Tag: Apple
The iPad is not a computer
What’s the difference between a computer and an appliance? Which one is the iPad, and what is it good for?
Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features. 3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution 5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus 16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards…
Google Voice manages your calls, messages and phones for free
Image by adria.richards via Flickr Most of the topics we cover here on AuctioneerTech come from technology news. In the last couple of weeks, however, one of the stories that rose to the level of national consumer news is the FCC‘s involvement in a dispute between Apple, AT&T and Google. In letters to each company,…
Palm to release Pre on June 6
Image by renaissancechambara via Flickr We’ve mentioned sporadically that Palm would be releasing the closest thing we’ve seen to an iPhone killer in the last two years. We just didn’t know when it would happen, though we knew it would be exclusively on the Sprint network for at least a while. Today, Palm finally announced…
Opera web browser version 10 alpha
Image via CrunchBase Newer, faster browser rendering engines are all the rage. Google released Chrome based on Webkit and V8; Firefox uses Gecko and is going to be using TraceMonkey for JavaScript. Apple made some noise a few weeks ago by releasing a beta of its Webkit-based Safari 4, now using Apple’s new Nitro engine…