Mar 12
More clues are being discovered in hardware and software leading to speculation that the iPad can support a front-facing iSight camera.
According to PowerbookMedic’s blog, the site received photos of what are supposed to be the final revision iPad midframe. The pictures appear similar to the ones that MissionRepair released about a month ago.
More proof the Apple iPad could have built-in camera capacity.
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Mar 10
March 8, 2010 – After several weeks of speculation, Valve has finally confirmed that its digital distribution service for games, Steam, would be coming to Macs. The software serves as Valve’s exclusive digital delivery system for its suite of titles, including Team Fortress 2 and Portal, as well as an array of AAA titles from publishers like EA, Activision, Capcom and more. according to the announcement from Valve, the Mac variation of Steam will serve native Mac software, not inconsistent, processor-taxing emulators. The announcement of Steam for Mac marks a huge advancement for gaming on Apple computers, which had otherwise been perceived to be poor gaming machines. could this be the dawn of Mac gaming as a viable software platform?
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Mar 05
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that its new phone operating system is as different under the hood as it is to the eye.
in a blog post and at an event with a handful of journalists, the software maker said that those developing software for Windows Phone 7 Series devices will do so using either Silverlight or XNA, the toolset used to create Xbox games.
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Feb 17
We saw impressive renders of Notion Ink’s Adam last week, along with some speculation, but today we’re getting what’s probably the best look yet at this ambitious play into the tablet space.
The following specs, to be unveiled officially at MWC, are listed as “final” by the folks at Notion Ink:
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Feb 15
We saw impressive renders of Notion Ink’s Adam last week, along with some speculation, but today we’re getting what’s probably the best look yet at this ambitious play into the tablet space.
The following specs, to be unveiled officially at MWC, are listed as “final” by the folks at Notion Ink. Take some of it with a grain of salt, as they are grossly incorrect about items like accelerometer and touchscreen (chart provided by Notion Ink):
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Jan 31
After months of speculation, Apple has unveiled its tablet, called the iPad. the slim, large screen device evokes much of the same user interface as the iPhone, but it’s bigger and has some surprise features including Apple’s own custom chip.
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Jan 24
Speculation concerning the upcoming Apple Tablet computer is running rampant, so I might as well toss in my thoughts on the device, along with predictions of what it will actually do. this is all guessworkbut it’s based on market realities, recent Apple acquisitions, and off-hand comments by the company.
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Jan 18
Speculation about the Apple Tablet mostly focuses on what the device is, not how it functions. Text input, more than anything else, is the problem Apple needs to solve to make the concept work. So how will they do it?
CES was rotten with new tablets, some Android, some not, some with fascinating screens, and again, some not. but one thing they all had in common was that they hadn’t quite figured out the text input problem: How do you create text without a keyboard?
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Jan 17
An Apple lawyer has demanded that tech industry gossip site Valleywag end an offer to pay $100,000 to anyone who brings the site the long-anticipated Apple tablet computer.
Michael Spillner of the Silicon Valley, Calif., law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said in a letter that the Valleywag Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt amounts to the site offering a “bounty for the theft of Apple’s trade secrets.”
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Jan 16
Steve Ballmer’s keynote address at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics show (CES) did not unveil the rumored Microsoft Courier tablet PC. Ballmer did take the opportunity, though, to reveal an HP tablet PC dubbed the “Slate”.
The HP Slate was underwhelming, to say the least. Hailed by Ballmer as “something that’s almost as portable as a phone and that’s as powerful as a PC running Windows 7″, the demonstration showed a flat panel computing device that seemed more equivalent to a color Kindle than to a Windows 7 wonder-tablet.
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