Tablet

Sorry, Naomi Lakritz, but I won’t read the Calgary Herald anymore

April 28, 2011 Business

I reported about this previously, but an update is in order. The Calgary Herald, part of Postmedia, which used to be the Canwest newspapers before it went bankrupt, boasts about its digital presence every single day, but fails to live up to its claims.

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Almost $700 for Galaxy Tab – who are they kidding?

November 18, 2010 Science & Technology

Have you tasted blood yet and become an avid tablet user, that is iPad user? I’m specifying “iPad” for good reason: except for the iPad, there is no other product yet that deserves to be assigned to the tablet category. The Galaxy Tab by Samsung, a so-called “tablet” based on the Android operating system, has [...]

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Tablets – is the world flat after all?

October 8, 2010 Science & Technology

I have a confession to make. I used to be extremely skeptical about such “newfangled” devices as the iPhone and the iPad for the longest time. At a time when the iPhone was already all the rage, I decided to buy a Blackberry phone instead. Nor did I hold out much hope for all those [...]

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Tablet market is growing

September 3, 2010 Science & Technology

Samsung is coming out with its new tablet called Galaxy Tab, which runs on the Android operating system. Some sources say the device could cost as much as $1,200, which would make it much more expensive than even the top-grade iPad model (64GB, 3G + Wi-Fi). This strikes me as somewhat odd, because the Galaxy [...]

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RIM tablet?

June 15, 2010 Business

The tablet is still early in development, but it’s definitely something that RIM wants to pair with its iconic BlackBerry smartphones. It won’t have 3G internet access of its own, for example, and will instead connect to a Blackberry device to access the Web. One assumes that the device would have Wi-Fi, at the very [...]

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