2009年12月20日星期日

Sony Signs a Deal With News Corp

Exact sales numbers for e-ink devices are hard to hammer down, but analysts currently forecast the Kindle alone will bring home about $301.4 million in revenue for Amazon in 2009, and this number is expect to grow as high as $1.8 billion by 2012. Only time will tell if the Kindle will remain the dominant platform, but clearly its still anyone game at this point.

According to Reuters, Sony will offer monthly subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal for $14.99, MarketWatch for $10.99, and the New York Post for $9.99. It seems as though Sony believes the e-ink editions formatted for their devices can command a slight premium since the Wall Street Journal online can be viewed from any web browser for less than $8 a month at today’s prices.

This represents a pretty significant price delta, but it likely has something to do with the additional formatting that needs to go into reorganizing the content for a smaller screen.

In an increasingly overcrowded e-reader market, content will likely decide the ultimate winner. It worked for Apple, and Sony is hoping they are on track as well by signing new deals with News Corp to add content from the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and the New York Post to its e-ink devices.

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2009年12月14日星期一

MSI Boosts Ultrathin with X-Slim X600 Pro review

Including the 6-cell battery, the X-600 Pro weighs a scant 4.63 pounds and boasts a thickness of just 2.5cm, or a little under an inch. Adding to the sex appeal is a luminous scratch-resistant coating with silver accents.
On the hardware front, the X600 Pro packs the "latest" Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, up to 640GB of storage space, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330, 1.3MP webcam, optional Blu-ray drive, optional Bluetooth, 2-in-1 media card reader, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, three USB 2.0 ports (one of which serves double-duty as an eSATA port), HDMI, and Windows 7 Home Premium.
If you haven't gotten it by now, thin is definitely in, at least in the world of PCs. One company who's already been around the ultrathin block a time or two is MSI, who has just added its new X-Slim X600 Pro to its lineup of super skinny notebooks.
The mobile platform has been good to Asus, which further expects that its combined notebook shipments will reach 7.35 billion units in the first three quarters of 2009, and a respectable12 million units by the end of 2009. Driving those shipments is Asus' uber popular Eee PC line, with netbooks accounting for about 40 percent of the total shipments, Shen said.
Someone's feeling ambitious, and that someone is Asus. According to company president Jerry Shen, the multifaceted manufacturer expects to ship 600,000 ultra-thin notebooks by the end of the year and could ship as many as one million units.

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2009年12月9日星期三

Apple will ramp up production on its long-rumored tablet

Apple plans to produce as many as 1 million units per month. So assuming it needs five to six weeks of inventory before launch, we can expect it to arrive at market sometime in March or April. In preparation for that day, the company has evidently been evangelizing the device to the publishing industry.

Noting dissension in the ranks, Reiner adds, "As innovative as it is, we believe the Kindle has disgruntled the publishing industry (book, newspaper, and magazine) by demanding exclusivity, disallowing advertising, and demanding a wolfish cut of revenue. The tablet is set to change that. It should also make e-books more relevant for education by simplifying functions such as scribbling marginalia."

"Contacts in the U.S. tell us Apple is approaching book publishers with a very attractive proposal for distributing their content," Reiner wrote in a note to clients today. "Apple will split revenue 30/70 (Apple/publisher); give the same deal to all comers; and not request exclusivity. We believe the typical Kindle/publisher split is 50/50, rising to 30/70 if Kindle is given ebook exclusivity."

That's the word from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner who says his checks into Apple's supply chain indicate that "the manufacturing cogs for the [device] are creaking into action." According to Reiner, the tablet will have a 10.1-inch multitouch LCD display and a price point of $1,000.

