Research in Motion on Wednesday debuted five new BlackBerry smartphones featuring the new BlackBerry 7 OS. The new devices include the BlackBerry Torch 9810 (right), BlackBerry Bold 9900 (left), and BlackBerry Torch 9860 (center). Three of the devices will be available in the coming months from AT&T, while two will appear on Sprint. All [...]
Amazon.com Inc will launch a tablet computer this year to extend its position as the world’s largest Internet retailer, expand in mobile commerce and sell more digital goods, according to analysts and investors. Amazon plans to introduce a tablet with a 9-inch screen before October that will run on Google’s Android operating system, the Wall [...]
Amazon’s tablet may soon arrive in mass quantities, perhaps just in time to take on the rumored iPad HD. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, Amazon plans to ship at least one million tablets in the third quarter. If the report is accurate, that means Amazon has the most ambitious tablet plans of any iPad [...]
Apple’s App Store has passed more than 15 billion downloads, according to the company. Currently, the online storefront holds some 425,000 applications, including 100,000 native iPad applications. Apple also claims some 200 million devices are running iOS, its mobile operating system. That represents a considerable bar for rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Google, which also [...]
Have you been reading the headlines? There was a big earthquake in Haiti. Some men were rescued from a mine in Chile. Oh, and apparently there was a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What’s that you say? This all sounds like last year’s news? Well, don’t tell that to Hewlett-Packard. This week, it introduced [...]