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Simple Soooo Not Simple, Why?

thumpad.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:38:16 +0000

Based on the recommendation of a couple of friends I sat down at my computer and decided I would do the upgrade from XP to Windows 7. Little did I know what I was committing to! Like many a blind date, where you hold out hope for Mr. Right, but open the door to a guy wearing too tight pants and smelling slightly of ……

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coming in September 2010? Windows Mobile 7 LG phone

thumpad.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:46:27 +0000

Rumour has it that a Windows Mobile 7 phone could land as soon as September, courtesy of LG.The company had said at CES that it would be releasing a phone complete with the new operating system in 2010, but then rumours of a delay until 2011 made this claim appear unlikely.However, now a French tech-blog called Presse-Citron has been tweeting after a session at LG's Design Labs, stating that the company's first WinMo……

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Momo tracking engine for Windows Mobile, GestureTek brings Eyemo gesture control to Android

thumpad.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:27:18 +0000

GestureTek was showing off some of its gesture-based options for controlling your TV at last year's CES, and it's now back again with a few more slightly interesting pieces of software. That includes a version of its Eyemo software for Android, which is already available for range of other platforms, and lets developers take advantage of a phone's camera to add gesture control options to various applications — although that only involves gesturing with the device itself, not your h……

ITG's xpPhone gets options for larger screen and Windows 7

thumpad.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:13:22 +0000

It makes sense to release your mostly-theoretical (so far, anyway) desktop OS-based slider handset with the world's newest and best version of Windows, but it when your slider handset is dubbed “xpPhone” things become a bit more muddled. But that's the word from Pocketables, who's been in touch with ITG and learned that the MID / phone will not only ship with a Windows 7 option, but also be available in 4.3-inch, 4.8-inch and 7-inch screen sizes. There's also rumors of price ranging from……

Despite Haters, Windows 7 Performing Just Fine

thumpad.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:57:02 +0000

Apparently, some media outlets are so eager to see Microsoft fall flat on its face that they're already calling Windows 7 a failure — less than two weeks after its debut. Electronista and CNN Money have already declared that, with Windows 7, Microsoft has blown its chance to stop the rise of Mac.

According to Internet tracking firm Net Applications, Windows has seen its ninth drop in market share in the last twelve months, falling an astounding (cue eye-rolling) two-tenths of a percent in October…….

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New webOS version definitely shipping with a Palm Pixi

thumpad.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:06:46 +0000

Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the ……