- 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. Continue reading "techfile 11.3.09"
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- Responding to the success of micro-blogging site Twitter, Facebook announced a revamped homepage that is more “real time”. It is also adding new features to help businesses, celebrities and brands better connect with users.
- Just weeks after releasing the Kindle 2 to great fanfare, Amazon, which has found a breakout hit with its e-reader, made available a Kindle application for the iPhone. With 17m iPhones out there and probably just a few hundred thousand Kindles, Amazon just vastly increased the size of its potential readership, without needing to sell more of its $359 readers. Apple, which has been criticised for missing the ball when it comes to the e-reader, can be none too pleased.
- Hurt by slumping personal computer sales and a pullback in corporate spending, Adobe, maker of Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat, said first quarter revenue missed its forecasts, but that cost-cutting measures should allow the company to meet its profit targets. Shares were up in after-hours trading.
- In an unusual partnership, Cisco and Nasa have teamed up to develop a new set of tools to measure and analyse climate change. Nasa sensors will deliver data to Cisco’s networking technology, and the intended result will be a global monitoring system that tracks, for instance, deforestation in the rain forests.
Cisco v Microsoft in the digital home
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@CES, Las Vegas - What matters most about media is how easy it is to manage and move around.
That is the animating principle behind both Cisco and Microsoft’s view of the digital home. To judge from what each company has had to show off at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, it will define competition between the two for years to come. Continue reading "Cisco v Microsoft in the digital home"
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