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Android Apps – Multitask With Transparent Screen
Transparent Screen is an Android app that is amazingly straightforward in principle – it simply lets you see where you’re walking by making the view from your camera the background image for the Android operating system. Thus you can surf or do anything else with your phone, like Tweet or check sales figures, while walking [...]
Android Bouncer Flexes Muscles
Until very recently Google took a relaxed (some would say complacent) approach to app screening and security in the Android Market. In December, Google pulled a small number of apps from the marketplace, for example for misleading consumers via effectively ‘hidden’ charges, details of which were tucked away deep in the inner screens of apps. [...]
Women interested in gadgets
The most obvious concession to the female half of humanity in the tech world is the garish pink plastic version of various gadgets. The rest of the consumer electronics market is aimed largely at the male buyer, but a CEA study (by the same folks who put on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas [...]
Apple pushes iPad 2 to businesses
Tablets are becoming increasingly popular in business sector. Business was always dominated by Microsoft mainly because of their business software. With iOS apps working microsoft apps iPad is stepping in as the tool of choice for many different businesses. Retail industry, manufacturing, even health care quickly adopted tablets as the most convenient and handy portable [...]
Microsoft – Long-term Plans, new gestures, new technologies
Last week Microsoft revelaed it was working on integrating Kinect into notebook bezels, with tablets presumably to follow. The iPhone brought users touch-functionality, now Microsoft aims to forge a deeper understanding between man and machine via what it calls ‘Natural User Interaction’ or NUI. Apparently the new Kinect IR sensors will be able to lip-read, [...]
Android Chrome Browser – Review
Google has finally released a version of its Chrome browser for Android, although for the moment it’s limited to Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich OS). It’s pretty fast and it syncs everything you tell it to. Transition effects are cute and there is an intuitive system of hopping between tabs. Since appearing in 2008 [...]
Asus U56E – Review
Asus claims that the U56E is a high-performance, maximum battery-life machine which should equip buyers for the office, all for $800. It runs on an i5-2430M CPU with 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for storage. Yet machines with similar component lists are available. For direct comparison we suggest the Toshiba Satellite R850. The [...]
Packard Bell EasyNote TS13 – Review
The last generation EasyNote TS11 was already furnished with a Core-i5 Sandy Bridge CPU, and the TS13 upgrade boasts a similarly up-to-date spec list. The Intel i5-2450M processor inside the Packard Bell EasyNote TS13 features a base clock speed of 2.5GHz, rising to 2.8GHz in TurboBoost mode. That CPU is paired with a 2GB NVidia [...]
Acer Travelmate 8481TG – Review
The Acer Travelmate 8481TG is optimized for long battery life, sporting a low-voltage 1.6GHz Intel i5-2467M, and it can be configured with a faster 1.8GHz i7-2677M low-voltage CPU for even more performance, although the extra $400 being asked puts the Travelmate 8481TG into a higher, less justifiable price bracket, even with 8GB RAM instead of [...]
MacBook Pro – Upgraded
The 15-inch MacBook Pro was upgraded from from the original Intel Core i5 CPUs to incorporate the latest second generation Sandy Bridge technology. MacBook Pros, whether 15- or 17-inch, now all ship with quad-core i7 chips. Our $2199 test unit had a 2.2GHz quad-core Intel i7 processor, with 4GB RAM and 750GB of 5400rpm hard [...]
