This tech CEO has all the right credentials to steer a digital-music start-up.
In addition to degrees in computer science and economics from Stanford University, Prerna Gupta is expert in all things Britney Spears.
Prerna Gupta, a code-writing former beauty pageant winner who is now CEO of start-up Khush, sings to her iPhone app, LaDiDa. (Credit: Khush)
Gupta is a former beauty pageant winner who aspired to follow in the hip-hop dancing footsteps of her childhood idol, Spears. Now, as the 28-year-old CEO of Khush, the company behind a new iPhone app called LaDiDa, Gupta's performance background may help her as much as anything she learned in college.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20002465-261.html
Updated 7:48 a.m. PDT with additional details, and at 8:18 a.m. following a conversation with Google.
Almost everything you've ever said on Twitter is about to be discoverable through Google.
Google announced plans Tuesday to roll out a timeline of archived Twitter messages organized by topic, allowing searchers to see when Twitter activity spiked with tweets related to their search query. When the user clicks on a particular day that contained an outsized number of tweets related to that topic, they'll be presented with a scrolling list of the individual tweets from that day.
It's sort of like the timeline search feature that Google rolled out several years ago, only for tweets. Searchers will be able to start at "right now" at the far right-hand side of the timeline and scroll back through time by moving to the left.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20002453-265.html
Robonaut 2, the humanoid working robot that's been under development with NASA and General Motors, is finally ready to show its stuff in outer space, GM announced Wednesday.
The Robonaut 2, aka R2, will take up residence at the International Space Station, with a voyage to its new home planned for this September as part of the STS-133 mission on the space shuttle Discovery.
The Canadian Space Agency already has a humanoid robot residing at the International Space Station for spacewalk. Like the R2, it also has two long arms for completing tasks otherwise done by astronauts. Its primary coverage is the exterior of the space station. The R2, in contrast, will be covering the Destiny laboratory, one of the five U.S.-named modules attached to the International Space Station. The robot will be tested for how well it fares with vibrations, zero gravity, radiation exposure, and electromagnetic interference.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-20002479-72.html
Some iPhone developers that make apps for Facebook got quite a surprise on Tuesday--their developer credentials had been deleted, without warning, leaving their apps and customers high and dry.
All Facebook developers have their own set of credentials so their apps can communicate with the APIs provided by the company. When iPhone apps contact Facebook, the site responds and recognizes the developers' credentials, allowing the apps to do their intended jobs. Without those credentials, apps error out.
NodConcept's Chris Diskin, makers of the Emoti for Facebook app, said he was contacted via e-mail on Monday by Apple saying that Facebook believed his app was infringing on their rights. They provided him with contact info at Facebook and said he had five days to resolve the issue.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20002481-37.html
The European Commission will ask the public for their thoughts on Net neutrality this spring, digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has announced.
Speaking at a conference held by French telecoms regulator Arcep on Tuesday, Kroes said the Internet is "not an inherently neutral platform." This means that European regulators have to make choices about whether to allow ISPs to prioritize certain types of online traffic, she added.
For the Commission to draw up a policy on Net neutrality, Kroes told the audience that she plans "to launch a public consultation before the summer."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20002499-93.html
A 10-minute YouTube video called "The Yippity Yo Cooking Show" falls somewhere to the left of "Saturday Night Live" at its most surreal: The host, "Zaylee Jean," alternates between extreme seriousness and manic outbursts, with diction so slurred that it's subtitled (in the cartoonish Comic Sans font). Among other antics, she smears the mix for a batch of chocolate chip cookies all over her face, nibbles ingredients off the counter, and routinely pauses to scream something like "I LOVE COOKIES!" at the top of her lungs.
A key point: Zaylee Jean is three years old. The plucky toddler in a flowered sundress and wispy blond ponytail has become YouTube's most unlikely new hit, with a steady cult following of offbeat hipsters fast propelling it to the milestone of 100,000 views. Like so many videos of cherubic youngsters before her, the clip can prompt a dual reaction: on one hand, she's delightful; on the other, in a few years when Zaylee enters the social Hades known as "middle school," the video will likely still be there.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20002416-36.html
Microsoft says it has launched an investigation into labor practices at a Chinese factory following a report alleging the vendor used large numbers of teenagers working in harsh conditions for low pay to build the company's mice and other products.
