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2006: The year of the QWERTY smartphone

Prior to this year we had a few Pocket PC Phone Edition devices, the Treo 600/650, a couple Nokia Communicators, Sony Ericsson P900/P910 models and, of course, RIM BlackBerry devices to choose from if we wanted a mobile device with a keyboard. Actually, now that I put that list together...

Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry, Smartphone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Palm Treo

Blog posts 2006-12-27

The QWERTY keyboard wasn't designed for mobile devices

Credit:www.exideas.com The selection was rather limited last year for people who wanted to purchase a phone-enabled mobile device with a QWERTY thumb keyboard. You had the ever popular RIM BlackBerry models targeted to the enterprise crowd, the very successful Treo 600 and 650, and...

Tags: QWERTY Devices, keyboard, QWERTY

Blog posts 2006-09-19

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$500 + Edubuntu = "a complete waste of money"?

I made a comment in an earlier post about Intel's latest Classmates that a pricepoint of $500 on a tablet-based Classmate loaded with Edubuntu would be incredibly attractive. One reader in particular, however, called this combination a "complete waste of money." Others pointed to the need...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Can Moore's Law last another 40 years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Moore's Law to last 40 more years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Performance, CMOS, Intel Corp., Moore, Nanotechnology, Memory, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Intel, carbon nanotubes, Moore's Law

Videos 2008-08-21

Apple puts on back-to-school full court press

Apple has always been a big player in the education market and this year it appears to be grabbing more share by selling Macs with iPod discounts among other moves. Let's connect a few dots: AppleInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?

I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Pricing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip

One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...

Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?

Intel's developer forum in San Francisco has more than its share of chest thumping and as the roadmap comes into focus you really wonder how competitors will respond. To be sure, Intel won't have a cakewalk, but it's making a lot of waves, creating new markets (Netbooks...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Nanospheres moving faster than light?

In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...

Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Palm Treo Pro officially announced, will come to U.S. as unlocked model only

It was no surprise to anyone that the Palm Treo Pro was coming since Palm themselves have been posting videos and images, but today it was officially announced. It was a bit surprising to see that no U.S. wireless carrier will be selling the Treo Pro and that it will...

Tags: Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-20

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?Thanks for asking.Everybody is talking about eBook readers, but nobody is asking what the market will pay for them.I love the Kindle, but I think it's a bit expensive, and your poll results show that...

Tags: E-books, e-book, eBooks volume

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...

Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Android security team appeals to bug hunters

Android security team appeals to bug huntersBravo GoogleWell done Google - It would be nice to see more organisations admit it's possible that they don't know everything and allow community groups particularly security groups to help. It seems virtually all new software contain security bugs these days (at least when...

Tags: Team management, SECURITY, Android security team, bug hunter, team

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.

When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...

Tags: Security, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Computer, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process

For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...

Tags: Site, Gazelle, TechForward, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Satellite Radio, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Windows 7 wishes

Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...

Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals

The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...

Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19

HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD

HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible tablet, are part of the new EliteBook line targeted at business users. The third is an HP Compaq model designed...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Chip, 2230s, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-19