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May 26, 2011
OverDrive Apps Upgrade to v2.3
If you already have these apps installed on your device, they should update automatically. If you are new to using OverDrive on your mobile device, you can download the mobile versions of OverDrive Media Console here.
January 13, 2011
Highlights from 2011 Consumer Electronics Show
This week, mashable.com reported on the 5 big consumer tech trends at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). These include:
Dual-Core Smartphones: LG and Motorola announced that they will introduce phones that run 1GHz dual-core processors as smartphones take a major leap in power and functionality. Users are demanding more and more multitasking capabilities from their handheld devices.
Android: The best devices at the show all ran on Google's Android Operating System platform. Companies like Samsung, Motorola and LG see Android as the industry's only alternative to Apple.
Seeking the iPad Challenger: 2011 will be the year of the tablet as companies rush to find a competitor for Apple's iPad. The Motorola Xoom has emerged as the best option to give Apple a run for the money.
TVs Get Smart: New TVs revealed this year can connect to the web and run apps. But will people really use their TVs to browse videos on YouTube?
Apple Casts a Giant Shadow: Although Apple does not attend CES, they still try to steal the spotlight. This year, Apple launched the Mac App Store and announced the Verizon iPhone at venues other than CES.
To learn more about the Consumer Electronics Show, click here.
Dual-Core Smartphones: LG and Motorola announced that they will introduce phones that run 1GHz dual-core processors as smartphones take a major leap in power and functionality. Users are demanding more and more multitasking capabilities from their handheld devices.
Android: The best devices at the show all ran on Google's Android Operating System platform. Companies like Samsung, Motorola and LG see Android as the industry's only alternative to Apple.
Seeking the iPad Challenger: 2011 will be the year of the tablet as companies rush to find a competitor for Apple's iPad. The Motorola Xoom has emerged as the best option to give Apple a run for the money.
TVs Get Smart: New TVs revealed this year can connect to the web and run apps. But will people really use their TVs to browse videos on YouTube?
Apple Casts a Giant Shadow: Although Apple does not attend CES, they still try to steal the spotlight. This year, Apple launched the Mac App Store and announced the Verizon iPhone at venues other than CES.
To learn more about the Consumer Electronics Show, click here.
December 31, 2009
Technology in '10
What do the experts say we can we expect for technology in 2010?
According to Nuri Djavit and Paul Newnes, writing on the blog Digital Media Buzz, the coming year will be one where Facebook replaces email, mobile commerce becomes a reality, we will register only once for many different sites, and crowd sourcing becomes a common idea.
Meanwhile, the technology staff at the Guardian (of London) predicts a year of more Google, green technology, apps and Apple.
What do you think?
According to Nuri Djavit and Paul Newnes, writing on the blog Digital Media Buzz, the coming year will be one where Facebook replaces email, mobile commerce becomes a reality, we will register only once for many different sites, and crowd sourcing becomes a common idea.
Meanwhile, the technology staff at the Guardian (of London) predicts a year of more Google, green technology, apps and Apple.
What do you think?
August 28, 2009
Apple Releases Snow Leopard, Newest Operating System
Apple has just released its newest operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6).
According to this video review at freep.com, Snow Leopard is a “Web browsing speed demon…Hitting the streets with very little fanfare, [the] operating system is a refined, slimmer version of an already great computing system.”
And here is an equally positive review from The New York Times.
Snow Leopard is a $30 upgrade for Mac users running Leopard (10.5).
Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, is due out in October.
According to this video review at freep.com, Snow Leopard is a “Web browsing speed demon…Hitting the streets with very little fanfare, [the] operating system is a refined, slimmer version of an already great computing system.”
And here is an equally positive review from The New York Times.
Snow Leopard is a $30 upgrade for Mac users running Leopard (10.5).
Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, is due out in October.
July 27, 2009
Apple to Launch Kindle Competitor this Fall?
Apple is getting ready for a Fall launch of a tablet computer with a touch screen like the iPhone or iPod, reports the Financial Times. The new computer will not run the full Mac operating system, but a slimmed down version limited to running one application at a time.
