According to leaked pre-order figures, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet offering - focused primarily on video and streaming media, is set to revolutionize the way we view video - with first month sales set to topple those of the market's founding father - Apple's iPad.
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With Steve Jobs' eagerly anticipated biography hitting all major outlets in the last couple of days, many fans of the late innovator have consulted the iBookstore in order to get a closer look at the man behind the company.
When camera first met cellphone, it was a novelty to have the two integrated, and the quality of stills produced wasn't given much consideration. Nowadays, not only is a camera considered to be something of a necessity, but consumers expect a solid, X-megapixel snapper to capture those all-important moments that can spring up at any time.
The launch of Apple's iPhone 4S has seen sales reach dizzy new heights, with 4 million units sold in its first three days, and some reckoning sales of 16 per second as the world becomes gripped by the latest strain of iPhone fever.
Apple has frequently, and often unjustly, denied users of older iterations of devices certain new features when the software updates come around. Although the reason is always cited to be hardware frailties unable to cope with the new software, it's often just a mean ploy to get consumers paying for the latest model.
The unfortunate death of Steve Jobs, Apple's former CEO who succumbed to pancreatic cancer some two weeks ago, has led an inevitable surge in the interest in his first (and only) official biography, compiled by Walter Isaacson.
Apple has, in years gone by, held various 'Tech Talk World Tours' aimed at giving its developers a more in-depth view on new technologies. iOS 5, the company's latest mobile operating system, will be the next taken on an education spree from Berlin to Beijing, Seoul to Seattle.
Though many iOS users like to dabble with the tweaks and apps available within the Cydia Store, there are many different kinds of jailbreakers.
The need (or lack thereof) to jailbreak and tweak iOS 5 is something which has been questioned to the nth degree since the WWDC '11 announcement. With Apple making some 200+ changes, many of which took into account features previously exclusive to a pwned version of iOS 4 or earlier, many wondered why one would actually jailbreak - besides downloading tweaks.
At the joint Google-Samsung event in Hong Kong today, the hotly-anticipated Galaxy Nexus was finally unveiled alongside Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
