The first batch of reviews for the Asus Eee 900 is out there and so far they look good. Everyone loves the higher screen resolution, the extra memory (1GB), multi-touch and of course… the low-price!
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How do you know if your user interface and design is of an excellent standard? Why, other manufacturers start to adopt it and call it their very own. Teclast’s T50 is a portable media player that boasts a multitouch screen which supports both finger-swiping and pinching commands as found on the iphone. Other features include :-
There is no word on pricing, but it sure looks sweet though.
S3 is coming up with a small chip designed to bring DX10 and HD video processing to embedded systems that have drastic thermal requirements. Going into such a niche allows it to somewhat escape from the pressure from NVIDIA and AMD. They mention that the chip supports DX10, but I would be very surprised if it was actually capable of offering decent gaming performance. Let’s wait and see if any benchmarks pop up.
If you don’t know, S3 used to be a big player in the graphics industry, but has been outpaced by the two remaining high-end players.
Word has it that the new range of PMPs from Archos will feature GPS navigation within, allowing you to not only keep yourself entertained with movies and the Internet, but also get to your hotel room from the effort without ending up in some backwater place in a rented car. This sixth generation Archos will probably see the long overdue Archos 606 and 706 hit the streets. Hopefully the battery life will be able to keep up with this new functionality.
That’s pretty funny: we just published about Sony’s 0.3mm thick display and here they show a 0.2mm thick one. It has a lower resolution (320×220), but this is quite a lot thinner than the current LCD equivalent. Do I smell uber-thin gadgets? Yes! (This is just a prototype and it will not be used in mass production in the short-term)
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I wonder just how many times can Hello Kitty release an MP3 player - this version comes complete with a trio of different switchable ear phones consisting of one with a Hello Kitty red ribbon design, another with a pink crystal, and one with a crystal butterfly to complete the girly look. Each $139.99 purchase comes with 7 different games to help you kill time along the way. Strange for this mp3 player to not include any memory of that sort while charging such an exorbitant price - you will need to provide your own music via miniSD memory cards. You won’t see me touching this with a 10’ pole, that’s for sure.
Intel sees “growth opportunities as [they] continue to reap the benefits of [their] 45nm technology leadership,” according to Paul Otellini, Intel’s President and CEO. First quarter revenue was $9.7 billion with an operating income of $2.1 billion. Their net income was $1.4 billion, resulting in an earnings per share of $0.25.
Intel’s revenues consisted of their largest ever server processor sales, along with “a strengthening core business” and “healthy demand for [Intel’s] leading-edge processors and chipsets across all segments”. Gross margin was up 4% over last year. Revenues were up 9%. And operating income was up 23%.
Intel’s stock price over the last year, now $22.12, is nearly back on track with where it was 12 months ago, after seeing mid-year increases to nearly $28 and mid-year lows to $18.05. Intel is a global maker of microprocessors, chipsets, optical and digital networking chips and a host of related products. Intel is the world’s largest chipmaking company with annual revenues of $38.3 billion, up nearly 22% over 2006’s $31.4 billion. Intel’s chief competition is Samsung with their annual revenues in excess of $103 billion in 2007, only a portion of which (around $20 billion) relates to their semiconductor business. AMD is their most significant competition in x86 space, with annual revenues of $6.0 billion, which included a 6% increase over 2006, however that figure also included a $3.4 billion net loss.
Intel was also given the “Innovator of the Year” award last night (15th) at the 18th annual Innovation Awards in San Jose, California. Intel’s 45nm innovation team took home the award.
Is this suburban house the real home of the OpenMac?
Psystar, makers of the OpenMac (now hastily renamed “Open Computer”), plans to fight Apple for the right to preinstall OS X Leopard on its 3rd party hackintosh. Apple’s End User License Agreement expressly forbids installing the operating system on anything other than Apple hardware.
A spokesman for Psystar, named Robert (no surname given), told Information Week that his company believes Apple is committing some imagined anti-trust offense and violating US monopoly laws. Lets take a look at the arguments.
What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on the roads they said you could?
Then don’t buy it. This is a straw man argument. Apple’s EULA might forbid the use of its OS on third party hardware, but would never chase individuals who do this. The clause is aimed at corporations loading OS X onto machines and selling them, a practice which would cut into Apple’s hardware revenue. So Robert might better ask: “What if Honda said that it won’t allow other car makers to put its proprietary self-parking software in their cars?” In this case, Honda surely wouldn’t care if a lone hacker ported the system to an old Chevy Nova, but if Ford ripped it off wholesale, Honda would sue.
Robert also asks “What if Microsoft said you could only install Windows on Dell computers?”. There would be an outcry, of course, as this would be a clear case of collusion between two companies – which sell different but compatible products – to attempt to tie up the market and exclude competition.
Apple, on the other hand, owns the whole kit and caboodle. It makes the software and the box it runs on, and can do what the hell it likes. Apple might not let anyone else make and sell Macs, but, to return to the previous argument, Honda doesn’t let anyone else make and sell Hondas. The Mac is a combination of hardware and software: one product, not two. You might be able to buy a Leopard DVD in a store, but it is sold as an upgrade, not a standalone product.
It’s also a little odd that “Robert” refuses to give a last name. Anyone inside the company would surely know who he is (it’s a small outfit, as we’ll see in a moment), so the only reason to speak without a surname (or perhaps a pseudonym) is to protect himself from Apple, which seems to keeping very quiet on this issue, almost as if it didn’t care.
The Guardian’s Charles Arthur did a little digging into the company and found out that it didn’t exist until last week. No website, no presence at the Miami Chamber of Commerces (Psystar is based in Miami) and nobody answering the phones. Arthur managed to get ahold of an anonymous man on the support line number, but he was evasive: Remember that Arthur called the support line:
I’m not support. I’m just answering the phones.
The company seems to have mysteriously moved, too. The address changed from a small suburban house to an office in an industrial district. Is “Robert” the sole employee of Psystar? A quick look at the other products on the Psystar site shows a curiously eclectic selection, all of which have noncommittal, waffling descriptions. Communications Systems, Network Management Devices, Employee Management Systems, Surveillance Systems and Integrated Multimedia Systems.
Doesn’t it seem odd that the same company will install high end A/V equipment in your home and also manage your employee payroll data? I’m not saying that this is a scam setup, but there’s definitely something strange here. If the OpenMac exists, then the only worry is getting your order filled by this apparently sketchy outfit. If it doesn’t exist, what on Earth is going on?
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Dell announced its newest laptops in the Vostro line-up for small businesses including the new 13.3 inch Vostro 1310 and 15.4 inch Vostro 1510. A 17-inch version, the 1710, will also be unveiled in mid-May. Dell claims that these Vostros are the result of listening to customer feedback and quicly acting on them to improve the existing series. One of the examples highlighted was the fact that customers wanted data protection and pre-installed security software.
The new Vostro 1310 and 1510 feature a sleek design with slot optical drive making them thinner. The 13.3 inch Vostro features a 94% viewing area of a 14.1 inch model, while at the same time weighs 20% less. Dell has also thrown in 10GB of Dell DataSafe Online Backup with the laptops. Added security measures include fingerprint eaders, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2, McAfee Total Protection and others.
The Dell Vostro 1310 starts at US $749 and the 15.4-inch Dell Vostro 1510 starts at $599. Both are available today in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and will soon hit the North American shores and Asiapac/Japan region on May 1 and May 5 respectively.
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