The investigation follows a report from the Pittsburgh-based National Labor Committee that found the KYE facility in Dongguan City, Guangdong, China allegedly uses significant amounts of teenage labor and has workers laboring as much as 80.5 hours a week for wages that amount to just over 50 cents an hour in take-home pay.
The National Labor Committee uses this photo at the top of its report alleging harsh working conditions at a China factory that makes Microsoft mice and other accessories.(Credit: National Labor Committee)
"We are like prisoners," one worker told the NLC, according to the report. "It seems like we live only to work. We do not work to live. We do not live a life, only work."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20002500-56.html
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.--The U.S. auto industry needs to "go green' in more than one way, says Bill Ford.
Ford is committed to making its vehicles more fuel efficient by investing in a number of technologies, including electrification, biofuels, fuel cells, and more efficient gas engines.
But auto manufacturing itself needs to be "reconsidered" so that it's not all about smokestacks and environmental hazards, Ford said Wednesday during a talk at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference here. Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford, is the executive chairman of the company's board of directors.
Bill Ford speaking at Fortune Brainstorm Green(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET)
"It's incredibly important to the economic vitality of the country that we make things here. But we won't make things the way we did in the past--we have to do it differently," he said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20002512-54.html
WASHINGTON--The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told a Congressional panel on Wednesday that a recent court ruling that the agency lacked authority to regulate the Internet should not prevent it from carrying out its plan to broadly expand the country's high-speed Internet service.
But the chairman refused to say if the commission would try to reclassify Internet service as a utility similar to telephone service to overcome the court decision, a move that some Democratic senators supported but that several Republican senators strongly warned against.
http://news.cnet.com/Despite-ruling%2C-FCC-says-it-will-move-forward-on-expanding-broadband/2100-1028_3-6250559.html
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev already has a LiveJournal.com page, a video blog on kremlin.ru, and a Twitter account is in the works.
But the full extent of Medvedev's unalloyed geekiness wasn't apparent until a question-and-answer session in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Putin was in town for the 47-nation nuclear summit.
During an appearance at the center-left Brookings Institution, the head of the Russian Federation suggested that he and President Obama should dispense with their legions of aides and chat on iPhones through text messaging instead.
"We don't e-mail each other (but) that would be the fastest possible way to talk to each other," said Medvedev, according to a translation. "In this case, we could just have a couple of iPhones and we could just exchange text messages or e-mails. I am quite familiar with that, as well as President Obama, as far as I understand." (Obama has a BlackBerry.)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002555-38.html
An unpatched hole in Java was being exploited to target visitors to a song lyrics Web site and more attacks are likely, researchers warned on Wednesday.
The flaw in Java Web Start, disclosed last week by several security researchers, affects Windows systems running Firefox and Internet Explorer, said Roger Thompson, AVG chief research officer. He said he couldn't get it to work on Chrome though, despite reports that it does.
Thompson found exploit code for both the Java hole and one in Adobe Reader on servers in Russia that was triggered by computers visiting English-language site Songlyrics.com. The site was later cleaned up, he said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20002530-245.html
Hewlett-Packard is being scrutinized by authorities in Germany and Russia for paying bribes to win a contract to sell computers to the Russian government, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal cites "people familiar with the matter" in reporting that German prosecutors are investigating whether HP paid $10.9 million for the chance to sell a sophisticated computer system providing secured communications to the Russian prosecutor general's office through a German subsidiary company.
HP's offices in Moscow were reportedly raided Wednesday by Russian investigators looking into the matter on behalf of the German prosecutors. Specifically, they were looking for evidence that HP used a series of shell companies in a variety of countries--Britain, Austria, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands, Belize, New Zealand, Latvia, Lithuania, and the U.S.--to create a fund that paid the Russian prosecutor's office.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20002546-260.html
SAN FRANCISCO--The atmosphere, predictably, was one of sunny world-changing collaboration as Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams took the stage on Wednesday morning for Chirp, the company's first-ever developer conference. The two spoke separately: Stone discussed the company's past, and Williams went into what it's working on to get to the next level.
They had to keep things positive. Much of the audience consisted of developers who aren't really sure what will happen to the flexible communication platform now that Twitter has begun announcing official mobile clients and rolling out an advertising program, dual moves that have alarmed many creators of Twitter client and advertising apps.
