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Posted in E-Week on September 2nd, 2010 by E-Week
Sony is rolling out revamped versions of its three e-readers, and selling its Pocket Edition at a higher price, in a bid to compete against the cheaper Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. - Amazon.com and Barnes amp; Nobles strategies for
conquering the e-reader market? Cut the prices of their respective Kindle and
Nook devices.
Sonys strategy for boosting its sales numbers in that same
market? Raise the price of its refreshed Reader Pocket Edition, and justify it
with additiona...
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Posted in E-Week on September 2nd, 2010 by E-Week
Apple's Sept. 1 event saw the debut of new iPods, a revamped Apple TV, and a music-centric social service, pushing the company towards greater conflict with Microsoft, Facebook and Google. - Apples Sept. 1 event in San Francisco saw the debut of new
iPods, a revamped Apple TV, and several new services, including
a social network devoted to music. Those items are virtually guaranteed to give
Apple buzz heading into the holiday shopping season, but they could also bring
the company i...
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Posted in E-Week on September 2nd, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform reached its release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone on Sept. 1. Microsoft hopes to take mobile market-share from Google and Apple. - Microsofts Windows Phone 7 reached its release-to-manufacturing milestone Sept. 1. From here, the smartphone operating system will be released to Microsofts partners, who will integrate the software with their devices.
Microsoft plans to release Windows Phone 7 devices in time for the 2010 holiday...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
News Analysis: Sprint directors are mulling an offer by Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA to invest in the Clearwire network owned by Sprint. - A growing coziness between T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel
has been rumored for months. At one point there were rumors that T-Mobile's
parent company, European communications goliath Deutsche Telekom, was preparing
to buy Sprint and make it part of T-Mobile. So far, nothing had come of it until
n...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Amazon is getting ready to offer a video streaming service and when it does a major market battle may develop between it and Google. - Amazon is making plans to add a subscription-based video streaming service to its list of offerings and is trying to drum up support for it among media companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The publication said that the service would compete quite well with Netflixs Instant Streaming opti...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
The disruption of the Pushdo botnet has not stopped spammers, despite nearly two-thirds of the botnet's command and control servers being taken out of commission. - From the shutdown of McColo to last week's disruption of the Pushdo botnet,
spammers have continually found ways to stay in business.
Nearly 20 of the 30 command and control (CnC) servers associated with Pushdo
were taken offline last week due to efforts by security vendor LastLine.
The servers...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
T-Mobile says it will ramp up HSPA+ speeds to 42M bps in 2011 and reach 200 million people in 2010. - T-Mobile
plans to increase theoretical peak speeds of its HSPA+ (High-Speed Packet
Access) to 42M bps in 2011, according to an Aug. 31 statement from Neville Ray,
the company's chief network officer. Currently, the carrier offers
quot;theoretical quot; peak speeds of 21M bps.
HSPA+
will all...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Security researchers at Zscaler say many organizations are leaving themselves open to corporate espionage via the WebScan feature included in HP's all-in-one printers. - Research from Zscaler has exposed how a feature in Hewlett-Packard's all-in-one
printers can be abused remotely to steal scanned documents.
The feature, WebScan, allows users to remotely scan a document and
have an image of the document sent from the scanner to their Web browser.
Unfortunate...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup combines Syncsort backup management software, NetApp snapshot, clone and replication, and NetApp disk storage in a turnkey package. - SAN FRANCISCO Storage
maker NetApp and data
integration/protection software provider Syncsort
announced Sept. 1 at VMworld 2010 here that they have combined to market a new
data protection package for mixed-bag data centers which means just about all
data centers.
Called NetApp Syncsort Inte...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Google Chrome has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to create "The Wilderness Downtown," a wistful, HTML5-intensive trip down memory lane to the band's song "We Used to Wait." - In one of the more bizarre mash-ups involving Web-based maps, browsers and
indie rock music, Google has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to
create a sort of do-it-yourself movie that takes a wistful look at childhood.
Where REM's quot;Stand quot; provided an
upbeat soundtrack for...
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