Apple hopes that its new machine will increase the sale of its music downloads. The new tablet will have a larger screen than an iPod or iPhone, to give users the experience of looking at a 12" album sleeves from the recording industry's past, when music was recorded onto vinyl. The bigger display might include videos, photographs, sleeve notes and lyrics for a song or album.
The device is expected to have Wi-Fi capabilities and to be able to download and stream music and run applications. There are no indications about the price or screen size of the machine.
Some of the impetus for this new tablet is believed to have come from record companies which have seen their incomes plummet because far fewer now buy entire albums; Apple's iTunes Music Store, launched in 2003, allows people to download single tracks rather than buying the whole album at once – drastically cutting the income for the record company.
There is also speculation that the computer will contain ebook capabilities, making it an immediate rival to Amazon's Kindle. "It would be a color, flat-panel TV to the old-fashioned, black and white TV of the Kindle," one publishing executive told the Financial Times.
[via Guardian Online]
Apple hopes that its new machine will increase the sale of its music downloads. The new tablet will have a larger screen than an iPod or iPhone, to give users the experience of looking at a 12" album sleeves from the recording industry's past, when music was recorded onto vinyl. The bigger display might include videos, photographs, sleeve notes and lyrics for a song or album.
The device is expected to have Wi-Fi capabilities and to be able to download and stream music and run applications. There are no indications about the price or screen size of the machine.
Some of the impetus for this new tablet is believed to have come from record companies which have seen their incomes plummet because far fewer now buy entire albums; Apple's iTunes Music Store, launched in 2003, allows people to download single tracks rather than buying the whole album at once – drastically cutting the income for the record company.
There is also speculation that the computer will contain ebook capabilities, making it an immediate rival to Amazon's Kindle. "It would be a color, flat-panel TV to the old-fashioned, black and white TV of the Kindle," one publishing executive told the Financial Times.
[via Guardian Online]
April 27, 2009
Why Your Next Computer Should Be a Mac... Or a PC
Thinking about buying a new computer?
Here are eight reasons why your next computer should be a Mac.
And, eight reasons why your next computer should be a PC.
[via Yahoo Tech]
Here are eight reasons why your next computer should be a Mac.
And, eight reasons why your next computer should be a PC.
[via Yahoo Tech]
March 13, 2009
New Mac OS -- Snow Leopard -- Expected this Summer
9to5 Mac has reported that the newest operating system for Apple Macintosh computers -- Snow Leopard or OS X 10.6 -- will be released in early June.
[via Lifehacker]
[via Lifehacker]
February 24, 2009
Early Look at Apple's New Snow Leopard OS
The Tech Desk has spent a lot of time covering Windows 7 -- Microsoft's new operating system, set to be released in the fall.
In the interest of equal time for our Mac users, here -- from Wired.com -- is an early review of the next generation of Apple’s OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard.
No release date or cost for Snow Leopard, yet.
In the interest of equal time for our Mac users, here -- from Wired.com -- is an early review of the next generation of Apple’s OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard.
No release date or cost for Snow Leopard, yet.
February 11, 2009
Apple to Unveil $99 iPhone
Interested in an iPhone, but not in the iPhone's $200-300 price tag?
According to Silicon Alley Insider, Apple will start selling a cheaper, "entry-level" iPhone sometime this summer for around $99. The main cost reductions would come from fewer features -- a lower-resolution camera, no GPS, etc. But the less expensive model would keep the iPhone look and feel, and such features as the multi-touch screen.
Some analysts think that Apple could sell 20-30 million of these cheaper iPhones in 2010, boosting the company's smartphone market share to almost 20%.
According to Silicon Alley Insider, Apple will start selling a cheaper, "entry-level" iPhone sometime this summer for around $99. The main cost reductions would come from fewer features -- a lower-resolution camera, no GPS, etc. But the less expensive model would keep the iPhone look and feel, and such features as the multi-touch screen.
Some analysts think that Apple could sell 20-30 million of these cheaper iPhones in 2010, boosting the company's smartphone market share to almost 20%.
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