Netflix And The Weinstein Company Enter Into Their First Multi-Year Streaming Deal
Netflix streaming just got a bit more classy. The Weinstein Company is releasing “a diverse slate” of its titles exclusively to Netflix streaming. These titles will hit the service within a year of their theatrical release and will include foreign language films, documentaries and other hits from TWC. This is the first deal between TWC [...]
It’s On: 8GB Nook Tablet Takes Aim At Kindle Fire With $199 Price Tag
While initial reports pointed at a launch on February 22, Barnes & Noble has just taken to the wires to officially announce the release of the new 8GB Nook Tablet. As expected the new Nook variant has a price tag to match its reduced memory capacity, and with both now selling for $199 the battle [...]
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Amazon Steals 14% Tablet Market Share In Q4, Apple Share Drops To 57%
We’ve known since the Fire first debuted that it would create some competition for Apple’s iPad, which has dominated the market since it arrived. But today iSuppli has offered up a little insight into just how fierce the competition really is.
According to the research firm, Apple’s market share in the tablet arena dropped from [...]
Toy Fair 2012: Locomotion
Yesterday I went to the 2012 Toy Fair, and to be honest I was really disappointed. I’m 23 years old, and I’d estimate that 90 percent of what I saw yesterday was a variation of a toy I played with as a child. My 50-year old parents might even say the same thing. There were [...]
Puzzazz Brings Simple Handwriting Recognition To Kindle Touch
Seattle-area startup Puzzazz began as a creator of online, mobile, and e-book puzzles. But they’ve established a new core technology that might end up being a bigger draw than their Sudoku apps. They call it TouchWrite, and it lets you draw letters and numbers directly on the screen instead of tapping them on the on-screen [...]
Apple Yanks The iPad Off Of Amazon’s Chinese Shelves, But Why?
If for some reason you were to mosey on over to Amazon’s Chinese website and perform a search for the iPad, you know what you’d find? No iPad.
Now, you might think to yourself, “Wow, Proview pulled it off,” but that’s not the case at all. In fact, an Amazon spokesperson said that the Apple [...]
Motorola Droid 4 Review: Head-To-Head With The Droid 3 And iPhone 4S
As you’ll notice quite quickly from this infographic, we’re pitting the Droid 4 against its predecessor, the Droid 3, along with the iPhone 4S. For anyone who isn’t a die-hard Android fan, the iPhone 4S usually comes into the equation when it comes time to upgrade hardware. Since many of our reviews will be of [...]
Meet Samsung’s First Android 4.0 Tablet: The 7-Inch Galaxy Tab 2
Samsung is no slouch when it comes to producing smaller tablets — their first foray into the Android tab market was the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, and they recently revisited that form factor with the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. In fact, Samsung seems to love the concept of a 7-inch tablet so much that they have [...]
Apple is testing eight-inch iPad, says WSJ
Following their report last night that AT&T and Verizon will be carrying the LTE iPad 3, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is currently testing an 8-inch iPad in their labs. While they’re not exactly sure the version will launch, they do say it’s in fact being tested.
Officials at some of Apple’s suppliers, who declined [...]