"Twitter has always been about developers," Williams said. "Twitter is the ecosystem much more than any other Web service that exists. You guys have not only made Twitter better, you've helped shape it, you've helped define what it is for us and millions of users."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20002483-36.html
The PC industry bounced back during the end of 2009, and was able to continue its momentum through the first quarter of 2010.
PC shipments rose 24 percent from the same quarter a year ago to 79.1 million units worldwide, according to IDC's Quarterly PC Tracker report, issued Wednesday. It's the second straight quarter of double-digit growth, and indicates the industry is on its way to recovery after a disastrous late 2008 and most of 2009.
"We had such a strong fourth quarter that there was a risk of having addressed the urgent demand, which was largely (coming from) consumers in the fourth quarter. Channels might have still had inventory or the holiday promotions having passed so consumers and small business buyers just wouldn't be buying as much" this quarter, said Loren Loverde, IDC analyst. "We normally expect a seasonal decline from Q4 to Q1 and this didn't happen."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20002523-260.html
[AT&T announces plans to invest $1 billion to upgrade its network, services and products worldwide as well as efforts to continue to expand and deploy LTE and Wi-Fi based applications.]
Dallas -- AT&T plans to invest approximately $1 billion in 2010 to scale its delivery of applications, mobility and cloud services for global companies, to expand small business services within the United States and to continue extending its network globally.
The 2010 investment program for businesses is part of AT&T's overall existing capital plan. With business customers seizing the opportunities created by the continued proliferation of high speed communication networks and mobile computing devices worldwide, AT&T's 2010 program includes:
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/06/143543.html
[Microsoft reported to be set to launch a new line of cell phones next week.]
"Targeting youngsters, new line of cell phone is planned to be unveiled by Microsoft accompanied with social networking facilities next week. An event will be organized by the company on April 12 but the whereabouts of the event are still not disclosed."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/06/143916.html
[Apple introduces the iPhone 4.0 OS that includes multitasking capability,lets users organize their mobile apps into folders, a unified inbox for mail and new security features.]
BY P.J. Connolly, Cupertino, CA -- "Device management, multitasking and a unified inbox for e-mail are expected to make Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release a must for corporate users. The iPhone 3G and the second-generation iPad Touch will be able to run the new OS. However earlier generation iPhones will are not capable of running the new version, according to Apple officials."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/09/114608.html
[Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 offers iAds, a new way of displaying and viewing ads on a mobile platform.]
By Brad Stone (NYT) -- "Echoes of the last Apple hype cycle have not yet faded, and another begins. Today (April 8) on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif., the company offered a “sneak peek” into the future of the iPhone OS — the software that will likely run the next version of Apple’s iPhone, which may be released this summer."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/09/115351.html
[TD-SCDMA handset shipments forecast to grow 600 percent annually in China this year.]
Boston -- According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, China’s 3G TD-SCDMA handset shipments will grow 600 percent during 2010. With the backing of the world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, TD-SCDMA will be one of the fastest growing mobile technologies in the world, making China an important 3G market.
Tom Kang, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “We forecast TD-SCDMA handset shipments to grow an impressive 600 percent annually in China during 2010. Aggressive marketing and subsidizing of new phones and keener pricing of services by China Mobile will make TD-SCDMA one of the world’s fastest growing mobile technologies.”
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/12/125139.html
[The Dell Mini 3Ti and Mini 3iX are expected to debut soon in China.]
By Owen Fletcher (Computer World) -- "Pictures of two Dell smartphones, including one with China's 3G mobile standard and a new body shape for Dell's phone series, have been posted on the Web site of a Chinese regulator."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/12/130121.html
[Verizon Wireless and Sprint combined generated 63% of the US mobile network data traffic in 2009 reports ABI Research.]
New York -- In 2009, AT&T’s network issues may have led some to conclude that its network was carrying the most data traffic. But according to ABI Research, Verizon Wireless carried the most, followed by Sprint. Customers of these two operators generated 63% of the US market’s mobile network data traffic.
Says practice director, Dan Shey, “Interestingly AT&T had the most activated data devices in 2009. But it is laptop mobile data connections that have the most impact on operator data traffic levels. Mobile broadband laptop connections to Verizon and Sprint each far exceed AT&T’s laptop connections.”
