Canonical had been piquing our interest with a count-down on its Ubuntu website. The wait is finally over and the company has unveiled its Ubuntu tablet OS. The OS meant to run atop tablets packs stunning looks, excellent and fluid functionality and a whole host of very enticing features.
The largest Internet IPO in history, roughly $1 billion profit, and lots of new developments – the year of 2012 was a big one for Facebook. Yeah, I know the IPO was a mess, you probably find no use for Facebook’s graph search, there was the Instagram privacy debacle and all, but don’t forget the social network managed to generate roughly $1 billion profit last year. And, the Federal Tax laws have made it sweeter for Facebook.
T-Mobile has a big launch event on March 27th – the release event of BlackBerry Z10. But, BlackBerry isn’t the only device to be introduced on that day. T-Mobile is preparing to push a small gadget on the same day – Sonic 2.0 Mobile HotSpot LTE. T-Mobile has released a press image of the 4G LTE hotspot.
Less than a week after major newspapers reported about a smartwatch, branded as iWatch, from Apple, some leaked screenshots suggests a rival. It seems to be the continuation of a year-long rivalry. You probably guessed it by now; it’s Samsung. And the rivalry seems to be continued in the smartwatch market too.
LG is not among the top players in the smartphone arena. However, that does little to diminish the company’s spirits, it seems. LG has a knack of regularly rolling out its sales milestones. The latest of such announcements from the company reveals that it has sold 15 million Optimus L series smartphones so far.
Lots of recent smartphones and tablets now arrive with built-in support for 4G LTE connectivity. As a result, wireless carriers are increasingly inclined to offer LTE to more and more customers. U.S. Cellular has also joined the bandwagon, hoping to bring LTE to 87% of its customers by the end of 2013.
We reported earlier that after a rather caustic NYT review of Tesla’s Model S, Elon Musk penned down a detailed rejoinder to it. Now, the NYT reported who wrote the review has responded to Mr. Musk’s allegations point by point.
More often than not, most of us get the urge to have a gadget which is exclusively designed to our liking. We want it to reflect a part of us in its outlook. In other words, we crave customization. Artme, a KickStarter project, now envisions to do that precisely by offering a whole range of cool art which would be available for different devices.