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Textbooks just became cheaper and more social

Aug 10, 2011
A company called Kno has been distributing iPad versions of college textbooks since June. The company says it has 100,000 textbooks digitized and...

The robots are coming! Or, how to spoil a pefectly nice dance party.

Aug 1, 2011
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and iPads, is reportedly planning to "hire" 1 million robots to take on the boring,...

Who wants flashy, multi-media content anyway?

Aug 1, 2011
Magazine publisher Conde Nast (think Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) tells the New York Times that its best selling iPad app is the print-heavy New Yorke...

Sears is not offering a bargain on the iPad 2

Jul 18, 2011
Sears, official large store of your dad, has some egg on its face today after an advertising screw up on its website promised iPad 2s for $69....

Amazon to launch tablet by October

Jul 14, 2011
The Wall Street Journal is the latest to write up the long kicked around rumor of Amazon being about to launch a tablet computer. The Journal says...

Amazon tries to make cloud service more appealing

Jul 7, 2011
Amazon is now offering unlimited music storage on its cloud for paying customers. So when you buy any level of storage for your files, you can put...

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It's Facebook "something awesome" day

Jul 6, 2011
Today's the day Facebook announces what has only officially been described as "something awesome". Therefore, among the possibilities: the '75...

Facebook is going to debut something next week

Jul 1, 2011
We don't yet know what it is but that's what Zuckerberg said on a visit to Facebook offices in Seattle yesterday. He said it was something "awesome...

HP TouchPad is failing to impress

Jun 30, 2011
The reviews are rolling in for the latest entry in the tablet market, the TouchPad from HP, which goes on sale tomorrow morning. And it's not...