Microsoft Surface tablets to reportedly cost at least $600

Microsoft Surface
Microsoft’s Windows RT Surface tablet is expected to have a price tag of at least $600, according to a report from DigiTimes. Citing unnamed sources, DigiTimes also reported that the Windows 8 Pro Surface would be priced at $800 or more, making it significantly more expensive than any other big-name tablet currently on the market. Continue Reading →

5 ways Microsoft’s Surface may be better than an iPad

Microsoft Surface
It’s sacrilege to some Apple fanboys. It’s also something none of Apple’s competitors have been able to claim since that “magical” day in early 2010. But when Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablet (actually a pair of them) Monday, the software company clearly had one ultimate goal: to make a tablet that’s better than the iPad. Continue Reading →

Fundraising through iPads

iPad 3rd-Gen
Most people in the UK have become familiar with charity fundraisers approaching them at the door of their home or in their local shopping centre with a clipboard and paper to ask them to set up a direct debit donation. But this encounter is likely to become more technological as charities start replacing clipboards with Continue Reading →

Spotify Is Now Free on the iPhone and iPad…Sort Of

Spotify
Radio is the latest addition to Spotify’s iOS apps, which allows users to take the streaming music service’s Pandora-like functionality on the go. But this isn’t just for the people with premium accounts. Anyone can listen to Spotify radio on their iOS device for free. Nearly every subscription music service offers some sort of free Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – June 19, 2012

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120619_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] At long last, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer announced a Microsoft branded, Windows 8 tablet called the Microsoft Surface.  It’s a 10.6 inch, tablet with a removable battery and it weighs only 1 ½ pounds.  The Microsoft Surface is obviously designed as direct competition for the Apple’s iPad.  Continue Reading →

Microsoft Unveils a Tablet to Challenge the iPad

Microsoft Surface
In its biggest-ever push into the hardware business, Microsoft on Monday unveiled a tablet computer called Surface that is designed to challenge Apple’s iPad. At an event here, the company showed off the device, which is about the same weight and thickness as an iPad, with a 10.6-inch screen. The tablet has a built-in “kickstand” Continue Reading →

Apple to become most profitable company ever

Apple
As Apple’s stock price continues its roller coaster ride after topping $600 earlier this year, one industry watcher believes the stock is currently in the bargain bin. Apple can already lay claim to the most profitable quarter in history among technology companies, and Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White on Monday wrote in a note Continue Reading →

A Mozilla Browser Is Coming to iPad, but It’s Not Firefox

Mozilla Junior
Because Apple won’t allow any browser technology besides Webkit on iOS, Mozilla can’t bring Firefox to Apple’s mobile devices. But instead of ignoring the platform completely, they’re working on Junior: a Webkit-based browser that eschews tabs and the standard URL bar in favor of a new UI. That’s not to say that you can’t have Continue Reading →