- They’re still just rumours, but they’ve gotten stronger. A day after leaks from Taiwan suggested Apple might be preparing a touch-screen netbook, sources told Dow Jones Newswire that the new computers, which will be designed primarily for web browsing and mobile computing, will have touch-screens between 9.7 and 10-inches.
- Google’s Gmail has suffered another outage, which it said had affected only a “subset of users”, but comes only two weeks after a major global crash of the service. Gmail’s increasing popularity was highlighted in a Hitwise blog post and charts that showed it overtaking YouTube.
- Google and Cisco are seen as top contenders to enter the Dow Jones Industrial Average now that two stalwarts, Citigroup and General Motors, are both trading below $2. Apple is also being mentioned as a possible inclusion to the Dow.
- One week after Palm investor Roger McNamee predicted Palm’s new Pre would steal market share away from Apple‘s iPhone, Palm sought to limit the damage by filing a Free Writing Prospectus with the US Securities Exchange Commission that distanced the company from McNamee’s statements. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, McNamee said the Pre was “going to be a million times-well, not a million times-several times faster” than the iPhone, and that “not one” person who bought an iPhone on the first shipment date “will still be using an iPhone” when the Pre is released. Palm also upped its latest stock offering and raised $83.9m, sending shares higher.
- Qualcomm said on Tuesday the Korea Fair Trade Commission had issued a report containing allegations as to the lawfulness of some business practices. They relate to bundling of its multimedia software into its chipsets and rebates and discounts given to its customers. The San Diego-based company said it believed its actions were lawful and it would respond to the allegations in the next few months. US rivals TI and Broadcom and local Korean companies Nextreaming and Thinmultimedia had complained to the FTC about Qualcomm’s business practices as long ago as 2006.
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