The highly anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has received its first rumored launch date—March 2011. Digitimes is reporting that Research In Motion (RIM)’s Regional Vice-President Gregory Wade has told them that the PlayBook will hit the market by the end of the first quarter of next year. Yep, that means by the end of March 2011. Wade ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has put a video on YouTube showcasing just how fast its coming PlayBook tablet will be at loading and rendering web content. The PlayBook’s competitor in the video? None other than the iPad. You might be surprised at the result. Video after the jump! PlayBook versus iPad So what do you ...

No iOS 4.2 release yet despite the nearly constant stream of rumors concerning its launch this month. Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated that the update would come out in November and while the final beta build has gone out to developers to test with their apps, it still has not seen the light of day. ...

  The popular media player—VLC—has finally been released for the iPhone and iPod touch. An iPad version of the app has already been available, and it is good to see that the team behind the free software hasn’t forgotten about those with pocket sized iOS devices. In case you have never used VLC Media Player on ...

  Gotta love concept artwork and videos. The iPad 2 has gotten its own such special treatment from Joy Studios. I have to say, the concept video—which is actually a pseudo advertisement for the coming iPad 2—is very well done. If you didn’t know any better, you might think that it was a real Apple ad ...

Apple’s iPad is wildly popular and both AT&T and Verizon Wireless will start selling them in their own stores. A Verizon iPad!? Yes, you read that right. No, the iPad is not getting CDMA technology quite yet like everyone knows its little brother the iPhone 4 will be getting, but Verizon will be bundling Wi-Fi ...

GeoHot might have beaten the iPhone hacking Chronic Dev Team to the punch with his ‘Limera1n’ iOS 4.1 jailbreak, but they appear to be shaking it off with the release of ‘GreenPosi0n’ today. The Chronic Dev Team had planned to release GreenPois0n on 10/10/10, but veteran iOS hacker geohot released his own, different hack after ...

The year of the tablet will be here in only a few months and everyone wants to make one. Apple will most likely be releasing its iPad 2, Research In Motion (RIM) will be debuting the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and even HP will be releasing its own PalmPad tablet with Palm's WebOS. So many choices. ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) will be releasing its BlackBerry 'PlayBook' sometime early next year. How does it stack up against the Apple iPad? That's what I am here to answer. Keep in mind that a new iPad will be coming out next year of course, and that the PlayBook's specs and features might ...

Apple might have two new iPhone models in the works. BGR and 9to5 Mac have both discovered hints in the Apple TV and iPad respectively that support the idea. The iPhone 4 is known to Apple internally as the iPhone 3.1. Both the Apple TV and the iPad have internal references to an iPhone 3.2 ...

Apple's iOS users absolutely love their Apple products. Don't believe me? Consider some new numbers from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. According to the poll, iPad users have an amazingly high satisfaction of 82%. For comparison, this is the highest satisfaction of any manufacturer in history. The fact that Apple is scoring so high matches well ...

Apple has recently filed a patent that hints at a possible new direction for the company's iOS devices. Patent number 7,800,592 describes a system by which “a grid of capacitative sensing points” can load user profiles, be used to implement “button functions” and combines input from both or either hand(s) holding the device. Long story ...

The popular open source media player—VLC Media Player—has just hit the iTunes App Store for the iPad. The maker, Applidium, has also confirmed that an iPhone and iPod touch version are in the works but they decided to go with the iPad version first. The source code for the app is also available online already ...

Best Buy's CEO is sure to be stirring up some controversy with his latest remark that the iPad is cannibalizing up to 50% of PC sales. Brian Dunn made those remarks while being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. Do you believe that the number is that high? Sure, the iPad delivers quite a user ...

       The next version of iOS might show up on Apple's devices sooner than anyone expected. The first beta version of the new operating system has already been distributed. For those not paying attention to the endless stream of factoids floating about the iOS news sites, iOS 4.2 is the one that will unify Apple's iPod ...