BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally shown its hand in the tablet computer market, taking aim at Apple’s iPad with the PlayBook, a device with a 7-inch touch screen running the new BlackBerry Tablet OS. Aimed squarely at the corporate market – and thereby differentiating itself somewhat from the iPad – the PlayBook weighs 400g, has a screen resolution of 1024×600, sports a 1GHz dual-core processor, and supports true symmetric multiprocessing.
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Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry range of smartphones, has posted a new video showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system software. The company has introduced a new, more fluid user interface. The video demonstrates a few of the new applications and features in BlackBerry 6, including a redesigned home screen.
A paper published in the journal Science describes a remarkable rebooting of a bacterial cell with a million-letter package of…
By now, you’ve probably seen a three-dimensional (3D) movie at the cinema. Are you ready for the same technology in…
Springbok assistant coach Gary Gold shares ideas of how the Apple iPad can be used in rugby. Gold, with help the Sportscode video analysis program, shows how the iPad could be used quite easily when sports teams, and particularly rugby teams, look to gain the edge through on-the-minute video analysis
Software maker Adobe has launched Creative Suite 5 (CS5), which it is billing as the most important release of its…
Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou provides a succinct, four-minute overview of Apple’s new iPad and some of its main features.
Simon Dingle and Brett Haggard of the ZA Tech Show, SA’s leading technology podcast, featured live on Leo Laporte’s This…
Nokia and Intel have announced that they will merge the best elements of their Maemo and Moblin Linux-based mobile operating…