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- Nook Fails First Test With Critics; Mossberg: 'Wait'; Pogue: 'Slow, Buggy'
- It’s not that rare for Walt Mossberg and David Pogue to share some common views on new gadgets but when both of them wave you off a product, it stands out. That’s the case with the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook, which Mossberg terms “not fully baked”...
- External links 2009-12-10
- Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble; Claims Breach Of NDA
- Somehow a lawsuit had to be lurking ... Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which took a spin on the floor with just about everyone before announcing its own e-reader, is being sued by Spring Design for misappropriation of trade secrets and violating a non-disclosure agreement. Cupertino-based Spring claims B&N...
- External links 2009-11-03
- City of Orlando Operations Center
- Housed in a nondescript bomb-proof building at an undisclosed location, Orlando's Operation Center is the top secret hub for all of the city's police, fire and EMS emergency communications. It is also home to the Orlando's terrorist response team, with offices for the mayor and staff. In an effort to...
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- Nokia's First Touchscreen: It's No iPhone, It's More Sociable
- Nokia's first mass-market phone with a touchscreen was always going to suffer from the inevitable iPhone comparisons. After using it for a week, I've concluded the XpressMusic 5800 is no iPhone killer - nor is it trying to be. Extending the hallmark Symbian S60 to accommodate touch interaction whilst...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Microsoft leads USD24m round in N-Trig
- Microsoft is leading a USD24m round in Israeli startup N-Trig, along with Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture Partners. N-Trig manufactures touch screens for computers that are already used in the HP TouchSmart and Dell Lattitude XT. ...
- Articles 2009-01-14
- Atmel Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question is from the line of Craig Hettenbach with Goldman Sachs. Craig Hettenbach - Goldman Sachs Steve, you mentioned Touch as an area that you are pursuing aggressively for 2009. Can you just talk about Atmel's positioning with Quantum and ABR, and...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-04
- Report: Sony's New E-Readers Come With Discounts?But Still No WiFi
- *Sony* plans to launch two new e-readers tomorrow—one with a touch screen, priced at just $299—to better compete in an e-book market that has grown increasingly crowded with rivals like Plastic Logic, Samsung, and of course, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). The Sony (NYSE: SNE) readers will hit stores later this...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Sony opens new chapter in e-book fight
- Sony has unveiled its bid to reclaim ground lost to Amazon.com in the battle for control of the emerging electronic book market with a wireless, touch-screen reader priced at $399.The Japanese electronics group's new Reader Daily Edition, which will hit the US market in December, costs $100 more than...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Microsoft Paring Zune Line Down To Touchscreen HD
- Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is betting the pot on the soon-to-launch Zune HD—at least when it comes its own devices. by Staci D. Kramer
- External links 2009-09-02
- Say Hello to the BlackBerry Storm
- It's official: RIM just took the wraps off a decidedly iPhone-like BlackBerry, one it hopes will take the world by...wait for it...Storm. As someone who considers a touchscreen mandatory equipment in a phone, I've never been a big BlackBerry fan (though I do enjoy blackberries...yum). The Storm...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- How to Lock the BlackBerry Storm's Touchscreen
- RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry certainly has faced a Storm of criticism, hasn't it? One complaint is with the touchscreen, which remains active during a call (unlike the iPhone's, which goes dark when held against your head). Fortunately, there's TalkLock, a free utility that locks the Storm's touchscreen...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Touch Screen Market to Hit $9B by 2015
- It is probably obvious to say that the touch screen market is growing, given Apple's success, Microsoft's Windows support for the devices, and various device and PC manufacturers like HP either having rolled out products or planning them. But market analyst firm DisplaySearch has a forecast suggesting a market size...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
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- 10 Things Apple, Google, and RIM Won't Tell You About Mobile Phones
- 10 Things Apple, Google, and RIM Won't Tell You About Mobile Phones( Page 1 of 2 )News Analysis: Apple, Google, RIM, and all the other major vendors might be enjoying the fruits of the touch-screen business, but there are some issues with those products that they don't like talking about....
- News items 2009-11-05
- How to fix the keyboard crisis
- Everything gets better, right? Cheaper. Faster. Smaller. This is especially true for the smallest devices -- cell phones, netbooks and e-book readers. In the past 10 years, for example, cell phone processors, screens and antennas have undergone radical transformations for the better. Today's phone processors are vastly superior to desktop...
- News items 2009-12-06
- With BlackBerry Storm2, RIM wins the battle but loses the smartphone war [review]
- On Monday, Research in Motion quietly announced the successor to the world's first touchscreen BlackBerry handset: the BlackBerry Storm2. With consideration to the tall expectations that faced its innovative but maligned predecessor at launch, the bungled announcement was a strange move. The mishap can probably be chalked up to miscommunication...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Motorola's Droid review: It's the best phone on Verizon
- We're getting this out of the way now: Motorola's Droid is the best Google phone on the market. Maybe that's not saying a whole lot. The Droid's only competitors in the U.S. are T-Mobile's 1-year-old G1, its chubby younger brother the MyTouch 3G and HTC's Droid Eris, a $99 Verizon Wireless...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Palm Launches Radical 'Pre' Smartphone With Sprint
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- News items 2009-08-07
- Universal Banks on Interactive Television.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- NEW YORK -- Universal Electronics Inc. hopes to expand its role as a licenser and supplier of remote-control technology to the cable industry to include wireless keyboards and two-way touch-screen remotes that can control everything from interactiv NEW YORK -- Universal Electronics Inc. hopes...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- Review: Motorola's Droid a serious smartphone
- SAN FRANCISCO - Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of applications. Other smartphone makers have been trying since then to dispel the notion that the iPhone is the be-all and end-all of mobile...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Eris Could Be the Droids You're Looking For
- NEWS ANALYSIS: The Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris present a lot for the typical smartphone user to like, including crisp call quality and excellent battery life. A few kinks aside, the Google Android operating system seems versatile and able to handle most minute-to-minute needs in the productivity, communication...
- News items 2009-11-20
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