Posted on 09 December 2010
I’m surprised that Intel have been allowed to announce partner names but in a presentation at the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference, Paul Otellini has done just that and highlighted that Windows, MeeGo and Android will be on Atom next year. The report comes via CNet who tracked the live audio from the conference [...]
Tags: android, atom, intel, meego, moorestown, tablet
Posted on 08 December 2010
Google finally launched Chrome OS at a press event in San Francisco yesterday after first introducing the concept back in July of 2009. Its a straight forward idea, your browser is the operating system and you use web applications for your daily needs. On the surface Chrome OS is virtually identical to Google’s Chrome browser [...]
Tags: arm, chrome os, google, web browser, web store
Posted on 08 December 2010
It’s getting somewhat difficult to sort out the wheat from the chaff when it comes to low cost tablets now. For me, someone that has good devices knocking around, it’s even more difficult to find something that stands out. One device that has piqued my interest over the last few weeks though has been the [...]
Tags: android, archos 101, tablet
Posted on 07 December 2010
Yesterday, Google released the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) SDK. This marks the official release of the latest version of Android, which will be launched baked into the Nexus S. While Android 2.3 does bring a few welcomed improvements to the platform, it isn’t doing any major overhauling; looks like we’ll have to wait for Android 3.0 [...]
Tags: android, android 2.3, android 2.3 gingerbread
Posted on 06 December 2010
Google’s second “Nexus” phone has been pretty much fully revealed over the last few weeks, but has finally been made official today. While Google’s first Nexus phone (the Nexus One) was made in partnership with HTC, the second is a collaboration between Google and Samsung, resulting in the aptly named Nexus S (though, Nexus Two [...]
Tags: google, google nexus, google nexus s, samsung
Posted on 03 December 2010
I’ve always been puzzled as to why there isn’t an official Google Reader app on Android. I mean, Android has built-in RSS functionality, but why would they keep that separate from their massively popular and wildly useful Google Reader? When it comes down to it, I need to have my RSS solution synced across all [...]
Tags: android, google, google reader