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HARDWARE
REVIEWS
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Scanstik is a pen sized hand held scanning device. You can carry it everywhere, in its own leather pouch, in purse, or clipped to your belt like first generation geeks used to carry their slide rules.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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On AsiaD conference, the last day featured a fireside chat with Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Jen-Hsun gave out more information on T30.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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The Wall Street Journal passed out their Technology Innovation Awards. They stuck with known electronics brands, IBM, HP, Xerox and eInk for first place slots, Novartis for tracking medical supplies, and Abbott Labs.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BLOGS
NEWS
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Wake up and smell the bandwidth America! People don't want compelling content. If they did, newspapers, CNN, Newsweek and other "serious" media wouldn't be in trouble.
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SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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At Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD conference, HP CEO Leo Apotheker said, "I happen to believe that WebOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. It's not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices."
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Motorola defends the Xoom's price tag by pointing out it offers a free upgrade path to a 4G modem that delivers data speeds of up to 50Mb/s, which justifies the $800 price point for the 32GB 3G model.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
RUMORS
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An inexpensive, smaller iPhone nano might trade local memory for cloud-based storage. This would presumably keep the costs down and help trim its appearance to about half the size of iPhone 4, sources claim.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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iPad 2 is on the assembly line and both Verizon Wireless and AT&T will carry it, says WSJ. Expect FaceTime cameras, faster performance, better graphics, flashier games, thinner profile and more.
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APPLE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Apple is set to report record-breaking holiday quarter results after the bell today. Does a drop in Apple's share price on the news of Steve Jobs' sick leave presents a buying opportunity ahead of earnings?
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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While you were away: Verizon iPhone to come with a higher price tag and lure folks with unlimited data plans. It's gonna hurt AT&T big time by adding 12M new subscribers for Verizon while taking away 6.5M sales from AT&T in 2011.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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If the juicy news of a rumored Verizon iPhone arrival got blood pumping through your veins, hold your horses - the new hardware might not go on sale for at least three weeks.
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SOFTWARE
RUMORS
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Sources say Microsoft is pursuing a Windows version optimized for tablets and designed to run on ARM's CPU designs. A formal announcement is allegedly slated for the Consumer Electronics Show next month.
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ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Apple has lost its senior VP of iPhone engineering. Mark Papermaster has changed his business address, moving from Apple to Cisco Systems according to the Wall Street Journal.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, is taking on a new persona. Perhaps his new nickname will be Buz Stone, or Biz Stoned. His latest venture is being a pitch man for alcohol.
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APPLE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
NEWS
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You flip through the virtual pages of an e-book and suddenly stumble upon one of those annoying iAds from Apple. According to an analysis on WSJ, dwindling profits are forcing e-publishers to embedding advertisements.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Intel-nVidia Spat over chipset licensing arguably has led to a lawsuit from the FTC. Now, researcher Agner Fog raised controversy with his article titled "Will Intel be forced to remove the "cripple AMD" function from their compiler?"
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The latest installment of Intel's legal sagas consists of rumors that the FTC is going to prosecute them very soon. We asked Intel for a comment about the possibility of them being investigated by the FTC.
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ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Nokia Siemens Networks [NSN], the Finnish-German joint venture, said it will buy the CDMA and LTE assets of Canadian-based Nortel Networks in a $650 million deal to strengthen its position in North American markets.
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