Archive for October, 2009 - Page 9

We’re not much into earnings and sales, but when it’s Microsoft publishing their third consecutive decline in quarterly revenue, something clicks and we’re intrigued. After making the official announcement for Windows 7 yesterday, today the business brains from MSFT have taken the time to report on the company’s total revenue, [...]

Regular TFTS readers should know that Dell have been on a launching spree this week announcing a new AIO PC, their first Android smartphone, a new MID and a multitouch monitor. What you guys may not know is that Dell’s been working on their first rugged tablet PC — the [...]

Apple have acted to hit back at the release of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, as one would expect them to, but, and perhaps it’s just me, Apple’s new “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” ads just strike us as serving to underpin something few would ever readily associate [...]

If you’re looking to harness the Sun’s rays for a little green tinged, free energy then you now have yet another solar charger vying for your attention in the form of the i.Tech SolarCharger 906 which serves to distinguish itself from the throng of comparable solar charges already out there [...]

You may have read reports recently that seem to suggest that Microsoft’s Xbox console looks set to gain a Blu-ray drive – the reports being based on comments made by MS’s Steve Ballmer – but it now seems that MS are acting to quickly to stem the speculation in claiming [...]

Following on form having just released their new Kindles, and specifically their Kindle International, Amazon have now confirmed that their Kindle for PC application, which will allow end users to gain access to over 360,000 eBooks which can be read directly via their PC, is set to become available as [...]

The day Android lovers are waiting for seems to be October 28. That’s when Verizon Wireless should launch the Motorola Droid. At least that’s how everything works in theory. What happens in real life is a very different thing. Motorola has officially revealed the Motorola Droid on its U.S. website [...]

I wonder if we will ever be satisfied with transfer and data speeds. Will there come a time when we’ll say that we simply don’t need the next G? Don’t get me wrong, right now we desperately need the next data transfer standard. But while some manufacturers are already testing [...]

If you were to choose between paying for a computer operating system and getting it for free on condition that you have to sit through various advertisements all day long, what would you get? Apple seems to be interested in developing such an OS as the Cupertino-based company has filed [...]

Imagine my surprise to see Nokia sue Apple. The Finnish giant has just realized that Apple is (allegedly) infringing no less than ten Nokia patents with its iPhone. The trial has been filed with the Federal District Court in Delaware and it should be a very interesting case to follow.