News tagged with touch
Review: Camera phones that let you snap and gab
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Pretty much any cell phone you'd buy today comes with a digital camera, but only a few are good enough to take the place of even a cheap point-and-shoot.
Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sony plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but fast-growing ...
The tablet PC could be Apple's next big thing
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Figuring out what Apple Inc. has in store for its next big product launch has become as popular a game as gathering to pick fantasy football drafts every fall.
TomTom GPS turn-by-turn app for iPhone now available for $99
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Yeah, this is one of the big reasons why I opted for the Pre, which comes with free turn-by-turn GPS.
Toward making smart phone touch-screens more glare and smudge resistant
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Scientists have discovered the secret to easing one of the great frustrations of the millions who use smart phones, portable media players and other devices with touch- screens: Reducing their tendency to ...
College e-textbooks go to class in iPhones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 11, 2009 |
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US and Canadian college students can pack textbooks into their pockets instead of spine-bending backpacks courtesy of an iPhone application released by CourseSmart.
Review: New Sony Walkman misses multimedia mark
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thirty years after revolutionizing portable music with the Walkman for playing cassette tapes, Sony is trying to master the digital media player with the X Series Walkman.
What's to become of Microsoft's answer to the iPod?
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Microsoft Corp.'s quarterly earnings report last week featured a number of grim statistics, including a relatively overlooked, albeit steep decline related to its Zune portable media player_potentially adding more uncertainty ...
Apple to unveil tablet computer: reports
Jul 27, 2009 |
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What's next from Apple? According to various reports, the California-based company plans to come out later this year with a portable tablet-sized computer that can surf the Web and may also serve as an electronic book reader.
Robot Trash Collectors Are Roaming the Streets of Italy (w/ Video)
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the city of Peccioli in the Tuscany region of Italy a robot called DustCart has been zipping through the streets. This is part of a $3.9 million research program called DustBot that aims ...
Palm Pre reconnects with estranged iTunes
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Palm Inc.'s Pre phone can again connect to Apple's iTunes software - just a week after Apple Inc. shut it out.
Samsung claims slimmest 'watch phone'
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 22, 2009 |
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Wednesday announced what it claims is the world's slimmest "watch phone".
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace ...
Happiness Is an iPhone App
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at UC Riverside and author of the book “The How of Happiness,” has teamed up with Signal Patterns, developers of psychology-based Web and mobile applications, to create the new “Live ...
Energy-Efficient Intelligent House that Can Learn our Routines
Jul 03, 2009 |
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The first home in the UK which can learn from its residents and take decisive action and text if it is being burgled or the door has been left unlocked, will be unveiled this week in Cairo.
