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While I’m focusing primarily on emerging technologies at CES 2012, you can’t get around the fact that some staples in the tech world take center stage. This year, the three categories that are getting a lot of early attention are ultrabooks, TVs and tablet computers. But which ones will have staying power and which ones will fade away before even hitting store shelves?
When it rains, it pours. August tends to be a slow month for tech news. As the month began, it looked like this year would follow the trend as tech bloggers and reporters wait for the inevitable plunge toward the holiday shopping season. But some recent events really generated a lot of news in the technosphere. So much news, in fact, that I need to summarize several stories to catch up.
I’ve been pretty good about keeping a level head so far, Google. When you launched Android, I was excited to see an open(ish) smartphone operating system hit the market. I bought into the philosophy and believed you when you said it would drop the barrier between developers and the platform. Unlike with Apple, developers wouldn’t have to endlessly tweak their apps to vague and sometimes hidden guidelines in order to get a spot in the marketplace. But reality hasn’t quite panned out the way you hinted at a few years ago. And now you’re about to make it harder for customers to decide what product to buy.
Here’s is Apple’s official launch page: iPad 2 – “Two cameras for FaceTime and HD video recording. The dual-core A5 chip. The same 10-hour battery life. All in a thinner, lighter design. Now iPad is even more amazing. And even less like anything else.” More details and pricing: Apple Unveils Thinner, Faster iPad 2 Apple [...]
This week Nvidia announced its latest Tegra processor for Tablet computers and smartphones. The chip has 4 cores, which appears to be a first in this class of CPUs. This gives it unprecedented power, as demonstrated in this video: Here is what it means in real terms – the ability to drive 1440p displays: “We [...]
Until yesterday, if you wanted a tablet computer, you had three options for the operating system: Apple, Android and Windows 7. Today there is a fourth option: WebOS. This is an operating system developed by Palm before HP bought Palm last year. HP has dropped WebOS into a new tablet computer called the TouchPad: Quick [...]
Sprint has demonstrated a new dual screen cell phone – apparently the first phone of this type to hit the market. It is called the Kyocera Echo as seen here: The video above shows that it has three modes: closed (looks like a normal smartphone), tablet mode and PC mode. It is priced similarly to [...]
The news is all over the place but I heard it first on engadget: Sony has unveiled a new gaming platform for Android-based devices called PlayStation Suite. The platform is a PlayStation emulator that will allow users to play PlayStation games (from the original PlayStation) on phones and tablets. There will be touchscreen controls for devices that don’t have physical keyboards. New games designed specifically for PlayStation Suite are soon to follow.
This is funny… …but it leaves you wanting to know what Motorola will be announcing, and CES is about 2 weeks away. What can we expect? This post contains a video that is revealing: And this page offers some predicted specs: Here is what we know about it so far (according to rumor). It will [...]
What can we expect to be coming down the technology pipe in 2011 and in 2015? The following article offers a view of the technological change we can expect in the computer realm next year. What will “home computers” and laptops look like in 2011? It is a very impressive list of changes: The Tipping [...]
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