I like some of the features from each of the tablet trio of iPad/Fire/Playbook. But each of them also infuriates me for different reasons.
Adobe and Google to bring Flash Player to Linux
February 22, 2012 Updated at 11:56 am
Adobe has announced that it, and Google will be partnering to bring Adobe Flash Player to Linux users. The move has been talked about in the recently released roadmap from Adobe for Flash runtimes.
Hot On The Heels Of Spotify, Rdio Expands Music Streaming To Spain, Portugal
February 22, 2012 Updated at 10:57 am
The landgrab for music streaming customers is on, and Rdio — the U.S.-based startup from Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis — is joining that race in earnest. The company today announced that it is now live in Spain and Portugal, just one month after it launched in its first European service, in Germany.
Free News Reader App Taptu Lets You Create News Streams From RSS, Twitter, Facebook and More [PlayBook]
February 21, 2012 Updated at 11:10 pm
The PlayBook is an awesome piece of hardware and one of the funnest things to do with your PlayBook, aside from playing some of the recently launched premium games, is to read. The PlayBook is novel size, making it a great reading device for news as well as eBooks.
Why Mountain Lion could blunt Android’s momentum
February 21, 2012 Updated at 6:35 pm
As we learned last week, Apple’s next version of OS X software for laptops and desktops is called Mountain Lion . I have been running it on my MacBook Air for the past two days, and it has already impacted my mobile device usage.
Barnes & Noble NOOK $199 tablet a godsend
February 21, 2012 Updated at 6:33 pm
Though Barnes & Noble’s earnings call appears to have turned up sour for the most part, the NOOK lineup may have saved the book company from going Borders way. Having tested the original NOOK Color out back at the start of 2011 when it was released, giving a run down through and through, I can comfortably say the following: $199 for an upgraded version in the NOOK Tablet is quite the deal.
Random startups are eating almost $14B in operator sales
February 21, 2012 Updated at 6:27 pm
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BlackBerry PlayBook updated to version 2.0, Android app support is live
February 21, 2012 Updated at 6:20 pm
We’ve been hearing about RIM’s efforts to bring an Android app emulator to their tablet platform for some time now. If the functionality had been included out of the box it may have saved the doomed PlayBook, but better late than never.
Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Update is Available Now, the Time for Android Apps has Come
February 21, 2012 Updated at 5:58 pm
I have to be completely honest about this – the Blackberry Playbook may still be my favorite tablet. While the lack of apps and features at initial release killed it before it even got its start, the UI that RIM has put together on a tablet makes more sense than most.
PlayBook’s Android app support explored
February 21, 2012 Updated at 5:33 pm
RIM’s PlayBook tablet has finally taken off its training wheels – after ten months of suckling at your smartphone – and it’s PlayBook OS 2.0 ‘s newfound Android abilities that are coming in for the most attention. The updated platform supports select Android apps, and efforts have been underway for some time figuring out which of the popular titles for Google’s platform will also play nicely on RIM’s tablet.