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/13/115825.html
[Microsoft's new Kin One and Kin Two lets users stay closely synched with social networking sites.]
By Ashlee Vance, San Francisco (NYT) -- "Microsoft is trying to home in on a younger, chattier demographic with two new cellphones centered on social networking."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/13/120036.html
[Nokia's three new handsets are designed to offer messaging and social networking tools at affordable prices.]
Espoo, Finland -- Nokia has announced three new handsets - the Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 - designed to put better messaging and social networking tools in the hands of more people around the world, at affordable prices. These new handsets feature full QWERTY keyboards, and enable access to a range of different email accounts, IM communities and social networks.
"Our messaging device range is very successful," said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Head of Markets. "Services that provide easy access to the world's consumer and corporate email and instant messaging are really popular on our QWERTY smartphones such as the Nokia E71 and Nokia E63. People want the best messaging and social networking experience on an affordable device, whether it's sending a simple text or instant message, an email, or a direct message from their Twitter account. The Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 are made for just that."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/13/120230.html
[Microsoft, Sharp, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone unveil KIN, a new Windows Phone designed to be "the ultimate social experience."]
Redmond, WA -- Microsoft Corp. announces KIN, a new Windows® Phone designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives. Brought to life through partnerships with Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Sharp Corporation, KIN is designed to be the ultimate social experience that blends the phone, online services and the PC with breakthrough new experiences called the Loop, Spot and Studio. KIN will be exclusively available from Verizon Wireless in the U.S. beginning in May and from Vodafone this autumn in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
"Working closely with our partners, we saw an opportunity to design a mobile experience just for this social generation — a phone that makes it easy to share your life moment to moment," said Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. "We built KIN for people who live to be connected, share, express and relate to their friends and family. This social generation wants and needs more from their phone. KIN is the one place to get the stuff you care about to the people you care about most."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/13/120336.html
[Qualcomm announces new FLO TV interactive features, pay-per-day and event passes, and 'catch-up TV,' ]
Las Vegas -- FLO TV Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), today announced at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas that it is working to enhance its mobile TV service with new applications that integrate video with Web-based content and social media tools. The expanded capabilities are in response to the ways in which consumers today are simultaneously viewing and interacting with content.
“With consumers’ mobile entertainment habits evolving rapidly, FLO TV will be integrating its current live linear video with relevant, on-demand content and interactive features that complement the programming viewers are watching in real-time,” said Bill Stone, president of FLO TV. “Our innovative, nationwide multicast network is at the heart of this solution and will allow us to distribute live mobile TV and rich mobile media services to a range of new devices – from smartbooks to e-readers and tablets.”
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/14/110829.html
[Huawei becomes latest name to surface as possible bidder for Palm.]
Shanghai/New York (Reuters) -- "Palm Inc, may be scooped up by an Asian company with enough cash and manufacturing muscle to turn around the struggling smartphone maker, but analysts warn a deal could prove too rich for any buyer at current prices."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/14/111109.html
Las Vegas -- Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media today announced plans to form a standalone joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service. Utilizing existing broadcast spectrum, the service will allow member companies to provide content to mobile devices, including live and on-demand video, local and national news from print and electronic sources, as well as sports and entertainment programming.
Broadcast spectrum to be utilized for the new mobile service will come from the three owned-and-operated station groups -- Fox, NBC & Telemundo, and ION -- and the nine local broadcast groups, which are Belo, Cox, E.W. Scripps, Gannett, Hearst, Media General, Meredith, Post Newsweek and Raycom. Separately, these nine local broadcast companies formed Pearl Mobile DTV Company LLC as a vehicle for their involvement in the venture.
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/14/111305.html
[Apple says strong demand for the iPad in the U.S. is delaying the international launch date of the device one month to the end of May.]
By Franklin Paul and Gabriel Madway, New York/San Francisco (Reuters) -- "Apple Inc said it would delay for one month the international roll-out of its iPad tablet computer, due to heavy demand and swift sales after its launch in the United States."
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/15/011255.html
San Francisco -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that LG Electronics is its newest member. LG will participate in the Linux Foundation's events and community development efforts.
LG is a global leader in serving the mobile devices, home electronics and home appliances markets. Because of LG's established leadership, it can significantly contribute to the rapid shift towards a computing world in which all devices are connected, all the time, and from anywhere. Linux is naturally positioned to usher in the connected world of computing and LG's participation in the Linux Foundation will help advance the operating system.
