Rumoured Apple Tablet May Change Publishing Forever.

We are standing in front of a possible paradigm shift in publishing.  Publishers have recognized for a while the benefits of dropping paper to distribute electronically.  In the past few decades the publishing model has scaled down from dedicated printing shops, to desktops, to blogs, to 140 characters of Twitter text.
Content we read on paper, whether it be newspapers, books or ads appears more professional than content we read online.   Most of us still trust paper more then web.  This is hopefully all going change soon.
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Looking Ahead: Google Chrome OS

In lieu of tomorrow’s impending Chrome OS announcement from Google, it worth looking at the buzz that is abound across the net. After all, the search engine that could, has been successful in nearly all their innovative ventures thus far. Gmail, Google Maps, Android, Chrome; from email to internet browser, Google has succeeded in nearly every software release and service launch, and every one has, in some way, been at the expense of their predecessor: Microsoft. After all, Gmail corrected some of the gross oversights in Hotmail, a move that eventually forced Redmond to up their ...

Sezmi Preps a Cable competitor

It’s a tumultuous time to be in the cable and satellite business. Perhaps it began with the release of TV shows on DVD, but ever since people have had a taste of commercial-free, on –demand entertainment, few have looked back. The logical reaction, which was slow to come, was for cable companies to stream their popular shows online. The unintended but unavoidable side effect was a drop in television ad revenues. If you live in Canada, you’ve likely been bombarded by the fallout; cable companies squabbling with networks over revenues; a battle of words that has so ...

The Palm Pixi

When the iPhone first came out Apple was careful to release a low as well as high-end version of the would-be super-success. They did so by (over) commodifying storage space in an effort to create a somewhat artificial hierarchy, one easily undermined by the simple addition of an SD card reader. Nevertheless, it created the impression that there was an entry-level iPhone and it’s structure that has served Cupertino well over these past few years. So when Palm announced that they would be releasing a value-version in conjunction with the Pre, more than a few heads ...

The Best of the Best and Worst of the Worst

A look at Time’s Top 50 Best Inventions of 2009.

Oh, what a year! Sky rockets in flight, game controllers to track flailing limbs, and the 3D digital camera. Yes, the recession may have stifled the average Jane and Joe, but tech companies have been hard at work crafting the future. Some for the better, some for the worse.

At the top of list is NASA with their Ares rockets. Deemed by Time Magazine to be the best invention to come out of 2009, this revolutionary rocket rectifies many of the shortcomings ...

Dell Zino HD

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t’s tiny. It’s potent. And it’s cheap. The Zino HD from Dell offers a lot of power for a little cash. This 8x8 PC is being billed by Dell as the ideal addition to the living room as an entertainment console and High-Def go to that doesn’t require a Blu-Ray player (seriously, high definition belongs on a hard drive). But, like most Dell’s, the performance is scalable and the scant $230 entry-level entry fee represents a rather tame HD experience.

At the low end Dell is offering AMD Athlon Neo X2 6850e processor, Windows ...

Gadget Addiction Round-Up: Microsoft Edition

Zune HD Gets Gamey

You’ve got an NVIDIA Tegra processor, oodles of music, and some videos. It ain’t exactly a recipe for maximizing your assets. And so it’s high time some developers took advantage of the raw power. Six new titles were recently released, some of which were designed to push the Zune’s graphic, certainly more so than the first round of 2D throw-away titles. Games like Lucky Lane Bowling and Vans Sk8: Pool Service actually add a degree of replayability, while upping the ante in visuals department. ...

ViewSonic’s VPD400 “MovieBook”

First there was the Notebook, and for a time, things were good. Then there was the Netbook, and for a time, things were good. And now, courtesy of the ViewSonic, makers of fine computer monitors the world over, comes…the MovieBook!

Billed by ViewSonic as “the next generation of the ultimate, all-in-one portable entertainment experience,” this well-priced addition to the mobile movie player market is well suited to capitalize on a very specific demographic. But before delving into where it succeeds, we need to first take ViewSonic’s marketing team back to school with a little ...

HTC’s Touch HD2

Early reviews are portraying this technological powerhouse as Icarusian figure. After all, the HD2 looks amazing from the point of view of a spec sheet. But as the young boy proved all those millennia ago, great ideas can only be measured by their execution. And putting the raw power of a 1Ghz 4.3-inch touchscreen device in the hands of an inept operating system is about as tragic a conclusion you can have (in consumer products, that is).

HTC has slowly but surely been building a new for itself as a company that is not satisfied with maintaining the status quo in the handset department. ...

The State of the App Store

While the rest of the world is going in for a check-up and a booster, it’s high time Cupertino’s burgeoning software store had an examination of its own. After all, the highly exclusive storefront has now surpassed the 100, 000 mark. What once started as a home for flatulence simulators and lighter emulators (though sadly few combining the two) has now evolved into…what?

Yes, one hundred thousand apps is quite impressive an impressive figure. But as any software developer worth their salt will tell you, its quality, not quantity that matters. And while ...