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Nokia and Microsoft, Together They Could Dial It Up to Eleven
Nokia has suffered somewhat as it’s tried very hard to get its MeeGo platform up to spec but the market just isn’t giving it the goods it needs. In spite of taking aim at the iPhone, they have certainly been falling a bit short. Not long after the last release of MeeGo and it’s merger ...
NBC Universal Merger Means Community Service for Comcast, $10/month Internet for the Poor
We’ve been keeping our eye on the FCC’s take on the NBC Universal-Comcast merger with expectation as it would be a game changer for much of the media production and distribution industry. Well, it looks like the FCC and the DOJ have finally OKed the merger, but they’ve done so with a series of demands ...
EMC Reveals VNXe Turnkey Storage and Network Infrastructure Solution
Small and medium sized businesses looking for storage and network solutions can now use EMC to breathe easier when it comes to their IT concerns. With the release of the VNX family for unified storage solutions, EMC has created an affordable and powerful solution for just the sort of things that small and medium companies ...
Apple Reports Earnings this Evening, In the Wake of Jobs’s Medical Leave Analysts Not Concerned
This week, Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced an indefinite leave of absence from his company for medical reasons. The proclamation caught the tech industry by surprise and ripples of concern ran through the media, pondering what direction investors and the market might head with this particular event generating uncertainty. He emphasized that he’s not ...
iOS Update Adoption Soars as Android Struggles With Fragmentation Woes
As platforms such as firmware and OSes update users are urged to download the new versions and patches, but as time goes on the number of adopters of various patches and updates begins to diverge. In industry parlance, this is known as platform fragmentation and Google Android appears to be fairly much steeped in it. ...
The Music of the Spheres, Kinect as a Theremin Controller
One might argue that every musical instrument is controlled by the body—from the strumming the strings of a guitar, blowing into a saxophone, striking the keys of a piano—but no instrument is controlled quite like the theremin. Patented in 1927 and originally known as the aetherphone, the musical instrument looks like something that came off ...
Steve Jobs Medical Leave Stirs Speculation about Apple’s Direction
Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has been tapped to take over the software and mobile mega-giant in CEO Steve Job’s absence as he goes on holiday to focus on his health. Jobs’s medical history now has become a rocky road filled with strange adversity after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. Since ...
Android Apps Appear to Make Use of NFC
We just got the news that the Google Nexus S with Android 2.3 would support Near-Field Communication we’ve seen news that developers have already jumped on the bandwagon and produced the first NFC applications. According to the aptly named Near Field Communications World blog, they these first two apps are named Taglet and EnableTable—a Japanese ...
Google Voice Now With Google Translate
Google Voice brought us a sort of bridge between the Web and voicemail—I’ve been using it for quite some time now—but what we’ve really been itching for is something that’s been hinted at for a while: the ability to translate live speech into other languages. The Voice product already capably transcribed voicemails (although sometimes with ...
Microsoft May be Facing an Xbox 360, Kinect Shortage
In a trend where success can be its own defeat, rumors are spreading that Microsoft might be facing a shortage of their Xbox 360 consoles and Kinect peripherals. In an article on VentureBeat, they examine the total number of units shipped and produced in yet-another-logistics-beatdown for the software giant. Microsoft saw huge demand for the ...