Blackberry Boss: Playbook will Cost ?Under $500?

Blackberry’s Playbook tablet will go on sale in the first quarter of next year for “under $500″, according to Blackberry co-CEO Jim Balsillie. Speaking to Bloomberg, he said that the 7-inch tablet “will be very competitively priced.”
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New Tron Legacy trailer. I said, NEW TRON LEGACY TRAILER! By the way, Disney, this movie better be good or I will kidnap Mickey, drown him in gasoline and torch that bloody rat. Watch it and get into the grid. More »

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Geordi La Forge Has Some Advice For NASA [Blockquote]

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Crux 360 case converts your iPad into a netbook for $149 (video)

Hello, trend. The Crux 360 is the third such device that we've seen in the past two months, and if we had to guess, we'd say it probably won't be the last. That said, it's easily the best looking of the bunch, and it's available to pre-order beginning today. For all intents and purposes, this case transforms your iPad into a netbook (at least, a netbook sans a bona fide operating system), but it's also capable of flipping back in order to become a kickstand. A Bluetooth keyboard is built right into the "lid," and if you're in need of little visual explanation, a video is waiting just after the break. $149 and she's yours... someday.

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Skyfire browser brings Flash video to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Filed under: iPhone, Browsers, Mobile

After a rigorous review process lasting more than a month, Skyfire will become available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch from Thursday. Skyfire's main trick is the transcoding of Flash video into HTML5 video, which iOS supports. There's a video of it in action after the break.

Skyfire for iOS -- assuming it's functionally identical to the Android version that we reviewed in July -- is also a competent Web browser. The Flash-to-HTML5 video is obviously the unique selling point, but there's a nice 'social' layer that it adds on top of your built-in Safari browser. It lets you one-click share with Twitter and Facebook, and you can find 'related' content to the page you're on. The Skyfire website also touts a 'private browsing' function, though if your phone finds its way into someone else's hands you probably have more important things to worry about.

The Flash-on-iOS thing -- which is only video, not games or interactive websites -- is enabled by on-the-fly transcoding of Flash video into a format that your iOS device can display. Yes, Skyfire has a big bank of servers that actually re-encodes video while you browse -- and that's why the app will cost you $2.99 when it goes live on Thursday.

[via AppleInsider]

Skyfire browser brings Flash video to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Chrome for Mac getting confirm to quit option

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Those of you who use Google Chrome on a Mac will soon have a handy option added to your browser of choice. It's called 'confirm to quit', and it does exactly what you'd expect. Upon activating the confirmation, Chrome will display a prompt if you press Command+Q -- which you'll then need to hold for another second and a half to actually quit. It's handy for those times when you meant to tap Command+W to close only your current window, but missed. Should you quit via the menu bar, the prompt will not appear.

Revision 64920 marks the feature's arrival in the Chromium for Mac builds, and users who want to give it a go can enable confirm to quit on the about:flags page. In case the warning Chrome provides isn't enough, remember: about:flags can crash your browser, warp your LPs, and cause premature baldness.

Here's hoping the feature makes its way to Chrome on other operating systems as well. Anyone who's ever gotten a bit trigger happy while closing tabs and accidentally shut their whole browser down would probably welcome a confirm to close option.

Google Chrome for Mac getting confirm to quit option originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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