Materials costs for Kindle 2 are about half its retail price
April 22, 2009Amazon's second iteration of its popular Kindle e-book reader costs $185.49 to build, $173.51 less than its retail price, according to an iSuppli teardown report.
Apple to concede Mac sales shrinkage, analyst predicts
April 22, 2009Apple will report on Wednesday that it sold fewer Macs in the first quarter of 2009 than it did in the same period a year earlier, marking the first time in nearly six years that the company will have acknowledged a sales slide, a Wall Street analyst said.
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
April 21, 2009IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.
3Com high-end switch: Alternative to Cisco
April 20, 20093Com says it has an alternative for network managers considering high-end switches from Cisco and others.
Sharing USB devices easily
April 18, 2009The scoop: Four-port USB Net ShareStation (model GUIP204), by Iogear, about $85.
Google's CEO predicts strong year for Android
April 18, 2009Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone OS and software.
Mobile's future is in links, ex-Nokia CTO says
April 17, 2009Former Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci sees the future handset interface as graphical, cloud-based and available on all handsets and carriers.
LaCie intros the Rugged XL 1TB hard disk
April 15, 2009Hard drive-maker LaCie introduced a new version of its Rugged line of hard drives. The Rugged XL doubles the capacity of the original model to 1TB.
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AT&T may have to pay dearly to retain iPhone exclusively
April 15, 2009AT&T may need to greatly sweeten the terms of its agreement with Apple if it wants to continue to be the sole wireless carrier in the U.S. for the iPhone.
The Android 1.5 challenge: Beat iPhone 3.0 and Palm Pre
April 15, 2009When the Android 1.5 platform ships on new hardware later this year, the question will be how well the open-source Android and its primary backer, Google, can compete against the soon-to-arrive Apple iPhone 3.0 and Palm Pre.