Posts Tagged ‘CES’

Panasonic Shows Viera Tablet

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Panasonic joins the tablet goldrush with the Viera Tablet. The tablet is described by the company as a TV companion and will be available in two screensizes (4.7” and 10”).

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Panasonic Opens App Market for Viera TV’s

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

During the CES, Panasonic announced their App Market for their line of Viera TV’s. The App Market is an extension to Panasonic’s IPTV platform called Viera Connect.

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Motorola Atrix Blurs the Line Between Smartphone and Tablet

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Next to the Xoom, Motorola had another surprise in mind for the press. The company also unveiled the Motorola Atrix 4G, a smartphone with tablet capabilities.

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Motorola Unveils the Xoom Tablet

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Motorola has finally unveiled their new Xoom tablet during the CES. The Xoom runs on Android 3.0 Honeycomb and has a Nvidia Tegra-2 1Ghz processor on board combined with 1 GB DDR2 memory.

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Microsoft Developing ARM Branch of Windows 7?

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

If rumors are right, Microsoft is nearly ready with a special version of Windows 7 that is able to run on ARM-based processors. This would improve Windows 7’s scalability toward tablet based devices.

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Google Delays Google TV Launches

December 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems like several hardware vendors will be out of luck during the CES show next month. Google has delayed Google TV distribution to new devices as the company needs more time to finish the OS.

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CES: Samsung Expands Samsung Apps to Cameras

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Samsung has already been very pro-active with expanding their app store. Previously they already announced that internet connected TV’s would be able to connect and download apps from it.

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Palm Gets $ 100m Injection

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

It seems Palm has been saved for now by Elevation Partners. The investors have put $ 100 million into the hardware company (not to be mistaken from the company that produces Palm OS).

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Nova, Palm’s New OS

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

2008 seems the be the year of the OS. We've seen Symbian change hands, Symbian UIQ die, Android launch and hey, in the last second, good old Palm announces a new OS (which probably means they will ditch their old one).