One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.

A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.

Si tu me montres le tiens, je te montre le mien ! Dans un renvoi d’ascenseur prévisible, l’équipe juridique de Samsung a demandé à Apple de lui remettre la version de la prochaine génération de l’iPhone et iPad pour s’assurer que ses propres dispositifs futurs ne seront pas soumis à la même infraction d’imitation (dans le cadre de la poursuite exécutée par Apple le mois dernier).

Asus risque de faciliter la tâche aux personnes qui n'arrivent pas à se décider entre un smartphone et une tablette. Selon des fuites en ligne, le fabricant taïwanais est sur le point de présenter le Padfone au salon informatique Computex 2011, qui se déroule du 31 mai au 4 juin. Le site PocketNow a en effet révélé des images d'un nouveau concept de tablette. Après le Motorola Atrix, qui permet de transformer un smartphone en netbook lorsqu'il est connecté à un dock, le Padfone se présente comme une tablette numérique dans laquelle vient se loger un smartphone. Ce dernier devrait tourner sous...

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.

Welcome to the second installment of our list of top SSDs at at any given price point. This month we see the announcement of several new drives from OCZ, availability of Crucial's m4 lineup (at expected prices), and the emergence of new SF-2200 options.

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.