ZBoard shreds competition at Spring Demo
What kind of West Coast innovation show worth its salt would miss the opportunity to unveil a new electric-powered skateboard?
Certainly not Demo Spring 2012 in Silicon Valley. No less than three new commuter skateboards were launched for street surfer...
SmartWatches and phones in pairing mode
It will take a lot to knock the iPhone off its perch as the best-selling smartphone. So, competitors are circling around its success and uniform design with different features, screen sizes and the odd gimmick. This week, a look at new pairings and p...
New Nook eReader glows in the dark
Barnes & Noble already produced the best pure eReader for me in the $99 Simple Touch, with its touchscreen, a great display that was never washed out by sunlight and two months of battery life, due to E Ink technology being used for its 6in black-a...
How Apple changed the publishing industry
United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices. The 36-page complaint filed on Wednesday is an ebook in its own right, in its pdf format, about how Apple cha...
Tablets bigger than expected – Gartner, Toshiba
Gartner upped its 2012 worldwide tablet sales forecast on Tuesday to 119m units, from the 103m it predicted last September and almost double its final figures for 2011 of 60m units.
The research firm predicted Apple would still dominate with a 61 per ...
Box OneCloud has silver lining for app developers
While cloud computing promises to simplify our lives by keeping our information in one readily accessible place online, it fails to deliver when clouds are scattered by users relying on too many different apps and services.
You may have photos spread ...
Tivo boosts boxes, lowers subscription
Tivo has lowered the monthly subscription to its DVR service, a move that may be aimed at stemming subscriber losses.
The company dropped its monthly service fee for its machines from $20, with a one-year commitment, to $15. It also raised the price of...
Shapeshifting PCs in a post-PC world
Last week I wrote about the new iPad, which Apple sees as the poster child of a post-PC world. Can the PC fight back? New contenders from the leading manufacturers – Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell – are staking their claims.
Broadcom a pathfinder on location
Broadcom is set to make indoor navigation easier and our online lives faster with two developments – the networking chipmaker is launching a new location-finding platform and acquiring the Israeli fibre-optics company BroadLink for $195m.
On a vi...
Apple iPad complaints seem like hot air
Apple must be wondering whether it was worth the improvements, particularly the addition of 4G LTE, to the new version of its iPad.
The extra mobile connectivity has earned the company plenty of criticism, despite it offering the opportunity to enjoy...
Apple’s dividend and buyback – how it happened
Apple has announced plans to pay a dividend and institute a share buyback programme as it deals with a cash mountain that has grown to more than $100bn.
The maker of the iPhone and iPad said it would begin with a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share, ...
Samsung = half of new iPad cost – IHS
Samsung and Apple may be locked in a smartphone and tablet war and concomitant patent disputes, but the Korean manufacturer may be responsible for more than half the cost in component terms of the new iPad, which went on sale on Friday.
A “teardown
