Samsung may be onto something with the TouchWiz interface that it plans to release for the Galaxy Tab 10.1. A new promotional video for the tablet shows off what Samsung is calling “Mini Apps” — a collection of utilities that can be launched on top of other Android applications. These include a notepad, calendar, task manager, clock, music player and calculator.
In the race for smartphone dominance the Android OS reigns supreme with the once leading Blackberry OS drifting rapidly to the bottom of the heap. According to statistics from market analysts at Comscore Americans continue to turn away from Blackberry.
Windows Server 2008 R2 has been wrapped in a Windows 7-like user interface by platform vendor ThinkGrid, to allow businesses to rent hosted virtual desktops that look like Windows 7, but without its licensing costs. The desktops, introduced on Monday, include high-availability redundancy, antivirus protection and backup
Motorola has at long last reduced the Xoom’s entry price to $499, while Toshiba’s new Thrive starts at $429, bringing some needed price relief to the tablet market. New $499 pricing for the Wi-Fi Xoom.
ASSIMILATE has released SCRATCH Lab – a new digital lab tool for on-location workflows and VFX dailies pipelines. Released simultaneously on Mac OS X and Windows 7, SCRATCH Lab is a comprehensive end-to-end digital system for the review, versioning, color correction, conform and deliverables of dailies created during production, or the VFX process