Barnes and Noble is expected to launch its new Nook Color 2 e-reader by the end of the month, pitting the company directly against its book-selling rival Amazon and its reported new Kindle and tablet devices, Digitimes reports. According to sources, Taiwanese suppliers will ship components used in the new Nook Color with TPK Holding supplying...
Daily Archives: September 2, 2011
Patent Troll WiLAN Targets Apple, HP, HTC, Dell And Others In Yet Another Suit
Self-proclaimed “technology innovation and licensing company” WiLAN, billed as a notorious patent troll by most anyone else (and often, much worse), this morning announced that it has initiated litigation against Apple, Dell, HP, HTC, Kyocera, Alcatel-Lucent, Novatel and Sierra Wireless America. In its filing, WiLAN claims that these companies are infringing two U.S. patents,...
Planet Hunters crowdsources data from citizen scientists to discover new planets
Always wanted to be an astronomer but wound up as an accountant instead? Scientists at Yale University have launched Planet Hunters, an online experiment that taps into the power of human pattern recognition. You become a partner with their science team helping them to analyze massive sets of data by studying different families of light...
AT&T’s Secret Plan To Finish The T-Mobile Merger (T)
Image: Bill Bradford Now that the Feds want to block the ATT/T-Mobile deal, before going to court ATT has a plan to offer a settlement, Reuters has learned. Basically, the settlement would include a promise to keep T-Mobile’s cheap data plans and a bunch of asset sales. If anything can get the DoJ to...
French Startups Are Still On A Roll
Image: © 2011 @francois_tancre The French startup ecosystem is probably the most underrated out there, as we’ve been arguing. New data shows this: a compilation of the venture fundraisings of this year shows 75 venture financings for the year versus around forty at the same point last year. 75 venture deals in eight months...
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington resigns to run $20 million VC fund
We’ve seen this story unfolding for quite a few weeks, and some could even argue that the ball started rolling in September of 2010 when Aol acquired TechCrunch. Long-time technology blogger Michael Arrington is resigning as the Editor of TechCrunch in order to pursue a full-time career as in venture capital. The reported $20...