Many people were excited to hear rumors about Apple TV to be renamed as iTV and that it would run apps from the App Store but nothing like that was revealed in the media event on September 1. Still, the new Apple TV has some interesting features like TV show rentals, cheap price and one of the good ones is that you can control your Apple TV using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with an all new gesture controlled remote app.
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Another 30 seconds teaser of HP Slate – demoes iTunes, video recording and much more
Just when the iPad has launched and over 30,000 people are using it, HP Slate comes back in the sight for 30 second to remind us that there is another Tablet PC ready to launch. But surely HP Slate would have to offer a lot more to be better than the iPad to provide any sort of competition.
Asus Eee PC T101MT an iPad competitor?
As expected we’re getting to see a lot of tablets floating here and there, but the Asus Eee PC T101MT is a netbook and tablet mashed together. Don’t be fooled by it’s hardware, it’s surely capable of doing more than what it’s made to do.
Courier is real, confirms a Microsoft jobs posting
Courier is one of those fanboy fantasies that was never officially announced but sparked a dream in the eyes of many. Why would Microsoft not want to work on such an excellent concept is something we might never understand, but it seems like they’ve faltered on the secrecy of the Courier project, considering the following jobs posting over at Microsoft Jobs Blog is real.
Google Earth for Android 2.1 Released!
Google Earth for Android was revealed during the Google Nexus One launch event, but it wasn’t available for public use back then in the Android Marketplace. Well now it’s finally available in the Marketplace for you to download and check out it’s features!
HTC Sense and Android 2.1 make a great combo!
This week was loaded of new HTC handsets with Android 2.1 and HTC Sense. So here’s a video revealing an old HTC Hero running the newest Android 2.1 and Sense. What’s new you might ask? Well, looks like HTC wasn’t happy being the first to bring pinch-to-zoom to the browser and gallery (7 months before Google), it wants more.
Multi-touch drawing App for the Zune HD
Just because the Zune HD Marketplace isn’t open like the App Store doesn’t mean that developers can’t make apps for it and we can’t use them. A developer has created a multi-touch drawing app for the Zune HD using XNA 3.1 Zune extensions. The app is really basic and doesn’t even have different colors to chose. But the developer has already said that the app is intended for developers and encourages improvements to the code.