As the ongoing battle between Apple and Samsung continues to play out, the Korean electronics giant has decided to take it to a new and interesting level. They’ve rented a shop right by Apple’s downtown Sydney (as in Australia) shop with the hopes of snagging some buyers. To sweeten the pot, they’re also reselling their […]
Electronics Weekly announces a new memory technology in development by HP. The memristor (memory resistor) wafers are expected to be ready to market as a substitute for flash storage within the next 18 months. With continued development, the memristors ultimately serve as a replacement for conventional DRAM and SRAM. Senior Fellow at HP, Stan Williams, […]
Confrontational advocate of the open source computing model, Richard Stallman, blogged his own version of a eulogy for Steve Jobs last week. As a line item in his political notes section of his personal website, Stallman wrote, “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their […]
Forgive me, but this is going to be a bit of a rant. Apple ex-CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. The papers, internet, and social media are full of news and stories about the man, as well they should be. What’s insane is that the stock price has reportedly dropped ten points overnight. […]
As everyone probably knows by now, the rumor-mill has strongly indicated that today’s Apple iPhone event will give us some form of Sprint iPhone. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint committed to $20 billion worth of iPhone purchases over four years. That’s a heck of a commitment, especially when you consider how past […]
IHS iSuppli Research reports that the Amazon Kindle Fire, priced at $199, has $191.65 worth of parts and has a full manufacturing cost of $209.63. This means that with each machine, the online retailer actually loses a few bucks. Amazon likely intends to pick up the difference with media sales, and it’s not that bad […]
The long-awaited Amazon Tablet is here, and it was outed by Bloomberg a good five minutes before the actual event started. At just 7″, the Android-based dual core tablet lacks cameras and 3G connectivity (there’s Wi-fi though). The Fire resembles RIM’s Playbook (there’s allegedly a reason for that) and is a smart looking piece of […]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has made a breakthrough resulting in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries. Berkeley says the key is in the creation of a new polymer binder surrounding silicon particles that make up the anode of the battery. In existing li-on batteries, the silicon is surrounded by a binding material such as PVDF, mixed with […]
Solid state drive maker OCZ introduces a new product, the Synapse Cache SSD. This drive, available in a 64 GB or 128 GB version, is used with existing hard drives in a PC. Dataplex caching software included on the drive copies data from the hard drive to the SSD as needed for fast access and […]
Rumors have been flying around for a few days that computer giant HP was looking to shed their CEO Léo Apotheker. Here at Techcitement, we try to avoid rumors, but the impact of this one was enough to cause HP’s floundering stock to spike up. That was not a good sign for Apotheker. Low and […]
