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Entelligence: Time for Microsoft to once again embrace and extend

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. A core part of Microsoft’s strategy from days gone by was known as embrace and extend.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater wind farms, and the Automotive X Prize

Switched On: Photography is dead, long live photos

Admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:15:00 +0000

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. Portraying the digital still camera as an endangered species has been a popular pastime for years in the cellphone industry, and with the high-resolution stills and high-definition video capabilities of the latest round of smartphones, the argument is more convincing than ever when applied to the casual snapshot. But this week at the World Expo in Shanghai, Canon — a name synonymous with high-quality photography — offered a vision of a device that not only supersedes the digital still camera, but will likely eliminate photography as we know it.

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Entelligence: The evolution of the TV

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. > In a world of connected screens, the venerable TV continues to wait in isolation while the personal computer and the cell phone have become ubiquitously connected.

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Sharp’s LR388G9 LCD controller suggests more products with dual screens

Admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:47:00 +0000

While we’ll let competitors tell us whether the chip’s “an industry first,” Sharp’s certainly serious about devices with twin screens — this new LR388G9 controller chip pumps pixels simultaneously to each of two 1,024 x 480 LCDs.

Amazon Kindle dual-screen e-reader patent granted, Barnes & Noble Nook potentially in trouble

Admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:04:00 +0000

Looks like the battle for e-reader dominance between Amazon and Barnes & Noble could soon expand beyond the recent spate of price drops and into the courtroom as well: the USPTO just granted a 2006 Amazon patent on e-readers with secondary LCD displays (like the original Kindle’s scroller-navigation panel ), and several of the claims are potentially broad enough to cover the Nook and many other devices with both electronic paper and LCD displays. What’s more, Amazon agreed not to file for any corresponding foreign patents during the four-year approval process and thus wasn’t required to publish the patent application — meaning this is likely a complete surprise to the entire industry

HannStar Display shells out $30m to settle LCD price fixing case

Admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Another day, another company pleading guilty to their role in a massive global price-fixing conspiracy surrounding the MSRP of LCDs. The Taiwan-based HannStar Display agreed (grudgingly, we surmise) this week to cough up a whopping $30 million for its role in the scheme, marking the seventh company to ” plead or agree to plead guilty as a result of the department’s investigation into the LCD industry.” All told, the US Department of Justice has seen some $890 million paid out and 17 executives charged, with HannStar in particular being pegged for violating the Sherman Act during its participation in the conspiracy from September 2001 to January 2006.

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Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search

Admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:02:00 +0000

Look out, Kayak / Bing Travel — you both are about to have your respective worlds rocked. While Google has managed to stay on top (or close to the top) when it comes to almost everything search related, the company has curiously allowed smaller niche brands to handle the travel side

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Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search

Dell responds to latest capacitor-related fallout, ignores the whole lying to consumers part

Admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:09:00 +0000

The “capacitor plague” issue of the early 2000′s has started to resurface, not thanks to another batch of bogus orange-hued electrolytes popping free, but this time thanks to the release of documents relating to a three year-old Dell lawsuit. As we reported earlier this week , those docs show that Dell asked customer service reps to deny there was any problem with their motherboards, telling them to pretend they’d never heard about the issue and to “emphasize uncertainty.” Now, Dell is responding to the latest flare up — sort of

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Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom

Admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:29:00 +0000

Charles Davies might not be as immediately recognizable as some other industry veterans, but anyone that’s been following this business since the early days of PDAs will no doubt be familiar with his work.

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Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom