Lenovo: Apple is losing out in China
Apple is missing a huge opportunity in the Chinese market, according to Liu Chuanzhi, the head of Lenovo, the country's leading PC maker. — Speaking of Apple's chief executive, Lenovo's founder and ...
iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds
Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming
Google Apps users who want access to all the same products that regular Google Accounts have won't have to wait much longer. An anonymous tipster tells me a Google Trusted Tester program is underway ...
Presentation for ‘Minority Report Interface’ That Blew People's Minds at TED (video)
Underkoffler's vision of a new user interface is coming true. — The movie Minority Report features one of the most discussed and influential user interfaces ever shown on the silver screen.
Computer automatically deciphers ancient language
A new system that took a couple hours to decipher much of the ancient language Ugaritic could help improve online translation software. — Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office — In his 2002 book Lost La...
Why Carriers Still Hold the Key to Handset Sales
Microsoft last week was forced to pull the plug on the Kin, a two-phone lineup that debuted on Verizon Wireless just a few weeks ago. As I discuss in my weekly column over at GigaOM Pro, the move is ...
ATI 5000 Series and GeForce GTX 480 Drivers Hint at Desktop Mac Updates
A couple of discoveries have revealed early Mac support for the high end ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, raising hopes that Apple will soon be updating their desktop computers. Both the Mac Pro and iM...