February 5 2010
Categorized Under: Tablets
Tags; apple, EU, europe, ipad, slate, STMicroElectronics, tablet, Trademark
You know, ever since Apple released its first ‘i’ product, the path for a lot of brand names starting with ‘i’ was paved in stone. But that didn’t turn out so good for Apple because a lot of other companies felt like it was a great way to name their products and hence they started using the ‘i’ prefix.
Many ‘i’ jokes later, we had the iPhone which faced trademark heat in multiple areas in the world. But since Apple cannot give up its penchant for naming devices generically with the ‘i’ prefix attached, it has run into trademark trouble once again with the iPad. After Fujitsu, it is turn for a French-Italian company called STMicroElectronics. Looks like they spent a lot of sleepless nights coming up with that name.
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December 10 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones
Tags; 6700 classic, acer, android, cheapest navigation phone, droid, education, europe, experiment, free iphone, gold edition, liquid a1, London, magnetproof, nokia, PeekFon, samsung, Satio, school, SDHC card, Sony Ericsson, uk, update, weatherproof
This week has been extremely exciting for smartphone lovers simply because the HTC roadmap leak happened. It confirmed that the company is making a super powerful Android Snapdragon phone. Also, the Satio makes a come back after Sony Ericsson releasing a fix for the issues. Get to the other side for more.
October 7 2009
Categorized Under: netbooks
Tags; 1810t, 1820p, 680, acer, alpha, android, ARM, aspire, atom, best buy, booklet 3g, ceatec, chrome os, concept, dell, dual-screen, europe, firefox, google, hasee, inspiron, intel, ion, japan, kohjinsha, leak, macbook air, mini, mozilla, n10a, netbook, netwalker, nickelodeon, nokia, nvidia, price, protoype, sharp, tablet, thunderbird, timeline, twitter, ubuntu, ultrabooks, UMPC, weibu, windows 7
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With CEATEC underway and more Asian companies bringing out netbooks, the action in the netbook segment has gone east for the moment. Sure things are trickling down to the West after the Asian markets have had their fill but if you want to see netbooks that will never see the other side of the GMT, you have to head east.
Having exhausted all possible combinations of Intel Atom and the usual features found in netbooks, the companies are now keen on experimenting with things like in-built 3G, GPS, etc. Take the Nokia Booklet 3G as an example or look at what Kohjinsha is doing. Jump over to the other side for the entire round up.