British chip designer ARM said on Monday four to five PC makers will introduce a total of 6 new netbook models using its processors this year. The company claims its ARM-based netbooks will make up 20-30 percent share of the netbook market next year. Intel’s Atom processors, running Windows XP, currently dominate the netbook market. [...]
Smart meter developer Trilliant has announced today that it is buying SkyPilot, the Santa, Clara, Calif.-based wireless mesh network company used by defunct municipal WiFi company MetroFi. Trilliant plans to use SkyPilot’s municipal access points as aggregation points for smart meters. Trilliant has used cellular data in the past for their smart meter technology, but [...]
Google’s Android mobile operating system could be running on 18 to 20 devices by the end of 2009, according to Andy Rubin, Google’s senior director for mobile platforms. The Android OS is also expected to be on netbooks, soon, reports E-Week. Speaking at the Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco, Rubin said eight or [...]
This week, both Verizon and AT&T said they would offer the Pre in the future. Sprint doesn’t have a breakout phone like AT&T’s iPhone or Verizon’s Blackberry. Right now, Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, is easily commanding the enterprise space while the iPhone dominates the consumer space. The confirmation from Sprint came [...]
Pixel Qi says their new new color LCD displays combine the best of B&W e-ink with color and use far less energy than typical LCD screens. The screens offer two different modes, a backlit mode with full color saturation, and an ePaper mode that doesn’t require a backlight. The ePaper mode is much easier to [...]
Ford has GM’s OnStar service in their sights after introducing a software upgrade to the Ford-Microsoft Sync system that automatically calls 911 in the event of a crash, reports Wired. Dubbed 911 Assist, the program was first announced in 2008 but is now appearing on brand new Ford vehicles equipped with Sync. The program uses [...]
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