Toshiba's Thrive brings new colour to Android tablets

Toshiba's Thrive is  Toshiba's first tablet for the US market and was revealed  that Best Buy (US) will be taking with pre-orders beginning June 13th for a mid-July Ship date. Running Android 3.1, it will be sold in three capacities, 8GB ($429), 16GB ($479), and 32GB ($579).

The Thrive also gets the colour treatment with an assortment of delighful hues that go beyond just black and white. Powered by Tegra 2 processors and featuring WiFi, Bluetooth, full-sized USB and HDMI ports, an SD slot, a 2 MP front-facing camera plus a 5MP rear camera. No 3D nonsense on this model, just good old tablet features at a competitive price.

WWDC 2011 = Great Expectations

Photo of the Moscone Centre in San Francisco where WWDC takes place Photo by AppleInsider

Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC 2011) is the one time in the year that Apple gears up for huge hardware and software announcements (iPhone 4 was revealed there a year ago) targeted to its developer community. It is also the time of year when future projects and roadmaps are unveiled while the whole world watches.

For WWDC 2011 it is all about OS X Lion, iOS 5 and the mysterious new iCloud streaming service. We will be there to bring you the latest reports from the Steve Jobs keynote on Monday, 10:00 a.m. Pacific/ 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

GarageBand and iMovie for iOS updated

The two iPad apps that defy the, "tablets are only for content consumption, not creation," argument, iMovie for iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch (4G) and GarageBand for iPad 2 were updated today with a gamut of improvements in performance and reliability. Hit the jump for the full menu of upgrades.

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Breaking News: Windows 8 preview on video, shows tile-driven interface

Feast your eyes on the first look at Windows 8. The walkthrough shows the most striking revision to Microsoft's 25-year-old operating system and takes a lot of touch-controlled elements from Windows Phone. Visually, it's high-style and flashy but at least its original and different. What is interesting is we're seeing elements of mobile operating systems making it to the desktop. It's happening with iOS and OS X Lion and apparently Windows 8 is getting its fair share of the Mango treatment.