world. While it is for sure that many kids would find it wonderful to have a larger screen where their iPod Touch apps would be magnified, many others would see it as a home-schooling tool too.
Would you buy an Apple tablet? This is the question doing the rounds even as the red carpet is ready for the device to debut. If you would go for it, how fast would you get one for yourself? VoucherCodes.co.uk asked the same question to many in the UK. The results make for interesting read. Among he 3,000 people that the survey team spoke to, as many as 54 per cent have said they would, of course, consider buying a tablet for their own. Read on for more revelations.