Archive for November, 2009
Dual Display Netbook!
Nov 29th
Kohjinsha DZ dual-display netbook shipping December
Kohjinsha’s dual-display netbook was one of the stars of CEATEC back in October, but the company was quiet on whether the prototype would reach shipping stage. Strong feedback has obviously tipped their hand, however: you can now preorder the netbook, freshly named the Kohjinsha DZ, with a Japanese delivery expected on December 11th. Your 79,800 yen ($921) netbook has two 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LCD displays which sandwich together into the lid for ease of transportation, as well as rotating all the way around to face backwards.
There’s also AMD’s 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40 processor with the company’s S780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics. Standard RAM is 1GB (4GB supported) and there’s a 160GB hard-drive, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, gigabit ethernet and a fingerprint reader built into the screen bezel. Japanese buyers will also get a 1-Seg TV tuner.
Ports include three USB 2.0 and audio in/out, and the standard battery is a 6-cell 5,200mAh pack which Kohjinsha claim is good for up to 4.5hrs use. It’s unclear whether that’s with both panels active, however; you can use the DZ with just one screen visible and turned on. As for weight, it comes in at 1.84kg which is unsurprisingly slightly heavier than we’re used to from a netbook.
Motorola buys BitBand
Nov 29th
Motorola buys CDN specialist BitBand
Motorola is buying BitBand, a VOD company that claims more than 60 commercial IPTV deployments worldwide.
Motorola did not say how much it is paying for the privately held company. Multiple news sources peg the price at $10 million to $15 million. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the half-dozen venture companies backing the company had sunk $18 million into it.
BitBand concentrates on content delivery networks (CDNs) and ensuring quality of experience (QoE) for both on-demand services and broadcast over IP networks . The company says its solutions are optimized for hybrid and distributed network architectures.
The acquisition is in keeping with previous Motorola acquisitions in the on-demand space such as Netopia in 2008 and Broadbus in 2006.
Motorola said BitBand will complement its on-demand product line, which includes the Adaptive Media Management framework for content management and high-performance streaming servers for centralized and edge-based on-demand networks. With the addition of BitBand’s products, Motorola said it can offer comprehensive on-demand solutions for customers worldwide, addressing a wide range of deployment scales, access networks, video formats and business models.
BitBand has focused largely on the international telco market. Among its customers are Tele2 (Holland), Fastweb (Italy) and Swyazinvest (Russia).
Hello Everyone!
Nov 25th
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Video Calls on Symbian
Nov 25th
You all know Fring, the application that brings Skype, ICQ, Facebook and other services to your mobile phones, right? Up until now you were able to chat with your pals and to make voice calls but as of today you can also take things to a new level. Enter mobile video calls through Skype.
Just a few days back the Fring app was made compatible with the smartphones powered by Android OS but today’s news is an even greater break-through.
Unfortunately, the Skype video call capabilities will be available to a limited number of supported devices (all of them are Nokia smartphones). Those include the touchscreen equipped Nokia X6, N97, N97 mini and 5800 as well as Nokia N95, N95 8GB and N82.
And here is a short clip showing the video call capable Fring in action:
Sprint to put $1.176 billion into Clearwire for WiMax expansion
Nov 25th
Sprint Nextel on Tuesday agreed to pump $1.176 billion into Clearwire Corp., the public company building out the fourth-generation WiMax wireless network that Sprint is counting on to boost its own business.
Sprint’s partners in Clearwire, excluding Google Inc., will inject an additional $388 million to provide $1.564 billion for expanding the WiMax network. The money will start flowing Friday in a series of three installments, according to Clearwire’s public notice.
In the deal, Sprint’s 51.1 percent majority stake in Clearwire will grow to 56.6 percent.
Clearwire aims to reach more than 80 markets with more than 120 million people by the end of next year.
The investment came a day after Overland Park-based Sprint announced up to 2,500 layoffs systemwide, including an unspecified number here. The job cuts, to occur mostly by year-end, are expected to save the nation’s third-largest wireless company $350 million annually.
Shares in Sprint fell 19 cents to $3.24. Clearwire stock was up 45 cents to $7.25.
Clearwire on Tuesday also reported a quarterly loss of $82.4 million, or 43 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $72.7 million, or 45 cents a share. Revenue grew 13 percent to $68.8 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected a loss of 43 cents on revenue of $67 million.
Subscriber count climbed 18 percent, to 555,000, as net additions surged to 44,000 from 8,000 a year earlier.
