The picture says it all on this one. On Black Friday, Barnes & Noble will be selling its highly-rated Nook Simple Touch for $79. That’s a $20 price drop and matches the price of Amazon’s entry-level non-touch, ad-supported Kindle With Special Offers. The Nook Simple Touch has no ads. The company is calling it a …

Justin thinks Android is still to complex for beginners, Antuan says nice things about Apple, and someone crams a whole Android-based computer onto a USB key. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 74: Is Android too complex for your mom? 55:14 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe: iTunes (MP3) | iTunes (320×180) | iTunes (640×360) RSS (MP3) | RSS (320×180) | RSS …

Samsung has a new ad that pokes fun at Apple, and in particular the enthusiastic Apple fans who queue up to buy new iGadgets on day one. We’ve embedded the video below, so scroll down to check it out for yourself. The ad doesn’t mention Apple by name, but sees a gaggle of trendy youths queueing around the corner at …

LG recently announced the results of an Australian preference test, conducted in Westfield shopping centres, where viewers strongly preferred their Cinema 3D TVs over competitors’ 3D experiences. Now, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, Sony has sent legal threats to LG, challenging the test results, and claiming that it would be misleading to use these results as the basis for …

Sony has typically been a peg or two more expensive than its rivals but is now producing some value-conscious, high-enough-quality screens. The Sony EX523 series is an example of a television with a decent feature set and image quality that stands up well against the competition. The main difference between the EX523 and the EX520 it replaces is onboard Wi-Fi. …

If you’re thinking of picking up a Blu-ray player this holiday season, the buying process can be overwhelming. The differences between different models are often minor; every manufacturer supports a difference suite of streaming-media services and they all pretty much look the same. And a lot of the information you need to make an informed choice isn’t readily apparent by …

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have made e-readers and now tablets so inexpensive that almost anyone can get them, even poor students. But are these tablets up to the task of replacing those big, heavy college textbooks? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I try to answer that question. I help one mother who is considering getting either the Amazon …

Those who’ve managed to get their hands on the just-launched Samsung Galaxy Nexus may have spotted that it doesn’t come with the Adobe Flash Player installed — and that it can’t even be downloaded from the Android Market. Don’t worry though, because that’s the way it’s meant to be — at least for now. Google has informed SlashGear that Adobe …

Rumours of a Facebook phone are swirling once again, as everyone’s favourite place to poke and play FarmVille is reportedly heavily involved with a new HTC phone — codenamed Buffy. Nerdgasm name aside, Buffy is reported by AllThingsD to run a customised version of Android, modified by the folks at Facebook to build social features into various aspects of the …

These days, mobile broadband is more than capable of streaming live TV to your phone. But while there are some really good web-based services like TVCatchup.com, there may be times when you want access to a channel that’s only available through your home TV signal (cable, satellite or Freeview). Or it may be that you’d like to access UK television …

Earlier in the month news came that Flash was dead for mobile devices; and this seemed confirmed over the weekend when it was revealed Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus doesn’t ship with it installed. You can’t even download it from Android Market. But it looks like that’s set to change. Adobe has confirmed to Pocket-lint it intends to bring Flash to Android …

As you can imagine, there are tons of Black Friday apps in the Android Market, most of which do the same thing–aggregate holiday sale items. Sure, you can download them all to make sure you’ve got your bases covered, but we’re thinking you probably don’t want to be fumbling through an unwieldy app drawer while throwing elbows in department store …

Adidas’ miCoach app has been available for about a year now, helping track your training using a sensor, a little like Nike+. A new footie app game based on the tech — miCoach Football — has just launched, reports Pocket Gamer, and the more exercise you get, the stronger your in-game characters become. So unless you want a thrashing, you’d …

A lot of people thought Mirasol, Qualcomm’s once-promising color display technology with e-ink-like properties, was dead in the water. But now we get word that Kyobo Book Centre, Korea’s largest bookseller, has announced the retail availability of the first Mirasol e-reader. Simply called the Kyobo e-reader, it looks a lot like the Mirasol prototypes that have been floating around for …

The growth of Android has been rapid and startling over the last year. We’re at the point where 200 million devices have now been activated, with 550,000 more flying off the shelves every day. What’s more, hundreds of thousands of apps are now available in the Android Market. So which ones deserve to have their icons nestling on your home …