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Samsung may sell hard drive business in wake of iPad
Apr 18th
A source claimed Sunday night that Samsung was looking to sell off its hard drive business. The Korean company had set a target price of $ 1.5 billion but was eager enough to sell it for under $ 1 billion if it couldn’t fetch the intended target. Seagate was the only named candidate from the Wall Street Journal‘s tip, but it wasn’t clear how likely the US company was to land the deal.
Samsung had warned earlier this month that it would see profits shrink rapidly in its winter quarter results. Its hard drive segment was one of those at More >
Sharp exits PC business to focus on Android-based tablets
Oct 22nd
Sharp Japan has announced that it will cease to develop and manufacture notebook and desktop PCs. Although innovative designs such as the Mebius notebook and netbooks, which featured a touchscreen input in place of a traditional trackpad were reasonably well received by consumers, Sharp will instead focus on eBooks and tablets. It is calling the move ‘strategic’ and has not ruled out returning to the PC market in the future.
Sharp first detailed its plans for its upcoming series of Android-based tablets in September. Its forthcoming Galapagas tablet and eBook range is due to begin shipping in December and will More >
Android makes deep inroads into business, hurts BlackBerry
Sep 22nd
Android’s footprint in the workplace has gone up 60 percent in just a few months, ChangeWave found in a study today. Only 10 percent of US companies used Android in May, but the number shot up to 16 percent in August. The iPhone was the only other platform to grow but moved up just slightly to 31 percent.
Among Android phone designers, HTC and Motorola were virtually even for demand at 15 and 16 percent each. Launches of recent flagships like Motorola’s Droid 2 and Droid X, along with HTC’s Droid Incredible, helped Android get significant footing. Some of the More >
3M intros pair of pico projectors for business users
Sep 15th
3M on Wednesday introduced two new pocket projectors with the MP160 and MP180. Either sports 30 lumens of brightness and can produce 800×600 pictures. The portable devices are also said to provide a record-setting two hours of operation from a single battery charge despite their miniscule sizes.
The entry-level MP160 ships with VGA and composite video cables for its connections. The MP180 has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, while sporting a 4GB capacity, a microSD card slot and USB port. The user interface using a touchscreen and it can playback MP3 audio files. Both have stereo speakers and an audio output.
The MP160 More >
Joojoo lawsuit shocker! Court rules Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were business partners, tosses most everything else
Aug 30th
It’s been a few blissful months since we’ve thought about or had to interact with the Joojoo, but the court case Michael Arrington and TechCrunch filed against Fusion Garage just reached a significant milestone: the judge threw out several of Arrington’s claims while importantly holding that TechCrunch and Fusion Garage were in fact business partners with legal obligations to each other. Here’s the basic timeline so far: since there was (unbelievably) never a contract between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage to develop the CrunchPad / Joojoo, TechCrunch had to rely on a variety of alternative arguments in its initial complaint, which More >