Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: How is Amazon building its amazing Kindle Fire tablet? It will probably sell out quickly and Amazon is probably taking a loss on it and so should get its margins hammered. Amazon is talking to HP about buying Palm. The food fight between Oracle, HP, Autonomy...
Full HD resolution (1,920×1,080 pixels) isn’t enough for Sharp. The company has developed a TV that’s capable of producing images with 3,840×2,160 resolution and is ready to show the device to the public during the CEATEC 2011 exhibition that takes place next week near Tokyo. The 60-inch 4K TV has been developed in...
MobileMinder is a new service that has just launched, designed to help parents keep an eye on their children via a Web app that works in conjunction with a child’s phone to keep a watch on what they’re up to in a number of innovative ways. Beyond simply showing the child on a map,...
Henry Blodget A few months ago, Apple (AAPL) completed the humiliation of its long-time foe, Microsoft (MSFT)—surging past Microsoft’s market-capitalization and becoming the most valuable tech company in the world. For those who watched Apple get left for dead in the late 1990s, when Microsoft ruled the world, this was an astonishing and historical...
Nokia’s deal to outsource Symbian development to Accenture was formally closed on Friday, after the two companies reached an agreement to handover software development and support to the outsourcing company. The terms of the agreement state that Accenture will support Symbian development and support at least until 2016, providing a lifeline for the stricken...
Apple’s legal fight with Samsung could be brought to an end in Australia after lawyers for the Korean electronics giant offered Apple a deal on a patent dispute that could see the Galaxy Tab 10.1 device go on sales in the country in less than a week. The WSJ reports that the two companies...
Disney, which has been doing business as an MVNO in Japan (Disney Mobile) since 2008, took the wraps off two new Android phones yesterday. The DM010SH will be rolled out in Japan in October, followed by the DM011SH in December (prices tbd). Technically, the DM010SH is based on the Sharp’s AQUOS 009SH ...
Apple’s MobileMe service has been down for the past few hours, with the system status page indicating that email, web apps and Find My iPhone are affected by the outage. Email is not working right now for 25% of users, with the number having been as high as 75% earlier today, according to a...