- Amazon launches $489 widescreen Kindle - Amazon officially announced their widescreen Kindle product this morning. It's just over 1/3 of an inch thick; holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents; has a 9.7" diagonal e-ink display; PDF support; switches from landscape to portrait mode. And oh, BTW, it costs $500.
Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle DX, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, no annual contracts, and no hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots
- Apple may add micro projectors to iPhones, iPod - Foxlink, a subsidiary of Apple's iPhone manufacturing partner Foxconn, is developing its own micro projector technology that should begin making its way into integrated devices as early as this year.
- Apple tablet and record labels? - Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a new interactive booklet.
- Apple tablet in 2010? - Apple is reportedly working on a "media pad" tablet, but
don't get your hopes up for one of those devices this year, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster writes in a note today.
- Apple thinks Netbooks are lousy - From Tim Cook, COO of Apple: “Never want to discount anything in the future ... but boy do we think netbooks are lousy, and we think customers agree."
- Apple to design their own chips? - (From the WSJ) Apple is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.
- Ballmer pleads for openness - "At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer took aim at Apple's closed iPhone ecosystem with an ironic plea for openness: 'Openness is central because it's the foundation of choice.' Bahahaha ...
- benchwell.com - Benchwell.com is a place for users of Next Limit Technologies Maxwell Render to compare hardware performance.
- Black hole confirmed in Milky Way - In the next sign that the world really will end with the Mayan calendar in 2012 :), a new study has confirmed the existence of a giant black hole at the center of our galaxy.
- Capistrano - automate remote tasks via ssh - Capistrano is a tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines. It is ideal for anyone doing any kind of system administration.
- Cerberus - We're not in this for the money - '“We’re not in this for the money,” Mr. Neporent said earlier this week.' From a NY Times article where Cerberus and Chrysler have paid more on lobbying Washington than Ford has.
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