The scenery of the passengers waiting for flights have changed dramatically in the recent years. While newspapers and magazines were the dominant choices in the past, the trend has shifted to smartphones and/or tablet PCs. Although these new gadgets provide limitless choice of killer-applications, spending too much time on it can kill the battery and it can do it fast. CNet introduced Jung.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is an amalgam of a million different product demos, press events and fleeting snapshots in time. As reporters, we can cover the show as it unfolds in real-time, but we can’t really make sense of the spectacle until a few days have passed — and even then we need to steal a few moments of quiet reflection. This year, we Gadget Lab.
On the eve of Apple’s highly anticipated foray into digital textbooks, the e-textbook wars are heating up. Chegg, best known for selling and renting physical textbooks through the mail, will on Wednesday announce a new way for students to buy and rent textbooks to read online. Its Web-based tool is a little less glitzy than other app-based digital textbook offerings. Those, from companies.
Rather than foretelling any great ground shift, more often than not industry projections published by research firms tend to paint a picture of more of the same. Juniper Research’s latest take on the mobile market, for instance, suggests the culture of free-to-play releases currently taking hold of the industry isn’t going to go away. Rather, as users become more acclimatised.
Notoriously, Apple has very hard lines when it comes to incentivised actions – certainly when it comes to incentivised downloads. Facebook, however, is happier to embrace some aspects of the business model. Indeed, it’s now relaxing previous restrictions, allowing developers to create offerwalls that use their own in-game currency, alongside official Facebook Credits. Paid to.
And so it begins… Another week, another year, at the coal face of PG.biz: the home of news and views on the business of app stores, smartphone platforms, developments in mobile game making and assorted technology. So let’s start with some numbers from the turn of the year. Clearly, the folk at Flurry don’t take holidays, updating its blog on Boxing Day to inform us that 6.8.
One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit that has been on a multi-year crusade to bring inexpensive computers to developing countries, has joined the tablet trend. The organization and chip supplier Marvell Technology are using next week’s Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate the XO 3.0, a tablet-style computer designed to stand up to rugged classroom use in places where sunlight is plentiful.
Rumors of a March launch for Apple’s third-generation iPad with a high-resolution Retina Display have been deemed “completely accurate,” though a claim that Apple will launch an “iPad 4″ this October was written off as “completely made-up nonsense.” John Gruber of Daring Fireball issued a response on Friday to a new report fromDigiTimes that.
With rumours that even Apple is looking at lowering the entry point prices of its tablet range, it’s predictable that other manufacturers are looking to board the sub-$350 tablet train too. Especially after the Amazon Kindle Fire cried ‘all-aboard’ with its $199 asking price. Acer is one such manufacturer, with its 10-inch, 1280 x 800 resolution, Iconia Tab A200 tablet.
