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RIM CEO: We’ll consider BlackBerry 10 licensing if approached

Chris Davies, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [1]

RIM‘s new CEO has confirmed he is open to the possibility of licensing BlackBerry 10 to other manufacturers, though says he is loath to give up the “integrated solution” of software, hardware and more without good strategic reason. “We’re strong because we have an integrated solution: network, services, enterprise service and fantastic devices and a fantastic ecosystem” freshly elected CEO and President Thorsten Heins said this morning, during an investor call regarding his new position. ”Not many companies have [an integrated system], one is the other fruit company, and one is us.”

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Pantech Element lands at AT&T for $299.99 on contract

Shane McGlaun, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

We went hands-on with the Pantech Element tablet back during CES, and it was an interesting little device. If you have been waiting for the tablet to land in your local AT&T store so you could grab one, your time is now. The tablet is officially available on AT&T on or off contract. The on-contract price for the element is $299.99 with the obligatory 2-year data contract. Read The Full Story

RIM relents: Thorsten Heins named new CEO and President

Chris Davies, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [2]

RIM has elected a new CEO and President, Thorsten Heins, with previous co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepping back after investors and the company’s board demanded change. Heins – who was previously co-COO at RIM, and before that Senior VP of Handhelds – takes his new role today, where he says he will “focus both on short-term and long-term growth, strategic planning, a customer- and market-based product approach, and flawless execution.”

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Notion Ink Adam II detailed: TI chipset and Ice Cream Sandwich

Chris Davies, Jan 21st 2012 Discuss [36]

Notion Ink has announced the first details of its second-generation Adam II Android tablet, revealing a partnership with Texas Instruments and plans for using a customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich. The new tablet – seemingly called Adam II, though as far back as mid-2010 Notion Ink was talking about an “Eve” successor to its Adam first-attempt – will use a chip from TI’s OMAP44xx range, jumping ship from NVIDIA and the Tegra series in the original tablet.

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Columns

The Problem With Tech and Teaching

Philip Berne, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [48]

Let me tell you a funny story about technology in the classroom. I was teaching English at a charter school in Boston a few years ago, and my classes were working on “Macbeth.” I’m always looking for new angles of attack, especially with Shakespeare, so I decided to focus on different interpretations and stagings of the play. I cut scenes from a variety of movie versions of Macbeth and showed them to my classes, so we could compare the difference. I used a Royal Shakespeare company version. I used the movie “Scotland, PA,” a wonderful modern adaptation in which Macbeth’s is a fast food restaurant. But my favorite of all was the Roman Polanski version, produced with funding from Hugh Hefner.

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Motorola challenges Apple with tablets in the classroom

Chris Davies, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [17]

Apple isn't the only company with its sights on the schoolroom; just as the company revealed iBooks 2 with new interactive textbook functionality, Motorola has been talking about its own pilot scheme putting Android tablets into students' and teachers' hands. The project began in November last year, using Motorola's XOOM at a San Diego high school in math and science classes, delivering digital textbooks and notetaking, recording multimedia and other content, accessing online learning resources and submitting assignments through Google Docs. Read The Full Story

New iPad Retina Display looking more likely from iBooks 2 icons

Chris Davies, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Further evidence of a next-gen iPad with a 2048 x 1536 "Retina Display" has been unearthed, this time from iconography and graphics included in Apple's new iBooks 2 app released yesterday. A new bookmark icon in the refreshed app - labeled "iPadx2" - was spotted after some judicious digging by MacRumors and devs Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul, indicating Apple is preparing to double up on the existing resolution of the iPad for its imminent third-gen variant. Read The Full Story

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak incoming with Corona A5 tool

Chris Davies, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [40]

A jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is almost ready for release, arch-iOS hackers the iPhone Dev Team have announced, with only streamlining the user-experience of the "Corona A5 jailbreak" left to complete. Until now, the Apple A5-based products have been stubbornly resistant to hacking attempts, Apple changing its approach in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S so as to give users wanting to install unofficial software more trouble than before. That time of frustration, though, is nearly through. Read The Full Story

iPad 2S up next, iPad 3 pushed back

Chris Burns, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [34]

When it comes to Apple, there's only one thing you can guess on releases: you never ever quite know what you're going to get or what it'll be called - thats why when the name iPad 2S popped up on the airwaves this afternoon, the wheels in our minds started spinning furiously. This is not the first time we've seen the "S" naming scheme appear on an Apple product, nor will it be the last time, but here it certainly does appear to be the first iPad to attain the partial step between full refreshes in models. It's a Chinese case maker by the name of Chinee that appears to have spilled the beans here, showing off a case that looks not unlike one that would fit fine on an iPad 2, but with an additional letter that's oh-so-telling in the title. Read The Full Story

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AT&T gets the tail end of this mobile price change, not consumers

Chris Burns, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [6]

Since yesterday when news broke that AT&T would be changing both their prices and their data allowances on new users accounts for the 2012 season, there’s been one whole heck of a lot of dissent out there on why people “hate AT&T even more”, and so forth. What’s not showing up nearly enough is the fact that with these new price “hikes” also comes a better data to price ratio as well as the ability to keep your old prices if that’s what you enjoy more. Instead of griping about how AT&T is raising their prices, perhaps a glance at the fact that it’s not you, current AT&T customer, who will be footing the bill, nor will it be someone who previously payed less.

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Tablet shoppers outspend PC and smartphone users says research

Chris Davies, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [1]

Spend-friendly tableteers splash out significantly more on online purchases than their smartphone and desktop/notebook counterparts, according to new research, with those doing their holiday 2011 shopping on an iPad or other slate spending 21-percent more on average than those using a traditional computer. In fact, tablet shoppers spend 54-percent more than smartphone shoppers, according to a new Adobe Digital Marketing Insights report, and are almost three times more likely to buy products and services. Read The Full Story

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Android 4.0 for Tablets shouldn’t be judged until it’s released

Chris Burns, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [78]

Last week it was announced that the Transformer Prime would be the first certified tablet to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, then today the XOOM ICS update began rolling out, but there’s one judgement article out there produced by a high-ranking set of names which has passed judgement on it for those who would take their for granted that they know all about it from their 2 minutes of playtime. What they say, as it were, is that they know a guy with a Motorola tablet who has Ice Cream Sandwich on it and told them that it wasn’t very good. They then say they were at CES and spoke with a less than knowledgeable presenter who didn’t know ICS from Honeycomb.