RIM unveils Blackberry PlayBook as rival to iPad September 27, 2010 RESEARCH in Motion (RIM) unveiled its own tablet computer to rival Apple’s iPad yesterday. The computer, named BlackBerry PlayBook, has a seven-inch screen and dual facing cameras. It is WiFi and Bluetooth enabled but needs to link with a BlackBerry smartphone to access the mobile phone network. Shares of RIM jumped nearly two per cent [...]
EU ends Apple probe September 27, 2010 European Union competition regulators said yesterday they will drop an investigation into US computer giant Apple after the company eased restrictions on programming tools and cross-border warranties for the iPhone. The move comes after Apple changed its policies to make it easier for iPhone users to get repairs under warranty in an EU country other [...]
Zuckerberg: No Facebook phone September 23, 2010 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg quashed rumours his firm is ready to release a phone to compete with Google and Apple. The 26-year-old said he is only interested in “deeply integrating” Facebook services into existing phones and said he would have fired the source of the leak. But he refused to completely rule out a Facebook [...]
Dell shows off new tablet PC September 23, 2010 BlackBerry maker RIM is understood to be ready to unveil an “iPad killer” tablet computer at its annual DevCon conference next week. The firm has been rumoured to have been working on a tablet device since the roaring success of Apple’s iPad. But few expected it could have the “BlackPad” ready in time for the [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 21, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES MOVES TO WEAKEN YEN NOT OVER, SAYS KAN Japan stands ready to intervene again in foreign exchange markets, but also plans to put in place broader economic and monetary policies that will help to weaken the yen, according to Naoto Kan, the prime minister. Mr Kan stressed that Tokyo’s yen-selling intervention last week [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 20, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES BLACKSTONE QUITS LIVERPOOL TALKS The credit unit of Blackstone, which had been mooted as a possible leader of a £280m ($436m) refinancing of Liverpool Football Club, has pulled out of talks with its owners in a potential setback in their attempt to keep control of the company. People close to the situation said [...]
The idiot box gets smart – and threatens old media September 15, 2010 MODERN technophiles are already used to multi-tasking online. And with online mainstays now venturing into the coveted space of TV entertainment, attention spans are set to encounter another challenge. Google TV is due to launch in the US by the end of the year to rival Boxee – a service built originally from open source [...]
GADGETS | REVIEWS September 15, 2010 AMAZON KINDLE £149 with 3G www.amazon.co.uk ACONFIRMED fan of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, I was lucky enough to be given the latest model to play with in advance. If you’ve seen the ads on the Tube and wondered whether to join the e-book revolution, the new Kindle is unlikely to disappoint. This is the second [...]
Another month, another e-reader September 15, 2010 MARC SIDWELL YES I HAVE seen the future of books, and it isn’t lumps of dead tree. Whether the iPod of books turns out to be Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook or Sony’s Reader – or even Apple’s iPad – these readers will catch on. The e-ink screens favoured by everyone but Apple still [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 14, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES TESCO ADVANCES IN CARREFOUR ASIAN AUCTION Tesco is among the bidders through to the second round of the auction for Carrefour’s south-east Asian assets, which are for sale for up to $1bn (£642m). Tesco, the world’s third-biggest supermarket chain by sales after Walmart and Carrefour, was one of more than 10 first-round bidders [...]