If you don’t want to buy an iPad, you’ve got options. That’s the gist of an article from TechRadar. Tablets are everywhere — well, the iPad is everywhere — and now there are lots of companies looking to latch onto the iPad craze with their own tablets.
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Apple TV vs. Roku: Angry Birds flies into the fight
What’s a better choice for a set-top box to stream movies, the Roku box or Apple TV? That’s a tough call, but maybe Angry Birds, now available for Roku, will help consumers decide.
3 top features of Mac OS X Lion
Here’s a very quick, very brief preview of three standout features of Mac OS X Lion.
Will the Amazon tablet be cheaper than the iPad?
That seems likely, especially because the Amazon tablet probably won’t have a camera. Amazon plans to release the tablet in the fall, according to reports, and will view it, in part, as a way to allow people to buy (and rent) Amazon content on its own device.
5 ways smartphones will change (destroy?) life as we know it
Damon Darlin of the New York Times recently wrote an amusing take on smartphones, outlining five improvements to life possible with smartphones.
Macworld: 12 best stylus options for touch-screen art
Touch-screen art, typically created with the iPhone or the iPad, is everywhere these days, from gallery shows to the cover of the New Yorker magazine. Macworld provides a handy comparison of a variety of touch-screen styluses, and gives them star ratings.
I’mWatch: A wristwatch that connects to your smartphone
Your wrist might be the last place you’d expect to see Google’s Android operating system, but a new Android-based, super-connected wristwatch called I’mWatch is pretty genius, when you think about it.
You’ll soon be able to borrow Kindle books from your local library
Amazon announced today a new Kindle feature, launching later this year, that will allow libraries to lend out copies of Kindle ebooks to patrons.
Wow, real page numbers for the Kindle
Are you a fan of the Kindle, Amazon’s popular reading device—either on the Kindle itself or maybe on a phone?
Add an old-school touch to your iPhone
Here’s a quirky (i.e. Japanese) iPhone accessory you probably didn’t realize you needed: Phone x Phone, an old-school wired phone that serves an iPhone charging dock — and real phone, all in one.