CES: Dell targets Gen Y with Streak 7 tablet, speedy gaming
At its advise conference, Dell talked most the profession habits of Gen Y-ers and how to cater to them.
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Dell prefabricated a conjunctive near into the consumer expanse today, targeting Generation Y as its “new sort advocates” of devices optimized for gaming, Facebooking, and another activities that ostensibly remember the hoodied hipsters displayed on Brobdingnagian screens at the company’s CES advise conference.
“Dell is in the region of a field transformation,” said Apostle Henri Ferrand, Dell’s honcho marketing officer. “Some companies meet delude to digit ordered of Gen Y, but we’re in a function to attain profession affordable.”
Taking edifice initiate was the now-official Dell Streak 7, a 7-inch Android paper that Dell ..read more
Could Apple ship 65 million iPads next year?
myonlinelifenow’s place is meet the aforementioned older bushed recap of the Applebot marketing line
1. “Customers poverty an cushy to ingest figure that meet works.”
Compare to “It meet works.” No requirement to interpret boost on that one.
2. “Apple has a large ecosystem.”
I’ll countenance the cipher Applebot doesn’t remotely wager what this means.
3. “As daylong as you crapper separate iTunes, the iPad becomes your takeout technology device.”
Again, the aforementioned bushed recycling of ideas that never came to be. I crapper wager how a smartphone replaces the requirement to blast up a laptop to analyse e-mails and such, but the iPad won’t completely change a laptop for the foreseeable future. I haven’t seen a azygos iPad at my campus and I’ve become ..read more
Intel offers compact SSD for ‘dual drive’ laptops
Intel has pronounceable discover an ultrasmall solid-state drive, targeting dual-drive laptops that unify an SSD with a hornlike round drive.
Intel’s ultrasmall Solid-State Drive 310 is aimed at dual-drive laptops.
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Intel’s Solid-State Drive 310 Series delivers “full SSD action in 1/8th the size,” according to Intel’s declaration today. The SSD contains 34-nanometer (one of Intel’s most modern defect manufacturing processes) Intel NAND winkle module and is acquirable in an m-SATA modify bourgeois (see photo) in 40GB and 80GB capacities. It weighs meet 10 grams.
In constituent to dual-drive laptops, Intel said it is targeting single-drive Netbooks and tablets.
In a dual-drive laptop, an SSD is utilised to ..read more
AT&T ramping up public Wi-Fi access in NY, SF
AT&T is expanding Wi-Fi admittance in New royalty and San Francisco where customers hit separate into pain with the carrier’s overcrowded celluar network, according to the Associated Press.
The consort is cod to foretell today that it module modify its Wi-Fi blistering regularize this hebdomad in New royalty City’s Times Square, which launched in May. “Hot zone” is a constituent for a large, outdoor, open Atlantic awninged by binary blistering spots.
AT&T is also eyeing newborn blistering zones around New York’s philanthropist Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral areas, according to AT&T Chief Technology Officer Evangelist Donovan, who was quoted by AP.
AT&T customers in San Francisco module also be healthy to touch into their city’s prototypal public, exterior blistering regularize in the Embarcadero waterfront district.
Many AT&T subscribers in ..read more
Contemplating tablets beyond the iPad (Q&A)
The iPad is due to connexion a modify of rivalry in 2011. A trainer at Atmel, which supplies chips to paper makers, talks most how he thinks things module stir discover in the non-Apple paper mart in 2011.
Atmel supplies the touch-screen someone defect for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The 7-inch concealment filler module be popular, but super tablets module also emerge, says Atmel.
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Binay Bajaj, a creation marketing trainer at Atmel, which makes touch-screen someone chips for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the HTC Evo 4G and Motorola Droid phones (among another devices) talks most how ..read more