Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans to launch its own-brand Chrome notebook with a similar strategy as its Nexus One smartphone, according to sources from component players.
Google's Chrome notebook is expected to be manufactured by Inventec with initial shipments to reach 60,000-70,000 units. The Google Chrome notebook will feature an ARM-based platform and will not be selling through retail channels.
Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation. The last technology that could be thought of as revolutionary, he says, was the Apple II personal computer introduced in 1977.
Apple has quietly reduce the price of its Mac Mini systems in all non-US markets today. Reducing the price of the base model by €100 in Europe and £50 in the UK.
But unfortunately for the US Mac fans the price will remain $699.
Google is suing the US government over what it claims is unfair competition with the likes of Microsoft, over a tender for a five-year contract to upgrade
an email system for the Department of the Interior. The lucrative US government contract is worth around $59 million.
In a move sure to outrage both file-traders on BitTorrent networks and legal watchdogs, a well-known
pornographer has filed a federal copyright suit against 7,098 individuals.
Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron
helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there.
But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds.
Депутаты Госдумы и участники интернет-индустрии готовят поправки в закон «О защите информации»,
вводящие юридическое определение спама. Пока очевидных способов призвать отечественных спамеров к уголовной ответственности нет, считают авторы законопроекта. По их оценке, Россия теряет от несанкционированных рассылок по электронной почте более 14 млрд руб. в год.
Арбитражный суд города Москвы во вторник признал недействительным решение
Государственной комиссии по радиочастотам (ГКРЧ) об отзыве у OOO "Антарес", ООО "Арктур" и ООО "Интеграл" частот в диапазоне 1900-1920 МГц в семи федеральных округах России. Ранее эти малоизвестные компании пытался приобрести владелец группы Е4 Михаил Абызов. Их частотный ресурс подходит для строительства федеральной сети мобильной связи в самом современном из стандартов — LTE.
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based
and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.
Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership
with Facebook. We’re really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On October 7, 2010, federal district court Judge James Ware
preliminarily approved a class action settlement related to the launch of Google Buzz last February. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed by Gmail users who alleged that Buzz's launch violated their privacy.
We covered the Table Connect for iPhone (a 58-inch surface that mirrors your iPhone screen) a few days ago, and now the developers posted a video of the “device” in action: as you
can see in the video above, the table requires you to start an app on the iPhone (likely available through jailbreak) and plug in the cable. Wifi is not supported at this point.
Google
Docs' source code includes a message that reveals some important upcoming features: "Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices".
I traveled to China to report on Foxconn and Shenzhen as part of a special feature for WIRED, which
will be published in an upcoming issue of the magazine. In the meantime, here's a small glimpse of some of the things I saw while in Shenzhen.
The Nielsen Company today reported that as of the third quarter of 2010, 28 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now have smartphones, cellphones with operating
systems resembling those of computers.
IDG News Service - SAP would pay Oracle $120 million for "past and future reasonable attorneys fees and costs" under the terms of a joint
stipulation filed Monday in connection with the companies' ongoing intellectual-property lawsuit.
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- A Turkish court ordered that access to Google Inc.’s
YouTube website be blocked again, days after the site was reopened following a 30-month ban.
Дочерняя компания Mirax Group — Mirax Technology в конце ноября запустит новый проект для соцсетей, который предложит каждому пользователю за 1—3 долл. проанализировать свое психическое и физическое состояние. Уже через полгода
менеджеры компании ожидают прибыль в размере 1,5 млн долл.
Мировой бестселлер планшет iPad, официальные продажи которого по всему миру с апреля уже превысили 7,46 млн шт., будет доступен российским покупателям с 10-11 ноября. Его стоимость в России, которую
наконец-то согласовали ритейлеры и производитель, оказалась выше, чем, например, в США и Японии, но ниже, чем в Великобритании, Италии и Германии: самая дешевая модель iPad обойдется в 19,99 тыс. руб. (Wi-Fi; 16 Гб), дорогая — в 32,99 тыс. руб. (Wi-Fi; 3G; 64 Гб).
В России грядет интернет-революция: до конца нынешнего года интернет может стать вторым медиа по объему размещенной рекламы. В III квартале интернет-компании уже практически догнали операторов наружной рекламы и печатные СМИ.
Один из крупнейших российских торговцев телефонами — «Связной» остался без iPhone. Так производитель аппаратов Apple наказал сеть за то, что она начала торговать iPhone 4 до начала официальных продаж в России.
Гендиректор Microsoft Стив Баллмер и президент фонда «Сколково» Виктор Вексельберг подписали меморандум о намерениях. Microsoft инвестирует десятки миллионов долларов в год — в основном в научные и исследовательские проекты. А взамен рассчитывает упрочить отношения с госсектором.