Contrary to Steve Jobs' dictum that the 9.7-inch iPad is as small as a tablet
can get, Apple is testing a widget that's around eight inches and has gotten
as far as qualifying suppliers for it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It's supposed to be working with screen makers AU Optronics of Taiwan and LG
Display of South Korea.
The device would reportedly have the same resolution as the current iPad.
Apple is expected to unveil an iPad 3 next month with heightened resolution
that can also run on Verizon and AT&T's faster 4G LTE networks.
A smaller iPad suggests that Apple may try to broaden its worldwide market
share, which stood at 60% in Q3, particularly in developing markets like
China and India, and take on competition from the Android mob, which is
selling smaller tablets like the seven-inch Amazon Kindle Fire, the 5.3-inch
Samsung Galaxy Note and the seven- ... (more)
HP Monday claimed to have the most self-sufficient line of servers, the
x86-based HP ProLiant Generation 8, the first fruits of a two-year Project
Voyager meant to eliminate error-prone, downtime-creating manual tasks and
cut data center costs.
HP says it's spent $300 million on Gen8, managing to automate 50% of a data
center's manual operations such as server administration, application
deployment, and power and cooling management. On average that means it can
save a 10,000-square-foot data center an estimated $20 million a year.
It says the Gen8 servers, previewed late last yea... (more)
Apple wants the Ice Cream-bearing Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone that Samsung
worked on with Google banned from the United States because it allegedly
infringes four strong Apple technical patents - none of this squishy design
stuff like before.
Apple quietly asked a district court in California for the preliminary
injunction last Thursday as part of a new lawsuit.
Patent watcher Florian Mueller calls the patents the "Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse."
In Florian's metaphor, they might to unleash pestilence, war, famine and
death on Android 4.0 as it comes from Google - no Samsung f... (more)
Playing Tweedledum to the European Commission's Tweedledee, the Justice
Department Monday followed its European counterpart in waving Google's $12.5
billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and its patent trove through.
It also approved the $4.5 billion acquisition of Nortel's patent portfolio by
the Rockstar Bidco consortium including Apple, Microsoft and RIM.
The DOJ said Google, Apple and Microsoft had made commitments concerning
their standards-essential patent (SEP) licensing policies, meaning the Apple
letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that ... (more)
The European Commission late Monday cleared Google's proposed $12.5 billion
acquisition of Motorola Mobility but it also issued a simultaneous warning
that the companies could be charged with antitrust violations for abusing the
fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms of MMI's
standard-essential 3G patents.
Google is buying MMI for its huge patent portfolio.
Antitrust czar Joaquín Almunia issued an unusual statement separate from the
merger go-ahead saying, "Today's decision does not mean that the merger
clearance blesses all actions by Motorola in the past or all f... (more)