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Tweet RIM is planning to release two additional BlackBerry4G PlayBook tablets during the second half of 2011.   LTE and HSPA+ high speed wide area wireless networks features will be supported by these new models. "The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is already being widely recognised for its superior performance, rich web experience, enterprise readiness and deep support for web standards and open development tools. We are now building on the BlackBerry PlayBook's many advantages with support for additional 4G networks that will allow enhanced business opportunities for carriers and developers and unparalleled mobile experiences for users," said Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. RIM has now announced plans to offer four BlackBerry PlayBook tablets: 1)     BlackBerry PlayBook with Wi-Fi 2)     BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi + WiMax 3)     BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi + LTE 4)     BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi + HSPA+ In addition to th

Tweet Apple and News Corp launched The Daily , an iPad-only newspaper, 2 nd of February 2011 in New York City priced at 99 cents per week (and $39.99 per year). Murdoch has said he hopes the Daily will be an "indispensable source of news" in the tablet era. How this can be done? News Corp has hired about 100 journalists to work on it the iPad paper, which will feature news reports, HD videos, interactive graphics and 360 degree photos designed to work with the iPad's touchscreen. The features also include a Sudoku and cross word puzzle. The Daily will also be adding Twitter feeds to some articles and offer content personalized to the user. "Our target audience is the 15 million Americans expected to own iPads in the next year," Murdoch told the BBC. "In the tablet-era there is room for a fresh and robust new voice. New times demand new journalism." Two-hundred-million news apps have been downloaded from a possible 9,000 different apps, Eddy Cue,

Tweet Nokia and Microsoft announced their broad strategic partnership last 11st of February 2011 in London. What was this for?! Android based devices now in the Smartphone market is increasing and Nokia want to regain ground lost in that market. Using Microsoft and Nokia complementary strengths and expertise will help in: 1-     Creating a new global mobile ecosystem, 2-     Creating market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. 3-     Integrating key assets and create completely new service offerings, while extending established products and services to new markets. What Stephen Elop Steve Ballmer said in the Press Conference? Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO, who joined Nokia from Microsoft in September last year, said at a press conference: "Today, developers, operators and consumers want compelling mobile products, which include not only the device, but the software, services, appli

Tweet Microsoft Windows 7 has important tools that assess the computer’s hardware performance. One of these tools is The Windows Experience Index which measures the capability of your computer's hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score. Scoring your computer performance Subscore will be assigned to every hardware component in your computer. Then your computer will have a base score which will equal to the lowest subscore for an individual hardware component. If a computer base score is 2.3, what does it mean? This means that, if the lowest subscore of an individual hardware component is 2.3 , then the base score is 2.3. What is the benefit of the subscores? The subscores is a view of how the most important components will perform, and can help in deciding which components to upgrade. How to buy your programs? The base score can be used when buying programs and other software that are matched to the computer’s base score

Tweet The open source OS Android will help the third-party developers to write Android-based apps to run on the Web-connected TVs. “Android’s share in the Smartphone market is increasing, so if you want to strengthen your product line-up, it’s an operating system that you would normally want,” said Jin Sung Hae, a Seoul-based analyst at Hyundai Securities Co. Third-party applications of Android has a growing marketplace , this will makes   the consumers could shop their   new widgets or apps from these marketplace instead of relying on their TV maker to secure new content deals with the likes of Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, and others. Having Android on a TV is another way to enable Web-connected sets to download widgets like YouTube, weather, stocks, and anything else on the Android Marketplace in order to bring in more content besides just channels from a cable or satellite company. Using Android would be a cheaper option for the TV makers as it is open source and comes pre-

E-READERS between price drop and sales increase in 2011   Some analysts expected that some e-readers with black-and-white displays could drop its prices to hit $50 in 2011 Also they said that declining prices of e-readers is an indication that its market is young and likely to remain in a state of uncertainty for a few more years. Some experts are also asking for how long the black-and-white e-ink e-readers will survive in the face of the full-color tablet computers. For Example IPAD is offering multimedia functionality and a backlit 9.7-in. LED display. Sales of e-readers are expected to increase 68.3 percent in 2011, to more than 11 million units, according to a December report from Gartner. Samsung, Sony, Amazon and others are facing a growing threat from the full-color tablet computers. A recent survey from ChangeWave Research suggested that the iPad’s share of the e-reader market had expanded from 16 percent to 32 percent between August and November 2010, even as the Kindle’s

Tweet Usernames for Facebook Pages by Facebook Pages on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 11:54pm When 25 or more people are connected to your page, you can select a username for your Facebook Page by visiting www.facebook.com/username . Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for each of the Pages that you administer. The Page username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). The selected username should clearly identify the artist or business represented by your Page. Create a username that is as close as possible to your public figure or business name (e.g. AshtonKutcher, PizzaHut) to avoid any confusion or misrepresentation. In addition, generic words (e.g. restaurant) are not available as options for Facebook usernames. Think carefully about the username you choose for your Page as once it has been selected, you will not b