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First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars
Apple’s doing the Oscars up right tonight — not only was Steve Jobs making friends on the red carpet , but the company ran the first iPad ad just now during the broadcast. It’s pretty much what you’d expect out of an Apple ad, but, you know, more magical
Acer kicks out laptop, netbook upgrades aplenty at CeBIT
Acer has rolled into CeBIT with a few all-new systems , but it’s also taken the opportunity to introduce some updates to its existing models, including six new revisions to its Aspire and TravelMate lines. Leading things off are the high(ish)-end Aspire 8942 and Aspire 5942, which pack 18.4 and 15.6-inch displays, your choice of the latest 2010 Core processors, an integrated TV tuner, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 1.2TB of storage (courtesy of to 640GB drives), and some niceties like a multitouch trackpad, and a CineSurround sound system with a “Tuba CineBass” booster
MeeGo repository going public later this month, coming to Nokia N900
Valtteri Halla — Nokia employee and one-half of MeeGo’s Technical Steering Group — has blogged up a storm this week about the first baby steps that’ll get the platform off the ground from its Moblin and Maemo roots, and from the sounds of things, we’ll be able to get our first glimpse at it on production hardware before the month’s out. Currently, the plan is to open up MeeGo’s code repository to all comers “by the end of this month,” targeting both Atom boards and the N900 . Now, we certainly wouldn’t say that MeeGo’s decision to use the N900 as an early target device is indicative of an official upgrade down the line — but this is particularly interesting in light of the fact that we’ve never gotten a commitment out of Nokia to bump its latest MID to Maemo 6
ASUS Eee PC 1015PE, 1015P and 1001PQ hands-on
Oh, you thought we were done with ASUS’ new Eee PC models at CeBIT.
HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 Series: Just tell us no, Microsoft
Dear Microsoft, We’ve had it up here with these shenanigans. You’re jerking us around, and we’re sick of it. We get it, you have a very particular concept of what sort of phones you want running your new Windows Phone 7 Series OS.
Nokia’s Terminal Mode spotted in the wilds of the Geneva Motor Show
Those lovely people over at Nokia have furnished with a few images of what their dashboard integration will look like, as well as the names of a few more partners for its Terminal Mode initiative.
