Samsung unveils Honeycomb-based Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus

Friday, September 30, 2011 in Tech News

Samsung added another tablet to their lineup today in the form of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. As the name suggests, Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch PLS (Super Plane to Line Switching) display operating at 1024 x 600 pixels running Android 3.2 Honeycomb and a 1.2GHz dual-core processor,...

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Adobe's Flash 11 coming soon with GPU-assisted 3D graphics engine

Thursday, September 22, 2011 in Tech News

Adobe's Flash Player is about to receive its largest update since the introduction of hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding in 2009. Version 11 of the software is set to go live early next month and will reportedly introduce a GPU-assisted rendering API called Stage 3D. Adobe claims...

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Google, Intel collaborate to release Android phones early 2012

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in Tech News

Intel and Google have announced a new partnership that will see low-powered Atom CPUs and their successors running with Google's Android platform as the chipmaker attempts to launch itself into the smartphone market. Intel executives stated at their annual developer conference on Tuesday that...

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Microsoft confirms Xbox Live integration on Windows 8

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in Tech News

Microsoft has re-confirmed that the company's Xbox Live service will be built into the next version of its desktop operating system. There are few details about the integration at this point, but according to a blog post by Microsoft's Director of Programming for Xbox, Live Larry...

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Lenovo presents IdeaPad A1 tablet with $199 starting price

Monday, September 05, 2011 in Tech News

Lenovo has added a new member to its growing Android tablet lineup. The IdeaPad A1 will be squarely aimed at the budget-conscious market with a starting price of just $199, and though it may not be a cutting-edge device, it offers quite a bit of features for the price. You'll get a 7-inch...

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Google To Shut Down 10 Products

Sunday, September 04, 2011 in Tech News

Google announced yesterday that it is closing a number of its current products and merging others into similar services. Many of them will continue to be available in the near future to facilitate the transition. The list of affected services includes Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Maps API for Flash,...

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