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Barnes & Noble has introduced a $249 Nook Tablet on Monday, at the beginning of the holiday shopping season in the growing markets for e-books and handset computers.

Barnes & Noble has introduced a $249 Nook Tablet on Monday, at the beginning of the holiday shopping season in the growing markets for e-books and handset computers.
Both Barnes & Noble and Seattle-based Amazon.com are competing with Apple and its dominant-iPad for the holiday pie. The Nook Tablet has approached many weeks after Amazon.com introduced its Kindle Fire handsets for $199 and be available on Nov. 15. According to Barnes & Noble, its tablet will provide more memory and longer battery life.
The company has decreased the prices of its existing e-readers. The Nook Color is now $199, down from $239, and the Nook Simple Touch black-and-white reader is now $99, down from $139.
The Nook Tablet will be available in stores and be in consumers’ hand on Nov. 17. Similar to the Nook Color, it is equipped with a 7-inch color touch-screen. Different from Amazon, Barnes & Noble doesn’t provide streaming services. However,  the Nook consists of preloaded apps from Hulu and Netflix that enables consumers to subscribe to stream movies and TV shows.
Since introducing its first Nook in 2009, Barnes & Noble has spent heavily on its e-book readers and e-bookstore. Because many customers change the way they read, the company also confronts with tough competition from discounters and online retailers in the market for traditional books. The Nook Tablet weighs less than a pound, brings a battery that allows nine hours of video watching with 16 gigabytes of memory and an SD slot to add more.
Analysts at Gartner predict that three of every four handsets sold this year will be an iPad. Apple has sold about 29 million since they first came out in April 2010. Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com generally do not give new sales figures.
The Nook Tablet will be sold online, in Barnes & Noble stores by a variety of other retailers, consisting of Best Buy, Target, Staples and Fry’s.

Panasonic, famous for reliable laptop PCs, has just introduced new pair of Toughpad handsets for business and government users who wants to seek everything from hardware-level security to an enterprise-oriented app store.

Panasonic, famous for reliable laptop PCs, has just introduced new pair of Toughpad handsets for business and government users who wants to seek everything from hardware-level security to an enterprise-oriented app store.

The Toughpad A1, which will be available in the market in the spring of 2012 costing $1,299, is a 10.1-inch Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) handset with 1GB of RAM, a 1.2-GHz Marvell dual-core processor, 16GB of storage (MicroSD optional up to 32GB), and 10 hours of battery life. It’s on the hefty side at 2.13 pounds plus the stylus pen. However, its sturdy construction brings a 4-foot MIL-STD-810G drop rating, resistance to dust and water ingress, operating temperatures from 14 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Front- and rear-facing cameras and a serviceable battery are standard, with 4G (LTE or WiMAX) optional.

This handset is targeted at managers and workers in aviation, construction, field sales, and healthcare who will appreciate the A1′s hardware and software encryption, dual-factor authentication, custom deployment and device management not found in consumer handsets, with support for everything from one-to-many application distribution to securing devices from unauthorized use. A secure, cloud-based storefront known as Business AppPortal will supply a variety of vertical market applications a long with security and virtualization solutions.
A 7-inch Toughpad B1 will be available later in 2012; but its price and tech specs have not yet been revealed.

Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich is going to release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus later this month, but it is wondered when their phones will get an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade.

Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich is going to release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus later this month, but it is wondered when their phones will get an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade.
On Monday, HTC has given their answers on its Facebook page, though not many exact dates appears when an update will come.
The Taiwanese smartphone and tablet maker reported that the new Android OS – the initial that Google has designed for both smartphones and handsets will introduce eight tablets in 2012: Sensation, the Vivid, Sensation XL, Sensation XE, Evo 3D, Evo Design 4G, Amaze 4G and the Rezound.
They are continuing to assess their handset portfolio, so consumers can wait for more updates on device upgrades, timing and other details about HTC and Ice Cream Sandwich.

Microsoft has considered a temporary repair to the pernicious Duqu virus known as Son of Stuxnet which could impact users of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 a long with Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft has considered a temporary repair to the pernicious Duqu virus known as Son of Stuxnet which could impact users of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 a long with Windows Server 2008.

The company promised the security update at the beginning of this week to solve the virus, which targets victims through email with a Microsoft Word attachment. The virus is not in the email, but in the attachment.

The company is also working on a “high-quality securities upgrade to address” Duqu. According to Jerry Bryant of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group on the company’s blog, the security advisory supplies a workaround that can be applied to any Windows system. To make it easy for consumers, they have introduced a Fix that will enable one-click installation of the workaround and an easy way for enterprises to deploy.

Security researchers are alert of Duqu in October when Symantec had unveiled a virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet. Symantec’s Vikrum Thakur told Red Tape’s Bob Sullivan last month that the authors of the virus are brilliant and mean business, and that Duqu may be looking to gather intelligence as a precursor to a future industrial-strength attack on infrastructure computers.
If successful, the Duqu attacker could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

This week, Barnes & Noble have revealed the latest addition to their NOOK family which looks rather similar to the NOOK Color of the past but features with a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor.

This week, Barnes & Noble have revealed the latest addition to their NOOK family which looks rather similar to the NOOK Color of the past but features with a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor.

Inside, the device will be equipped with 16GB of internal storage a long with a microSD card slot which can take 32GB, battery life of 4 hours of video playback (with wi-fi on) or 8 hours off. This tablet will connect over Wi-fi only and features the similar 7-inch VividView IPS display as the NOOK Color. The device has been thinned out by .02 inches, made lighter by .9 ounces, increased in built-in storage by 8 GB. In addition, this tablet seems to be similar to the original NOOK Color.
Moreover, there’s a bump in NOOK Color software which now features Hulu Plus but consumers can not access to Rhapsody, MOG, and Grooveshark. Certainly, Pandora still runs as it comes pre-installed. Real Simple and The New Yorker have been included to the Barnes and Noble library, and games like Scrabble have been added to the basic NOOK Color store of games.

The current NOOK Color will be sold with the suggested price of $199 soon while the new NOOK handset will be $249.

For weeks, Microsoft has been organizing some "big" events in New York City on Monday.

For weeks, Microsoft has been organizing some “big” events in New York City on Monday. The big event will have the participation of Windows Phone President Andy Lees and Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president for Windows Phone program management. In addition, there’s a public event at noon (Eastern time, 9 a.m. Seattle time) at NYC’s Herald Square.

It is speculated that Microsoft will be unveiling the price and availability in the U.S. of the HTC Titan, the big 4.7-inch handset running Windows Phone Mango.
Microsoft, which currently keeps 2 percent of the global smartphone market, less than 6 percent of the U.S. market, has been pushing lately to make more people aware of Windows Phone. A Seattle Inner Circle event is planned for Nov. 21 at Pnk Ultra Lounge.

The newest creation for Google search won’t make consumers waste four more seconds of their lives. The trick will also run in mobile editions of Google search.

The newest creation for Google search won’t make consumers waste four more seconds of their lives. The trick will also run in mobile editions of Google search. Google explains that “do a barrel roll” was created by a Google software engineer who wanted to entertain consumers while showing the power of CSS3, a presentation spec of newer browsers.

It is reported that users can create the similar motion by Google searching for “ZZ” or “RR” which refer to the Nintendo video game Star Fox 64.
The barrel roll won’t run on all browsers because it was established in HTML5, which is best supported by Firefox and Chrome.