Apple TV is Apple’s $99 table top device that pulls content from iTunes and Netflix and plays it on your TV screen-in full 1080HD. Apple TV also lets iOS devices stream content onto the TV screen. You can even play games on your iPad and watch the game screen on your TV. That’s all fine [...]
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The Fall Welcomes New High-Tech Products
Fall is always a great time for major companies to introduce their newest electronic gizmos. Gearing up for the Christmas rush, this fall will see the introduction of a number of new and innovative devices that will surely be on many wish lists. Apple is releasing a new iPad mini tablet and Microsoft will be [...]
Rumored Iphone 5 Announcement Date Causes Trade-In Surge at Ebay
Apple is such a massive brand with a massive loyal fan base that even rumors about its products, which may turn out to be completely false, can push consumer demand and consumer behavior. Take for example, the case of the iPhone 5. There hasn’t been an official announcement about the date of the official launch [...]
Does Google Nexus 7 Tablet Have a Fighting Chance?
We have all heard about the Apple iPad and how it revolutionized mobile computing. By creating a new market in between laptop computers and mobile phones, the Apple iPad has introduced global users to the wonderful world of mobile computing using smaller app programs. Talk about bridging the benefits between full-blown computing and smart phone [...]
Google Nexus 7 Off to a Great Start
Google has made another foray into the hardware space. We have already reported earlier on the Chromebox and its rather underwhelming impact. Now Google has entered the very lucrative and fast-growing tablet space with the Nexus 7. It appears like this gambit is looking good for now because many major retailers are reporting that they [...]
Research in Motion’s App World Passes 3-Billion Mark
Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, has been the recipient of quite a storm of bad news lately. It reported bad earnings recently, which caused its stock to plummet. There is even talk that it has been looking for a partner to either finance it or outright buy it. You know how rumors get. [...]
Some Key Reasons to Cheer on the Microsoft Surface
Microsoft, the software giant from Redmond, Washington, sure raised a lot of eyebrows recently when it announced that it would be releasing its first hardware product, the tablet dubbed Surface. This raised many eyebrows on so many levels. First, Microsoft is a software giant, and it is not a hardware manufacturer. Questions regarding core competencies, [...]
Research in Motion’s Options Are Looking Quite Urgent
Do you remember the BlackBerry? Of course, you do. Who could forget those lovably somewhat clunky phones with the mini keyboard? Who would not love the e-mail capability of the BlackBerry? Long a favorite of business types and professionals, the BlackBerry for the longest time dominated the ‘smart phone’ segment of mobile phones. We put [...]
Google takes a second shot at Windows with the Chromebox
There are certain ideas that look great on paper, make a heavy connection on an intellectual level, and seem to be really well-put together. However, once you take these ideas from the safe confines of a piece of paper and take them into the real word, they turn out to be less than stellar. Case [...]
Google and Microsoft tablets signal a key shift in strategy
As we have mentioned earlier at Ereviewguide.com, Google, Apple and Microsoft have widely diverging grand strategies regarding their products. To put in to most basic terms, Google is all about internet connections, Microsoft is all about the operating software and Apple is all about hardware devices. Given the recent announcement of Microsoft’s Surface tablet and [...]