With Microsoft's Surface tablet not yet even slated for a release date or given a public price, one of the company's co-founders has claimed that the upcoming tablet may lead Microsoft to re-think its tablet strategy. In fact, the one and only Bill Gates believes that Apple may even need to make its own Surface in order to compete.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
There is a certain order of things whenever a new piece of technology is released. There's the big, flashy announcement event with lots of press, some music and a few over-excited executives. There's the first reviews. Finally, there's the teardown of the poor thing by the people at iFixit, laying the new tablet, smartphone or whatever bare for all to see. It's a strangely voyeuristic thing, and we love it.
The always popular Encyclopedia Britannica is now available to keep in the palm of your hand, with the news that a Windows Phone version of the app is available for download and fully updated for the year 2012. Primarily living online so as to avoid filling your phone's internal storage, the app also features an offline viewing mode for those occasions when Wi-Fi or a 3G data connection just isn't as forthcoming as we would like.
In an interview on Finnish TV, a Nokia executive has claimed that the phone maker has a fallback plan should Windows Phone 8 not meet the company's expectations. That fallback plan? Google's open source Android operating system.
That title may seem like an odd question, and admittedly, it probably is. What is an iPhone moment, after all? Have I lost my mind? Possibly, but just follow along for a minute.
When Google took the wrapper off Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, the company unleashed a raft of new features, improvements and changes that has left the Android community either clamoring to buy the new Nexus 7 tablet, or to port the new release to their current smartphone. If you're a Galaxy Nexus owner then you're probably in luck, but if not you can still get a little taste of Jelly Bean on your Ice Cream Sandwich phone right now.
SloPro for iPhone 4S has been updated and now allows film makers to record video at an amazing 1000 frames per second, according to the people behind the app.
When Microsoft introduced the Aero Snap feature into Windows, the company fixed a problem that many people, including most of us here at Redmond Pie, didn't realize we had. By making it easy for users to maximize windows and open two windows side-by-side on-screen with the minimal of fuss, Microsoft made window management something that we actually thought about. It also meant that we did not need to fiddle around resizing windows in order to get, say, two Chrome windows open beside each other or two Word documents open above and below each other. It was genius, even if we did not really fully understand it at the time.
Plugging a hole that has been around since its release in 2010, Twitter's Windows Phone app now sports push notifications, bringing it in-line with the iOS and Android versions of the app.
It has taken a day or two, but now videos are beginning to crop up comparing Apple's Siri on the iPhone 4S to Google's new voice options in the just announced Android 4.1, Jelly Bean.
