If you thought Amazon’s Kindle Fire was about to own the budget end of the tablet market, you might want to take a look at this. Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper model of iPad, according to an analyst. It’s just a rumour at the moment, but does make some quite interesting reading nonetheless. The …
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October, 2011
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14 October
Get 50GB of free cloud storage with Box.net for iOS
Looking for a boatload of free cloud storage? If you own an iDevice, you can score 50GB of it, no strings attached. That’s the deal being offered by Box.net: 50GB of online storage for anyone who installs the Box.net app on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Pad. (Sorry, Android users–not sure why you’re being left out.) The app itself is …
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14 October
CTIA’s fall show fights for relevancy
While the fall version of CTIA in San Diego did not prove to be the boring slow show that we thought it would be, it still didn’t exactly wow us. Part of the reason was the timing of the show this year was almost incomprehensibly bad: not only is the iPhone 4S launching in the same week, but two of …
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14 October
How high should I put my TV? (Morrison’s Mailbag)
CNET reader Ryan M. writes: For a 64-inch plasma, how tall of a stand should I buy? I like this stand that’s 32″ off the ground (whereas most stands are 22″ off the ground). Do you think that if my line-of-sight is, say, 1/5 of the way up from the screen, I should be okay? I’d hate to have the …
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13 October
Samsung attacks Apple in Australia
Strewth, mate — the legal battle between Samsung and Apple has spread down under. Samsung has turned to the Australian courts to challenge Apple’s worldwide assault on its products. Korean giant Samsung has told California-based Apple to “rack off”, possibly adding, “you dags”. Sammy accuses Apple of infringing its patents with the iPhone and iPad, in response to Apple’s claims …
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13 October
Why Microsoft missed a golden opportunity at CTIA
Oh, Microsoft. It’s no secret that I think you could and should do more to win hearts and minds over to Windows Phone’s cause. I proclaimed it loudly a year ago, and I’ll say it again today. By relying solely on your partner manufacturers to trot out your few Windows Phones this CTIA, you’ve missed another golden opportunity for showing …
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13 October
Mobile devices increasingly bridging work, personal lives
SAN DIEGO–If you still can’t use your own iPhone or Android smartphone for work, things may be changing. At least, that’s the intention of a lot of companies who gathered here this week for the CTIA Enterprise & Applications conference. One of the bigger themes of this year’s show was getting businesses to jump on the “bring your own device” …
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13 October
How to track and control Samsung Galaxy devices remotely
Screenshot by Ed Rhee If you’re paranoid about getting your Samsung Galaxy device stolen or losing it, Samsung has a great free service that should help you feel more at ease. The service, called SamsungDive, allows you to track, lock, ring, and wipe your Galaxy tablets remotely. Galaxy smartphone owners can also forward calls/messages and retrieve call logs. Here’s how: …
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13 October
iOS 5 Newsstand is one small, small step for digital magazines
I’ve been reading magazines on my iPad for months. I didn’t need iOS 5 to do it. I keep these apps–The New Yorker, Wired–in a separate folder on my iPad, called Reading. With iOS 5, that’s no longer the case. A new baked-in app (or, rather, a type of smart folder) called Newsstand has now absorbed these apps into an …
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13 October
Pantech Jest 2, Pantech Hotshot hands
Now playing: Watch this: Pantech Jest 2 (Verizon Wireless) 0:50 SAN DIEGO–As we walked by the PCD booth here at CTIA, we noticed that Pantech had two phones up for display that we haven’t seen before. They were the Pantech Jest 2 and the Pantech Hotshot. The Pantech Jest 2 is slightly curvier and rounder than the Pantech Jest messaging …
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