Thanks to the previous Galaxy model’s success, Samsung is now the world’s biggest phone manufacturer, a title it will no doubt keep once the slim and pebble-like Galaxy S III hits globally. At 4.8 inches, you can tell Samsung worked really hard at retaining the slightly smaller Galaxy S II’s footprint, so despite the 22 per cent larger display, it’s only 16 per cent bigger than the S II. We hear HTC’s One X is already quaking a little in fear.
Tablets are a hot property right now, but which tablet should you buy? We’ve assembled the specifications for 31 different tablets so you can compare. Update: Now with Toshiba’s newly announced tablets.
Tablets are a hot property right now, but which tablet should you buy? We’ve assembled the specifications for 28 different tablets so you can compare. Update: Now with the new iPad specifications.
The best products are often the simplest ones. The products that do their jobs with a minimum of fuss, that work as they’re supposed to without having to spend hours on the phone to tech support. But how do you go from the idea of a simple product to actually making it, selling it and then building a business around it? It’s a question that Melbourne entrepreneur Alon Tamir was faced with in his creation of the Wallee iPad wall mount.
If you listen to the marketing, 2011 is the year of the Smart TV. Not only are TV manufacturers launching televisions with internet connectivity built-in, they are developing their own platforms and SDKs for developers to create a new era of TV-based applications. It’s inevitable that TV apps are going to become mainstream, but before they do Consumer Electronics should be working together to create a uniform standard across the industry.
The company behind bookstores Borders and Angus and Robertson is in a lot of financial trouble at the moment. While they’ve been granted a slight stay of execution, they’re in administration, and things aren’t looking good. But given that Borders is the driving force behind eBook and eReader sales in Australia, what will happen to the budding electronic book market should RedGroup go completely under?
