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[2009-10-31] Creative is latest to tackle e-book readers

October 31st, 2009

“The device reportedly has a touch screen, text-to-speech function, and an SD memory card slot. It will run on Creative’s Zii System-On-Chip technology and will be Internet-enabled.”

[2009-10-31] Chrysler Offers Mobile TV In New Cars

October 31st, 2009

“The company said Thursday that customers can buy the service, Qualcomm’s Flo TV, as an option on most of its vehicles starting in December. It includes up to 20 channels; including Fox News, MSNBC and Comedy Central.”

[2009-10-31] AIR 2.0 Coming Soon: Multitouch, Audio Recording, Less Memory

October 31st, 2009

“Version 2.0 of AIR will hit Adobe Labs later this year and be available for everyone in the first half of 2010, the company said this week.”

[2009-10-31] First USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 Expansion Card, Will Sell For $30

October 31st, 2009

“The U3S6 card gives you two USB 3.0 ports and two SATA 6.0 ports in a PCI-E card. The card has three primary components: an NEC D720200F1 USB 3.0 controller, a Marvell 88SE9123 SATA 6.0 controller, and a PLX PEX8613.”

[2009-10-31] XPPhone Runs Smartphone Interface on Windows XP

October 30th, 2009

“The main phone screen (pictured below) has call-centric icons, plus shortcuts to regular Windows apps that can be categorized into icon-based tabs on the left.”

[2009-10-30] Tiremaker Bridgestone develops flexible e-book reader

October 30th, 2009

” it’s almost half as thin as a Kindle 2. It’s said that it can be “bent to some extent since the circuit board and the electronic paper are flexible,”"

[2009-10-30] 291.1 Million Mobile Handsets Shipped in 3Q-2009; Vendors Quietly Confident About 4Q-2009

October 30th, 2009

“ABI Research estimates Android could capture 10% of the smartphone market by 2014. Smartphones are not the only handset segment to drive the market. GPS is also becoming a very desirable feature of handsets. By the end of 2009, ABI Research estimates, 21% of all handsets shipped this year will have onboard GPS.”

[2009-10-30] Consumer Sales of WWAN Modems to Outpace Business Sales for the First Time

October 30th, 2009

“A substantial majority of cellular modems purchased as add-ons to portable and mobile computing devices have traditionally been bought by businesses to equip their mobile workforces. But according to a new study from ABI Research, in 2010 51% of these modems – mostly the USB form factor – will ship into the consumer segment. By 2014 that percentage is expected to rise to 63%.”

[2009-10-30] Ford unveils open-source Sync developer platform

October 29th, 2009

“When Ford and Microsoft opened up their joint Sync platform for its own applications and updates, we wondered when the day would come that third-party developers would be given a crack at the in-vehicle infomatics interface. Well, that day may be on the horizon. Ford announced that it is testing an open-source platform to could be used in the future to develop applications that make use of Sync to connect to social networks in the cloud.”

[2009-10-30] Whirlpool wants to pull plug on ‘dumb’ appliances

October 29th, 2009

“Whirlpool has pledged that by 2015, it will discontinue making appliances sans the ability to communicate with smart grids. It will no longer make “dumb” appliances at all.”