News tagged with touch
GPS phone offerings: Price is Nuvifone G60's downfall; Navigon is on the money
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 05, 2009 |
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GPS navigation is morphing from a cool luxury to just one more thing you expect out of a decent smart phone. But different phones approach the issue in different ways.
Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programs
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
New Urbanspoon app digs into restaurant reservations
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Something big is shaking at Urbanspoon, the Seattle company behind a hugely successful iPhone restaurant-finding application.
Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.
New from NASA, an iPhone application
Oct 23, 2009 |
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NASA is coming to the iPhone. The US space agency announced on Friday that it has created a free NASA application for the popular Apple smartphone and the iPod Touch.
Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.
Apple lets iPhone apps get down to business
Oct 17, 2009 |
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Apple said Friday that it is allowing businesses to sell content or services through applications given away for free at the iPhone maker's online App Store.
Touch screen gamble: which technology to use
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Prompted partly by the iPhone's phenomenal popularity, consumers are demanding and likely to get a wider range of touch screens on many more electronic devices.
For music buffs, Zune HD strikes right tune
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 15, 2009 |
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In the two years I've been reviewing gadgets, I've never tested Microsoft's digital music and video player, called the Zune. The device only accounts for a tiny fraction of the market, and it had always struck ...
E-reader sales soaring but Apple captures the buzz
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Sales of electronic book readers are booming, companies are jostling for a share of the fledgling market and Amazon's going global with the Kindle.
Amazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field ...
San Francisco tapping into tech-savvy citizens
Oct 02, 2009 |
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San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good.
mSpot streaming Hollywood movies to mobile phones
Sep 29, 2009 |
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US mobile entertainment company mSpot on Tuesday began offering full-length movies for streaming to mobile phones.
Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.
Apple App Store downloads hit two billion mark
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Apple announced Monday that more than two billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store, just five months after hitting the one-billion download mark.
