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June 30, 2007

Konichiwa iPhone! (video)

Our friends from the Nikkei's Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto bought the iPhone to try it out even if Apple's phone won't be available in Japan until next year. They actually queued since 10 on Friday morning to...

June 29, 2007

iPhone launch: Steve Jobs surprise visit to Palo Alto Apple Store (video)

I knew Steve Jobs was coming to Palo Alto when I saw an Apple PR friend of mine (Hi, Kirstin!) who's usually there when he is! How lucky though, as he could have gone to Valley Fair in Cupertino...

iPhone mania, but why?

We were this afternoon at the Apple store in Palo Alto, along with a couple hundred people, waiting in line to buy the iPhone. Surprisingly, this was much less than I expected. At least compared to game consoles launches for...

June 28, 2007

Questions: the good, the bad and the ugly... the HP way! (video)

I'm sure you always wanted to know how HP really felt about people asking them questions... say... about pretexting, for example ;-) Well, according to HP VP Gonzalez this is exactly the kind of a "poor poor" question! But just...

Roundbox brings TV Guide on cell phones... helps find video content (video)

So let's imagine for a second that Mobile TV takes off, which was the premise of last week's Churchill Club event. We'll receive TV and video content on our cell phone through Wi-Fi, the carriers' DVB-H/MediaFLO networks (broadcast) or...

Logitech unveils 2 new high-definition (HD) web cameras (video)

At this week's "Sneak Peek" event, Logitech unveiled 2 high-definition (HD) Web cameras: one for desktops (the QuickCam 9000) and one for laptops (QuickCam Pro for notebooks). Both have an MSRP of $99.99 each but you can get them for...

June 27, 2007

Mobile TV: Qualcomm's MediaFLO... or MegaFLOP? (video)

In the US, Qualcomm is pushing hard to establish it's MediaFLO mobile TV network as the de-facto standard. The demo by MediaFLO's VP Product Development, Jason Kenagy was actually pretty lame: "let me show a short video"... the service...

GoTV aims to be the HBO of mobile TV (video)

So GoTV Networks believes the cell phone will be the next mega TV marker. The mobile TV provider creates and distributes video content on-demand television programming customised for the cell phone experience, across carriers like AT&T, Sprint Nextel, BoostMobile...

The HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC, a radical new design (video)

At the HP Tech Forum last week, product manager Brian Allen gave a quick rundown to HP's top enterprise customers of the upcoming 2710p business tablet PC....

Mobile TV beyond the cell phone: let's start sharing says Texas Instruments (video)

At the Churchill Club event last week on the future of the Mobile TV market, Yoram Solomon (picture) demoed a cell phone that was playing a movie through a projector. However, Texas Instruments' marketing director of Mobile Connectivity Solutions...

HP's 2007 commercial notebook line: can you make it simpler? (video)

Last week, friendly HP product manager Brian Allen explained the new naming for HP's 2007 line of commercial notebooks. The good news is that the Palo Alto company reduced its number of platforms from 9 to 3 this year:...

June 26, 2007

Logitech shows notebook "essential" accessories (video)

Today, at Logitech's "sneak peek" preview event in San Francisco, the Swiss company showed its latest line of notebook accessories announced last week in Europe, including 2 notebook stands, the Alto Connect ($80) and Alto Express ($30) as well as...

Tape is not dead, vows HP's storage sales chief (video)

You wonder how an opportunist looks like? Well, look no further... we found one perfect example for you... Here's a short video of HP's VP of Americas for servers and storage sales, Mark Gonzalez... it's self-explanatory... no, I promise ;-)Tape...

Logitech: "sneak peak" of Fall line up in San Francisco this week

This week at the Clift hotel in San Francisco, Logitech is presenting its Fall line up (under NDA) of keyboards, mouses, web cameras, universal remote control and audio products (speakers, iPod docking station, home system), Internet phone headsets and their...

HP: "still" committed to Itanium... for real! (video)

So, I guess, the Itanium server chip is not dead after all. Well... actually HP is probably "the" sole reason why Intel has not shelved the moribund processor. The server company is slowly transitioning all its enterprise customers using...

Green is no new fad, says HP exec

At last week's HP Tech Forum, VP Americas of storage and servers sales, Mark Gonzalez, noted that this year, HP will recycle over a billion pounds of material. We've actually been to HP's recycling facility in Roseville, CA, this...

June 24, 2007

Seagate finally announces 1TB drive pricing, availability

After Hitachi and Samsung, Seagate announces today their 3.5-inch 1 tera-byte Barracuda 7200.11 drive with a 105MB/s sustained transfer rate – the highest ever. The drive has a low power rating of 8 watts at idle and acoustics, as low...