It’s not an unequivocal “yes,” but an awkward “no comment” from a Google product manager may indicate that touch capability is being built intoChrome OS. At an event in London at Google’s headquarters attended by TechRadar, Senior Product Manager of Search Anders Sandholm “chuckled nervously” in response to the question of whether Chrome OS would include multitouch [...]
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Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. Social networks have truly come of age in the last year. No longer viewed as [...]
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Everyone’s got an opinion on Apple’s iPad, including Microsoft personnel and partners, and — big surprise! — they’re not enthusiastic. A couple reports quote Microsoft employees and and members of its partner network trotting out some familiar arguments: It’s a novelty item and not a real computer; Apple’s app development is locked down; and the very idea [...]
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Microsoft will discuss a new version of its Windows Mobile operating system next month at the Windows Mobile Congress in Barcelona, company representatives said during its earnings call on Thursday. “We’re working very hard on the next version of Windows Mobile,” said Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer. “We’ll be talking more about that in Barcelona in a [...]
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We can talk about the iPad as much as we want, but we all know that cold, hard sales numbers will do the real talking. When iPad lands in stores, if it doesn’t fly off the shelves, it will be further proof that Apple has made a rare stumble this time. AppleInsider rounded up some predictions [...]
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rubbish I’m pedalling about it helping sales of Windows 7? This is simple. Quite simply this time Apple have got it wrong. All the tech press is saying the same thing and comments made by readers of those websites are echoing, mostly anyway, their sentiments. The iPad is nothing more than a large iPod Touch. It’s [...]
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Warning: I am about to say some critical things about a device that, according to its creator, is both magical and revolutionary. If you’re the kind of person who thinks that Apple can do no wrong and that anyone who says otherwise is loco, proceed with caution. Still with me? Good. Like most tech enthusiasts, I’ve been [...]
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The new iPhone/iPad SDK brought us one very welcome detail: VoIP calls over 3G are no longer forbidden. The first company to capitalize on this change was iCall, and now another popular instant messaging/chat client, Fring, has enabled video and voice chat over a 3G connection. To be able to use this new feature, just fire up (or [...]
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It would seem those awfully proud Iphone users have made a port of Android’s amazing lockscreen. What happened to the Iphone being better then Android in every way possible? If so, then why do you need our lockscreen Iphone users? I personally got a good laugh out of this, considering Iphone users would always say [...]
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Motorola plans to launch a device with Google later this year that will be sold directly to consumers, the same strategy we saw with the Nexus One. According to TheStreet.com, the move was revealed in a conference call earlier today with Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha, who said the to-be-named device would be one of 20 smartphones the [...]
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