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BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from Apple

For the past few months, writers have been churning out rumors about several new flavors of BlackBerry. Is RIM using careful leaks to beat Apple at its own rumor-fueling game? If you thought iPhone nano rumors were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. ...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, BlackBerry, RIM, smart phone, Apple, iPhone, rumors, development, Natasha Lomas, silicon.com

News items 2008-08-15

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UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II

Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...

Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?

A new proposal out of MIT (original home of the so-called $100 laptop from the OLPC) has gotten quite a bit of traction in the blogosphere and around the Web. A group of students, recalling their own early computing experiences in Apple II labs, is attempting to resurrect these...

Tags: Web, Apple II, $100 Laptop, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Laptop Computer, Computer, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup

"I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-11

The human cost of offshoring

A labor activist tells techies to be waryNatasha Humphreys, a laid-off software developer, says her story of overseas outsourcing and its impact is a "cautionary tale" for tech workers.

Tags: Outsourcing, labor activist

Videos 2004-05-03

Microsoft plans to work on cash pile

Microsoft plans to work on cash pileYou must be confusing them with Sun."It gets the monopoly thing off of Microsoft's"They don't seem to be worried about it."do actual investing"$6.2 Billion in R&D IS investing. Buying out Great Plains IS investing. Producing the XBox IS investing. (Get the...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Billg, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-02-26