HP Says Apple Is Not TouchPad’s Target
Jim Dalrymple, interviewing HP’s vice president of worldwide developer relations Richard Kerris:
HP acknowledged Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, but said
Apple wasn’t its target with the TouchPad.
“We think there’s a better opportunity for us to go after the
enterprise space and those consumers that use PCs,” said Kerris.
“This market is in its infancy and there is [...]
Yeah, Sure, That’s the Ticket
Matt Hartley, reporting for The Financial Post:
Research In Motion Ltd. will create a committee that will examine
possible changes to its corporate structure, including the
possibility of separating the co-chairman and co-chief executive
roles of its leaders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, after a
shareholder group threatened to put forth a motion to consider the
changes at the company’s forthcoming [...]
Open Letter From an Anonymous ‘High-Level RIM Employee’
Devastating and comprehensive examination of the hole RIM is in, purportedly sent to BGR from a company insider. (RIM’s version of Mini-Microsoft?) Their products offer uncompetitive user experiences, their management is riddled with bozos, their plans are unfocused, they have no expertise in the areas where they lag the competition, and their marketing stinks.
Amazingly, RIM [...]
HP’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Microsoft
Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company:
“I’m limited to what I can talk about with Windows 8,” McKinney
says. “We’re working very closely with [Microsoft], and I’m going
to leave it at that or I’m going to start getting myself into
trouble.”
Any chance of a Windows 8 tablet, though? “We currently have a
product shipping today called the Slate 500, [...]
Panasonic 2012 Olympics cameras and camcorders hands-on
Limited edition products for London games
Panasonic has unveiled a range of Olympics-branded products for the 2012 games in London and we were able to get our hands on some of them for a sneak preview.
The new product lineup is set to include cameras, camcorders, headphones and SD cards and will be headed up by an [...]
iTunes Festival London 2011 gets live streaming app with AirPlay support
Watch concerts in your living room
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Apple it to stream this year’s iTunes Festival held in London of more than 60 artists over 31 nights to iPhones, ipads, the [...]
All Things Chickenshit
Federico Viticci at MacStories <a href="http://www.macstories.net/stories/the-ipad-now-with-100,000-apps-available/”>noted an ipad milestone today:
Either specifically targeting the tablet, or released as universal
updates to existing iPhone apps, at the moment of writing this
there are 100,161 ipad apps in the Store. How do I know? The App
Store app itself on my ipad shows that.
Ina Fried, reporting for AllThingsD, credits the scoop [...]
Amazon Associates Program Terminated in California Immediately
Joel Falconer at The Next Web:
Amazon informed Californian users of the Amazon Associates program
earlier today that they’d no longer be permitting Californians
to participate by the end of September if the online retailer
sales tax bill was made law. The governor today passed the bill,
and Amazon says it has been forced to move the deadline up.
They aren’t [...]
American McCarver: Your Sports Blog
In case you missed it, my new sports gig, with an all-star staff of writers, and Mike Monteiro.
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In U.S., Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases
Nielsen:
According to Nielsen’s May survey of mobile consumers in the
U.S., 38 percent now own smartphones. And 55 percent of those who
purchased a new handset in the past three months reported buying a
smartphone instead of a feature phone, up from 34 percent just a
year ago.
34 to 55 is a huge year-over-year leap. What will the number [...]
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