Last week, RIM announced that they will be releasing their own 7-inch tablet, called the BlackBerry PlayBook. Expected to arrive in early 2011, the PlayBook will weigh less than a pound and will measure less than a centimeter in thickness.

Like that old Volkswagen in your garage, your PC gets slower and crappier over time. Here’s a short guide on cleaning it up without needing a reformat or reinstalling Windows.

How many times have we all turned on our PCs just to sit there for 3 or 4 minutes while it boots up or shuts down? Your applications open like molassas, your harddrive grinding away as Windows tries to populate the icons on your desktop. This isn’t the way it used to be. Your computer used to be impressively fast. You would call people into your home office, and show off your speedy startup. Now it’s all different, and this is no way to live.

[This is a guest post by GURU 'Nook Expert', Jennifer Adams]
When Amazon’s Kindle debuted in 2007, I turned my nose up at it, because it wasn’t a “real book.” “Real books” have paper pages and smell like ink. You can peruse “real books” in brick & mortar stores where the smell of the pages [...]

HTC Incredible customers are reporting that with the latest “over-the-air” update on their Android OS (2.2), battery life seems to have been extended by nearly 60 percent. The new OS update was promising greater performance by accelerating JAVA and Javascript execution. But with a mega fast 1ghz processor, the performance updates don’t seem to be the feature that stands out the most.

This is good news for anyone still on the fence on deciding to go with an Andriod OS based phone. Droidx customers, unfortunately, will have to wait a few weeks for the 2.2 update. So keep those charges close by in the meantime.

Someone needed to do it and who better than Microsoft with the introduction of their webcam, LifeCam Studio. Standard HD rate on the camera is at 720p, however, the 2011 launch of Window’s Live Messenger (currently in beta) has the capability of supporting video calling in 16:9 format.

Microsoft has announced a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, set to debut on September 15, 2010, at a launch event in San Francisco. They have hyped their latest release as “beautiful” and claim that “IE9 will change the web forever.”

[The following is a guest post by GameMaker 'expert', Will Cook]
The main objective of most games is to accomplish a goal and the game creator has the task of providing obstacles and enemies to try and prevent you from reaching that goal.
Have you ever wanted to create your own game? Have you always [...]

Some of us have been experiencing the internet since the early 90’s. In 1992 the first commercial companies started offering internet access to users. Since then the internet has grown and changed drastically, but there are a few things which have remained constant…

Creating a big, multi-billion dollar enterprise like Microsoft or Google takes a certain type of personality. You must do things nobody else has done. Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin all saw the value in new technologies and worked to make them a reality. Now, both of these companies are competing in the software market. Microsoft has long dominated the email, office tools, and web browser markets. Their customer list is enormous and most new PC consumers still find Microsoft software pre-installed. Even with well-established alternatives like OpenOffice and Lotus Notes from IBM, Microsoft is leagues ahead of everybody else. This is where Google steps in.

Developed by research teams at the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science, India recently unveiled a 1,500 rupee touchscreen tablet prototype, equivalent to $35 US dollars. This price encompasses all of the hardware, including the motherboard, processor, 2GB memory, wireless card, display, as well as the software which will be Linux-based.