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Android apps at the PlayBook can keep their built-in ads, won’t support RIM ads
Let’s face it: a free PlayBook is good, but it is not enough. If Android developers are to be persuaded to surrender soccer practice and hot dates to remain home and re-package their apps for PlayBook OS 2.0 , then they’ll …
BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 release confirmed for February 21st
There’s been quite a few between the online and RIM lately in regards to the debut date of the next OS release for the PlayBook, and now now we have some hard evidence showing that the software is determined …
RIM shows off new features for PlayBook 2.0 at DevCon
All eyes are on Amsterdam this morning, as RIM hosts DevCon Europe. Among all of the usual avowals about how well things are going are a number of nuggets of the recent and the noteworthy. One such morsel was an indication of latest …
RIM indulges in some ‘myth busting’ at BlackBerry DevCon Europe
Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, just took the stage at RIM’s DevCon gathering in Amsterdam to accumulate and promptly knock down a number of “myths” about RIM’s state of health . First up, he tackled the notion that BlackBerry is a declining platform by …
Develop an Android app, get a free Blackberry PlayBook
Still wary of dropping $200 on a BlackBerry Playbook ? How does “free” sound? That is what RIM is offering to Android developers today, as portion of an overt try to spur interest in its App World platform …
BlackBerry London resurfaces in leak, sports matte black exterior, nonexistent OS
That salacious onyx number up there? Per CrackBerry, it is a rendering of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry codenamed London . Found lurking in a leaked Waterloo slidedeck, the svelte render now sports a more curvaceous and onyx exterior — a departure from the angular metallic …
Distro Issue 25: Ultrabook overload, Snap Analysis and Gina Trapani
Distro is 25… weeks old, today! And to celebrate we’re debuting a brand new page that puts you, our readers, front and center. We’ve been sending out questions over various social networking channels and collecting your answers for the inaugural run of Snap Analysis. …
2012 BlackBerry roadmap leaks, reveals pile of Curves and 3G PlayBook
We’ve heard some rumors about what RIM had in store for its beleaguered BlackBerry brand, but we’re today seeing some evidence to support those claims. The fine folks over at BGR have got their hands on what seems to be a duplicate of the …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.