Adobe’s Flash, I’m sad to say, is dying. The multimedia platform that revolutionised the internet with its animation, scripting and video playing capabilities is struggling to stay alive purely because of Apple’s complete disrespect for the company that gave them their flagship product, Photoshop. In Adobe’s continuing struggle to maintain its hold on the internet, it...
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With HP’s recent purchase of Palm, an issue as to what OS to use on their tablet devices has arisen. Many other tablet manufacturers are sticking to either Android or Windows; there is no worry for them. HP’s situation is unique in that they have recently received rights to Palm’s webOS operating system which is...
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Good news on the Android front, Google have given the word that we can expect to start seeing demonstrations of Android 3.0 as early as December. Of course it’s not exactly the news we want to hear, we’d love to hear it’s coming tomorrow but it’s something. Even though we may see demonstrations and feature lists...
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Recently plans showing that Amazon are intending to create their own competitor to the Android Market Place app, hosting applications for download with exactly the same intend as Google. So it comes as no surprise that Amazon have made a little more investment into their Android promotion schemes. Amazon’s Android 101 was launched not too long...
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When we first heard about the Acer Aspire One D255, we knew it was going to be something special as there has been a lot of netbooks based off of its design, as they say ‘imitation is the best form of flattery’. The chassis of the D225 has not seen a change since the previous D250,...
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Netbooks are designed to be cheap; they use low cost parts to make the device as low priced as possible. The recent trend has been to focus on creating higher performance components that have made the price of the netbook higher than it was ever originally intended; Augen have gone back to basics. Augen, a company...
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2010 has given birth to a new era of mobile computing; the tablet PC, a long pursued dream of computing, frequently portrayed in science fiction such as Star Trek. But what does this mean for the netbook? Market research has shown that the release of tablet PCs such as the iPad have had a negative impact...
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