03/09/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. last month said it would provide ultrahigh-speed Internet connections for up to 500,000 people in the U.S. Now the search giant must deal with the challenging part: building the network and making sure there are services available to take advantage of it.
Since its ultrahigh-speed announcement last [...]
03/09/2010
Thomson Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc said the first iPads will be in U.S. stores on April 3 and hit nine international markets later in the month, easing concerns that manufacturing constraints could delay launch.
The news sent shares of Apple surging as much as 4.3 percent to an all-time high of $219.70 on [...]
03/09/2010
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Cisco Systems will be making a major announcement Tuesday that the technology company says “will forever change the Internet.” But could this new announcement include an AppleTV-like set-top box that does everything?
Exactly what Cisco will be announcing is still under wraps, but some folks are speculating that the announcement will [...]
03/04/2010
PC Magazine – San Francisco Bureau
Wednesday night, Google added gesture search for Android phones, which allows a user to “write” a gesture (such as a letter) instead of type in a character.
It’s an alternative form of input, and one that may be of use to some. Google Gesture Search should be available in the [...]
03/02/2010
Unstrung
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) has started laying out the details of its upcoming 3G femtocell chipset, which supports both CDMA and GSM standards, on its QCT Connect Website.
The CDMA pioneer is listing a number of technical features for the upcoming chipsets:
A combined radio chip and 3G baseband controller
Support for 3G CDMA standards [...]
03/02/2010
Reuters
Might Apple fans have to wait another full month to get his or her hands on the company’s latest and greatest device, the iPad? It’s possible, according to Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek.
He said the iPad launch, currently expected in late March, may be “somewhat limited” by an unspecified “manufacturing bottleneck” at the device’s [...]
03/02/2010
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
March 1 (Bloomberg) — Qualcomm Inc., the largest maker of mobile-phone chips, plans to buy back as much as $3 billion of its shares and will boost its dividend by 12 percent.
The program replaces a $2 billion buyback plan, which was recently completed with a $1.7 billion repurchase, San [...]
02/26/2010
Wired News
Dell’s tablet computer, due out in a few months, will be the first of several, company says.
Hype over the iPad doesn’t mean other players aren’t in the tablet game
Dell’s tablet, tentatively called the Mini 5, due out “in a couple of months.”
Company says tablet will be the first of several, which could have screen [...]
02/26/2010
BusinessWeek – Online
Apple is showing its true mobile colors. The company is on the lookout for an engineer who can help get its mobile-phone software onto additional devices.
On Feb. 15, Apple (AAPL) posted an ad on its Web site for an engineering manager “to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS [operating [...]
02/26/2010
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — You would think an x86 core would be a pretty hot item for a system-on-chip design. So why is no one biting on Intel Corp.’s offer last March to sell rights to an Atom core for SoCs made at TSMC?
Here’s some armchair speculation. Most of it comes down to one [...]