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2009年12月7日星期一

The hands-on Noble's Nook review

First and foremost, while the Nook features the same 6-inch E-ink screen (600x800 pixels; 16 shades of gray) as the Kindle, it includes a separate, capacitive, color touch screen (144 x 480 pixels) that allows you to navigate content and use a virtual keyboard for typing searches and annotations. Furthermore, on top of its free AT&T 3G wireless connection, the Nook packs in Wi-Fi connectivity and a memory expansion slot; you get 2GB of internal memory, but can add up to an additional 16GB via the microSD card slot.
When Barnes & Noble unveiled the Nook, the first Android-powered e-book reader, a lot of people were excited, because it appeared to offer some key competitive advantages over Amazon's Kindle e-reader.
And finally, Barnes & Noble offers an e-book-lending option (for participating titles) and the capability to browse the full text of e-books on your Nook if you're in a Barnes & Noble brick-and-mortar store (the latter feature is due to launch in early 2010). Unfortunately, both the lending and in-store browsing features come with some significant restrictions.
Caveats notwithstanding, those features are nice extras, but the big questions are: how much of a difference do they really make in the overall user experience, and are they enough to push the Nook to the top of the e-book reader heap? Alas, the answer, you'll soon find out, isn't as clear cut as it might seem.

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2009年12月6日星期日

Dell is reorganizing the company around its newest product

Dell has recently fallen even further behind its once-lofty perch as the world's biggest producer of PCs. It is now No. 3 behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer, both of which offer consumers computers and smartphones. The company is, like most consumer hardware makers, increasingly moving to smaller mobile computers like smartphones and laptops as the desktop market has cratered.
Dell is forming a new communications business unit to be helmed by Ron Garriques, a former Motorola executive brought in to run Dell's consumer business two years ago, Reuters first reported Friday. Dell officials confirmed that the consumer group will be folded into the small and medium business group run by Steve Felice.
Dell started selling its first smartphone at the end of November in China and Brazil only. The new unit run by Garriques will develop hardware and software for phones and other mobile Internet devices.
I like the look of this.. how I pray that this phone will let you any MobileOS in full capacity and become the true open-source phone. Businesses will go crazy over this.
Also, I wonder if Dell will go back after Business Communications with this. They had plans to sell the Inter-Tel 7000 product before Mitel bought Inter-tel.

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2009年12月3日星期四

LCD Displays will Cost More in December

The sources note that monitor panels have already dropped below costs, so there really isn't much room for any more price drops. This has caused vendors to replenish their stock.
If you're hoping to score an LCD monitor upgrade in time for Christmas vacation, you may not want to procrastinate until the last minute. Citing anonymous industry sources, DigiTimes says LCD displays could go up a tick in price this month as retail channels start to restock their inventories.
There wasn't a lot of monitor growth in the third quarter, largely the result of rabid demand for notebooks and netbooks. Because of this, retailers ended up with high monitor inventories and lower prices. LCD makers responded by cutting their supply to the monitor segment. Know of a good deal on an LCD monitor? Share the link in the comments section below.
I wanted to get new monitors for both my desk and my sim racing cockpit and had been searching for good prices for months to no avail. This past weekend my home server died so I went to Fry's to get a replacement and finally yielded to temptation and got a 24" LG for $249 and a 27" LG for $379. That's more than I wanted to pay but I trust the brand and I'm happy with the products.
My theory is that all the production capacity has gone to producing flat-screen TVs so the price of larger monitors has gone up because demand is exceeding supply. Maybe intentionally, maybe not, but a couple years ago, I got a 26" LG for about $260 and despite the prices of most stuff going down because of the economic mess, the prices of monitors hasn't budged.
Also, if you order a monitor you don't know what you're getting because parts (screens mainly) vary to what's available to the manufacturer at the time (even in the same model). Some being vastly inferior to others.

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2009年12月1日星期二

Dell style, the new Precision M6500 17-inch mixes Core i7 with business savvy

In typical Dell style, the new Precision M6500 17-inch workhorse laptop has shown up on the company's website with nary a peep of self-congratulatory PR from Round Rock. Notable as the successor to the well-juiced M6400 and its even gaudier Covet variant, the M6500 boasts wallet-busting specs like a Core i7-920XM allied to a maximum of 16GB DDR3 memory speeding along at 1,333MHz, a choice of ATI FirePro M7740 or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M workstation graphics chips.
Support for up to three storage devices with optional RAID configurations, and a 1920 x 1200 LED-backlit display. The machine is not quite yet available to purchase, meaning it's safe to go beyond the read link without fearing any heart-stopping sticker shock.
This is a great laptop, the W700ds has mostly gimmicky features (like the tablet that's too small to be useful and the second screen that is too small, has worse colors, and is less bright than the primary screen), while these Dells focus on performance and useful features.

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