Monthly Archives: January 2011
RIM Positioning PlayBook As Primarily WiFi Tablet, With Security
Research In Motion is positioning its upcoming PlayBook tablet as mostly a WiFi device, walking a delicate line between touting the device's BlackBerry tethering...
IBM’s Watson Odds-On Favorite for Jeopardy Win
An upcoming episode of the popular quiz show "Jeopardy," pitting an IBM computer called Watson against two past contestants, is causing many people to...
NASA Releases Look at Flight in 2025
In late 2010, NASA awarded contracts to three teams-Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing-to study advanced concept designs for aircraft that could take to...
Google as Phone Carrier Theory Mostly Well-Received
eWEEK started the new year by skewering the popular, but quite speculative notion that Google could become a phone carrier, offering these five reasons...
RIM PlayBook, Motorola Xoom May Ship 2M Units
Demand and expectations are indeed high for tablet computers that aren't branded iPad, according to reports from component makers out of Taiwan.Digitimes reported that...
HP WebOS Netbook Planned, Along with Tablet and Smartphone: Report
Hewlett-Packard is expected to soon introduce a tablet running WebOS, as well as a smartphone. But a netbook? According to Jan. 17 report from...
Verizon iPhone 4, Says Consumer Reports, Is ‘Transitional,’ ‘Middle-Aged’
The Verizon Wireless iPhone is nice enough, but if we were you, we'd hold off.In short, that's the opinion being offered by trusted consumer...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs to Take Open-Ended Medical Leave
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Jan. 17 in an e-mail to Apple employees that he'll be taking another medical leave of absence to focus...
Facebook Developers Get Access to Mobile Phone, Address Information
Facebook's decision to offer applications access to users' phone numbers and addresses has put the company in the crosshairs of yet another privacy debate."We...
Apple App Store Fight, Muglia Departure Marked Microsoft Week
Microsoft's week saw one major executive departure and several small battles with rivals in the cloud and smartphone space, both of which could be...