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Tablet battery replacement

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:00:29 +0000

Can you replace a battery in a tablet? That’s a good question. It’s almost always possible. The question is whether tablet battery replacement is practical. Some companies make it really easy to replace a battery, and some make it really

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Expect a rough road ahead for Flash

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:00:05 +0000

Adobe has patched Flash twice in two weeks now. The reason for this was due to Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to government agencies, getting hacked. Hacking Team, it turns out, knew of at least three

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No, this doesn’t mean Ubuntu and Linux are giving up

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:00:19 +0000

This week, Mark Shuttleworth closed the longstanding Ubuntu bug #1, which simply read, “Microsoft has majority market share.” Because Microsoft didn’t lose its market share lead to Ubuntu, or Red Hat, or some other conventional Linux distribution, some people, including

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The low-cost tablet invasion

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:00:18 +0000

Over at PCMag, Tim Bajarin took notice of the low-cost tablet invasion. Don’t get too excited about the $89 tablet he just heard about; it’s a single-core, 1.2 GHz tablet with a 4:3-ratio 800×600 screen. For $89, it’s fine, but

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If you’re wondering where those anti-Google ads came from

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:36:44 +0000

If you’re wondering why political-style anti-Google ads are suddenly running everywhere, it’s no coincidence. Microsoft has hired one of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s advertising masterminds to try his hand at campaigning against Google. While it seems to be having some

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Linus Torvalds is right about “reasonable resolution”

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:39:21 +0000

Linus Torvalds is sick of the gimmicks, and he’s really sick of laptops sporting cheap 720p displays. He wants high-resolution (2560×1600, or even 2048×1536) displays to become standard. Having seen an Ipad with a 2048×1536 display in person recently, I

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The good (or at least decent) $89 tablet

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:44:10 +0000

Right around a year ago, I wrote about the difficulties of making a good $100 tablet. But then, today, I read on Slashdot about someone finding a nice $45 Android tablet in a Chinese bazaar, then finding a similar unit

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I’ve been reading up about tablets

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:02:57 +0000

I’ve been reading about the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet. And not surprisingly, the reviews are generally saying there’s not a lot of difference between the two. I’m pretty much ignoring the reviews that say [tablet x] is no

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Kindle Fire in perspective

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:03:07 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle Fire sold 95,000 units in its first day of pre-orders, which pales next to the Ipad’s 300,000 on its first day. But the Kindle Fire looks to be a slower burn. It’s sold 250,000 units now. By comparison,

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Amazon’s new Kindles look like rising stars

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:16:27 +0000

I’m a couple of days late and for that I apologize (I’ve been on the road), but this week Amazon released its anticipated Kindle tablet and snuck out a couple of new e-readers. The tablet–7 inches, a faster-than-rumored 1 GHz

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