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Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. The Barnes & Noble Nook is not due to be shipping for a few days yet, but it seems they have already run out of the initial production run . It is being reported that ...
Computing
Kindle
The week marches on and today being Saturday means it is time to recap the recent happenings in the world of Windows Mobile. The Windows Marketplace for Mobile only launched for phones running WM 6.5 a week ago, but this week it hit all phones running WM 6.x. Those with phones running WM 6.0 or ...
Phones
Windows Mobile
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Although I promised myself I wasn’t going to spend time running Google’s Chrome OS right now, I got the bug. Thanks to gdgt who put an image together , I’ve spent about 15 minutes tinkering with it in VirtualBox. Chrome OS is definitely bare-bones right now and slow in ...
Computing
Google Chrome OS
What the hackintosh community brings, Apple taketh away. And the hackintoshers then put it back. With the 10.6.2 Mac OS X update, Apple removed support for Intel Atom CPUs, so all of those netbooks running Snow Leopard lost their spots. A modified kernel brings back support, says MacWorld , ...
Computing
Intel Atom
Mac OS X
I tested Apple’s Magic Mouse with Windows 7 not long after I bought the device a few weeks ago . It paired through Bluetooth with no issues as expected, and works well, but lost was the scrolling I enjoy with a finger flick on my MacBook. Obviously, it’s a driver issue and I never ...
Computing
Bluetooth
Windows 7
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Matt’s back from möbius with a handset rundown ...
Phones
HTC HD2
Google Chrome OS
Early this year, I got my hands on a Pogoplug . This small device aligns with my “pesonal cloud” theory by easily turning any USB drive into a hybrid device — data is available locally on the drive and remotely over the web. Today, Cloud Engines introduces the next generation ...
Other
Friday is here, time to take a step back from the hurried happenings in Mobile Tech Manor and look back at the week. Some gear went back where it came from and other gear arrived for play evaluation. I experimented with alternative e-book readers to get a feel for what I like best before all ...
Computing
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts:
TomTom for iPhone gets voicevoice ( TomTom ) — $99 for an iPhone navigation app is a bit steep for me, but there are some new features to help justify the cost. New ...
Phones
TomTom
Motorola
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Google’s Chrome OS might have the focus today , but Qualcomm made sure that people don’t forget about Android. The company showed off a smartbook concept made by Quanta and powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform . Although this is the same ...
Phones
Android
Google Chrome OS
Oh no he didn’t take the 18.4-inch Acer Aspire 8940G notebook to the local coffee shop. Oh yes he did, and it’s been an adventure from the get-go. First up, I had to find a bag at Mobile Tech Manor that the giant laptop would fit in and close. I must have tried 5 or 6 bags before ...
Computing
Acer Aspire
It is Thursday and that means it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. The Pixi has only been selling for a short bit but you can already pick one up at Amazon for $25 . Yes, you read that right, $25. Palm and Sprint should just go ahead and give the ...
Phones
Google held their developer and press event today to show off the upcoming Google Chrome operating system . The source code for Chrome OS is open source and available as of today, so theoretically, you can build your own Chrome OS. However, the actual release isn’t planned until ...
Computing
Google Chrome OS
The Verizon Droid is soon to be returned to the kind folks there who sent me this evaluation phone so it’s time for a video look at the phone. The Droid is the Android 2.0 slider that is thin and light, and sports an industrial design bent. In the video I show the responsiveness of ...
Phones
Verizon
Android
I’m on a bit of a camera kick this morning. Just after I scored a $299 Panasonic 1080p camcorder from Amazon today, I caught Sal Cangeloso’s thoughts about BorrowLenses.com – a camera lens rental service. I’ve been using my Canon EOS Rebel T1i for months, but only ...
Cameras
Canon
Yesterday, Google introduced a Gmail Labs feature that tells you if your friends are online using an Android device . I can definitely see some benefit to this — before even sending an instant message to someone, you gain a little context of that person’s mobility. And that can ...
Phones
Android
I was working away this morning, minding my own business, when a tweet sent to me and @Gartenberg got me thinking. The Twitter conversation was about reading e-books, and @AppGeniusBar asked us the question that got it all started:
@Gartenberg @jkendrick Have u imagined spending at least 12 ...
Other
Using Gmail on a Mac? Then you may already know about Mailplane — if not and you’re looking for an email client to use with Gmail, Mailplane is worth the look. The standalone software integrates seamlessly with multiple Gmail accounts and can make email wrangling far less of a ...
Other
Did you buy one of those geeky Smartpens from Livescribe and are now looking for more things to do with it? There’s an app store for that. The Smartpen is a digital pen that captures handwritten notes in a format that can be used in a variety of ways. The new store has apps that range ...
