Sunnyvale, California-based Web company Yahoo has unveiled some new multimedia applications for tablet PCs and smartphone users, reports Reuters. The web company, which is struggling for the past some time in its business and is currently evaluating its future, demonstrated new technologies to attract third-party publishers and advertisers to a new Apple Inc iPad-based media service.
“Innovation in this space is happening on mobile devices first, and it’s closest to users and that’s where …

Samsung has announced the imminent release of its tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus in the U.S.. It has been announced that the new tablet will be hit the shelves in the U.S. beginning November 13 and will be priced at $ 399.99. The devices are available for pre-order starting October 23 with select partners.
Here we are talking about the 16 GB model with Wi-Fi support, but not the 3G one. The 16GB Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will be available nationwide through Best Buy, Amazon, Tiger Direct, …

Motorola has officially confirmed that its Xoom tablets will be getting the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This information can’t be called a speculation, as it came directly from a reliable source of the manufacturer, rather than from some vague rumors.
Matt, a moderator on the Motorola support forum, says “I don’t know anything about if it will be first or not — have no insight into how other manufacturers do updates — but Xoom will get ICS. I just don’t …

During the BlackBerry Developer Conference (DevCon)  in San Francisco on Tuesday, RIM co-CEO Mike Laziridis unveiled its new operating system called BBX that is said to unite all future devices and services of BlackBerry, including smart phones and tablet computers BlackBerry PlayBook.
BBX platform will replace the BlackBerry OS and QNX, providing developers with a unified software environment. Attendees of the conference were also introduced with the application development tools for the new …

Competition in the lucrative smartphone market is getting stiff, and the companies are coming up with new ideas and gadgets almost every day to lure specific groups of customers. Continuing this trend, latest addition to the stable of Samsung is Galaxy Note that was announced in September 2011. The gadget with huge 5.3-inch colorful Super AMOLED HD-display besides having a thin stylus is targeted at females, as the smartphone of this size can fit only in the female handbags when not in use. The …

Production Cost of tablet Kindle Fire, presented by Amazon last week, is 209.63 dollars, while the device has been priced for retail at 199 dollars, indicates a conclusion by experts at IHS iSuppli.
The total cost of electronic components used in the production of the tablet Kindle Fire, is 191.65 dollars, and another 17.98 dollars are spent on the assembly of devices, and other overhead costs.
Previously, Gene Munster from research firm Piper Jaffray & Co. predicted that Amazon would lose …

Toshiba has taken the wraps off its new tablet, the Thrive 7, its second tablet in the market.

Toshiba has unveiled the new Thrive 7 tablet. Image: digitpedia / Flickr (CC)

The 7-inch-screened Thrive 7 tablet is very identical to its older 10-inch Thrive brother both in looks and in components.
However, its AutoBrite LED backlit screen is worth the mention as it packs a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, the kind of resolution 10-inch tablets have for their displays making the Thrive 7 the …

South Korea’s Samsung withdrew its new tablet Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the international exhibition of consumer electronics IFA 2011, being held these days in Berlin. This was announced after Apple won the second lawsuit against Samsung, forbidding Koreans to sell the new Galaxy tablet in Germany.
According to the decision of a land tribunal in Dusseldorf, the Korean company must stop the sale and marketing of this product, reports The New York Times. Samsung representative James Chung said …

Samsung has officially unveiled Series 7 Slate PC running 64-bit Windows 7 during the IFA 2011 in Berlin. The newbie is equipped with 11.6 inch touch screen with 16:9 aspect ratio and brightness 400 cd / sq.m, protected by tempered Gorilla Glass.
Under the hood of tablet is Intel Core i5-2467M processor with clock speed of 1.6GHz and 4GB DDR3-1333. Solid State Drive (SSD) may have the capacity of 32 or 64 GB. The model offers support for HSPA +, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0 for data …

Samsung Electronics has decided to defer the launch of its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia for sometime, reports Reuters. Samsung has said that the tablet will be launched after a court gives its ruling on global patent dispute with Apple next month.
Since April, Samsung and Apple are engaged in the legal battle for smartphone and tablet patents. Google’s Android phones are getting popularity among customers, and Apple has no option but to aim at Samsung, the biggest Android vendor, to …