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Monthly Archives: May 2009

05.13.09 / spotlight story media

05.12.09 / Apple to Build Its Own Chips?

Based on recent hires and strategic acquisitions, Apple is quietly building a capability to design and build its own chips, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The move indicate that perhaps Apple is investigating the idea of building its own chips … Read more »

05.12.09 / The Newest Item in a Soldier’s Gear Bag? The iPod

Forget the Leatherman, or the entrenching tool:  the new all-in-one device gaining a strong foothold in the kit bag of the American soldier is Apple’s iPod Touch, and to a lesser degree, the iPhone. The future of ‘networked warfare,’ according … Read more »

05.11.09 / How Much of the World’s Knowledge Can Be Made Computable?

That’s what mathematician, author, and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram aims to find out with a new web-based search engine called Wolfram Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com), due for beta release later this month.  Based on the belief that anything that can be expressed as … Read more »

05.11.09 / Bring Your Wireless Cloud with You

Beginning May 17, you will be able to bring your wireless network with you wherever you go (within the U.S) with the MiFi, as reported in the New York Times.  This is a device Verizon and Novatel created that can … Read more »

05.8.09 / How to Put Our Country Further into Debt…

Virtual currency. One of the latest crazes are virtual worlds, like Second Life, where users can create a character representing themselves (or someone completely different) and live a virtual life on the Internet.  Users of these virtual worlds can do … Read more »

05.8.09 / A $500 Kindle?

Is more than doubling the screen real estate of a garden-variety Kindle worth less than doubling its asking price at $489?  That’s what the online marketing geniuses at Amazon are hoping, as they introduce the new Kindle DX, a new … Read more »

05.7.09 / Could Apple Be Interested in the Twits?

Citing an unnamed source who’s “plugged into the Valley’s deal scene and has been recruited by Apple for a senior position,” Owen Thomas of Valleywag is speculating that Apple is close to sealing a deal for Twitter, possibly in the … Read more »

05.7.09 / Kindle Curdles Newspaper, Magazine Publishers’ Blood

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is curdling the blood of some newspaper and magazine publishers who feel the device offers a poor substitute for the look and feel of turning pages, lacks the ability to handle on-page advertising, and has a … Read more »

05.6.09 / Amazon Kindle Breaks into the Academic Market

Amazon is said to be releasing the new Kindle on Wednesday which was made to be more appealing to text book publishers and universities, reported the Wall Street Journal.  The primary upgrades to the  new electronic book reader are that … Read more »