Gadgetory

it's tuesday november eighth 2011 i'm brigitte carry on sina com and it's time to get loaded businesses can officially now create their own pages in Google Plus social network now these brand pages can interact with customers and circles and even have video hangouts depending on how creative a store can get with their hangout it might actually encourage people to use the network because let's get real here who is using google+ on a daily basis besides google employees and techniques and to make it even easier to find a brand page you can pull it up directly from a google search by typing in a plus sign followed by the company name like plus toyota or plus pepsi but it only works for a few brands now panasonic is launching a line of rugged android tablets that could take a beating and extreme temperatures it'll be called the Toughpad and there will be two models a 10-inch for about thirteen hundred dollars which will come out in the spring of next year and another seven inch model that will be released even later if that price tag sounds expensive well it's really an investment for businesses that want to have tablets withstand tough working conditions and and not so tough tablet news t-mobile announced it will sell an improved version of the 7 inch Galaxy Tab called the Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus it'll hit stores next week on November 16th and will use t mobile's 4g network it got a boost in speed with a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor and slightly better cameras three megapixels in the back and 2 megapixels in the front it's loaded with honeycomb Android 3.2 operating system and will cost 250 dollars after rebate in contract although you could just buy it now from Amazon without that contract for 400 bucks video game consoles are the most popular way for Americans to watch online entertainment on our televisions according to a report from Strategy Analytics the personal computer is still the most popular way to watch online video but when it comes to pulling that content to your home's biggest screen people are depending on the xbox 360 or ps3 now mine too it's only twelve percent of households using game consoles like this but it's still a larger chunk than people who connect their computer televisions via an HDMI connection also sixty-five percent of Xbox users under the age of 25 watch TV shows and movies primarily on a game console expect Nokia to make a big push in the US next year for its new windows phones the company just put a job at out for a developer evangelist based in California to encourage programmers to build apps for Windows Microsoft already has a few ways of buttering up programmers like offering free devices for testing and prominent positioning in the marketplace app store last month Nokia unveiled its newest windows phones for Europe and Asia but we won't see them for a few months those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey prasina calm and you just been loaded