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/15/011359.html
Reston, VA -- comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on mobile gaming highlighting the potential for growth in the mobile gaming market despite a 13-percent decline in the number of U.S. mobile gamers during the past year. This overall decline was driven by a 35 percent decline in mobile gaming among feature phone (i.e. non-smartphone) subscribers, who represent approximately 80 percent of the market, which contrasted with the sizeable 60 percent increase in the number of gamers via smartphone.
"Although the number of mobile gamers has declined in the past year, there is reason for significant optimism about the future of this market," said Mark Donovan, comScore SVP Mobile and senior analyst. "As the market transitions from feature phones to smartphones, the dynamics of gameplay are also shifting towards a higher quality experience. As a result, we can expect to see a profound increase in adoption of this activity, both in terms of audience size and overall engagement."
Smartphone Subscribers Heavier Mobile Gamers
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/04/15/011715.html
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. military has begun testing massive high-tech dirigibles — designed to provide battlefield commanders with a bird's-eye view of cruise missiles or other threats — in the skies over the Utah desert.
An unmanned 242-foot-long balloon was launched Wednesday morning about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City. It stayed aloft for about three hours before it was pulled back down as planned, according to Paula Nicholson, a spokeswoman for Dugway Proving Ground.
Vast tracts of military-owned desert were chosen for the testing because of their remoteness and resemblance to the mountainous, arid environment of Afghanistan, the military said in a statement.
Known as aerostats, the dirigibles are outfitted with radar and communications systems to provide long-range surveillance targeting threats from aircraft, ballistic and cruise missiles.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ih5-WPrJgqz6JAONtBlF7HOHiyXwD9F344IO1
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's top narcotics prosecutor complained about Deborah Madden's "disturbing" behavior before the police crime lab technician came under suspicion of stealing drug evidence, according to documents that also reveal the prosecutor feared police supervisors weren't taking steps to control her.
Assistant District Attorney Sharon Woo wrote in a newly released Nov. 19 e-mail that chronic staff shortages at the police drug analysis unit, and in particular Madden's failure at times to show up to testify in court, were jeopardizing narcotics cases.Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/14/MNFG1CTG56.DTL#ixzz0l8VcCQFH
After IT bellwether Infosys' Q4 results beat street expectations, shares of other IT companies too rose on Tuesday in anticipation of good earnings.
The BSE IT index was the best performing sectoral index on the exchange, as it jumped 3 per cent on a day when the Sensex closed down 0.17 per cent.
Shares of Infosys jumped 3.69 per cent to close at Rs.2782.85. They were the biggest gainer among the Sensex stocks on Tuesday. “Absolute share price upsides are limited on the stock. However, it could be a relative outperformer in a weak market,” said a research report by Religare Enterprises on Infosys.
The other IT stocks in the Sensex pack – TCS and Wipro – followed Infosys on the gainers list.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/14/stories/2010041457511100.htm
Shares of Linear Technology Corp. rose more than 3 percent Wednesday, a day after the company reported more than double net income in the third quarter.
Milpitas-based Linear Tech (NASDAQ:LLTC) shares were at $30.61 in midday trading.
Late Tuesday the company reported third quarter net income of $100.6 million, or 44 cents a share, compared to $49.3 million, or 22 cents a share in the same quarter last year.Read more: Linear Tech more than doubles Q3 profit - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/04/12/daily42.html
Despite the gains from Intel, some analysts who follow the company raised questions about how much higher the Dow Jones Industrial Average component's shares can climb. Read more about the outlook on Intel's shares.
With Intel in the lead, nearly every other major chip company saw its shares rise Wednesday. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index /quotes/comstock/10y!i:sox (SOX 397.73, +16.40, +4.30%) rose 4.3%.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-stocks-boosted-by-intel-chip-gains-2010-04-14?dist=countdown
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has outsourced its internal tech support to Indian technology services firm Infosys, the companies have announced.
The move was first revealed in an Infosys press release announcing a three-year deal to “manage internal IT services for Microsoft worldwide” and later confirmed by the US software giant. “As part of this managed services agreement, Infosys will streamline implementation processes, simplify support and service, while at the same time lowering the enterprise costs through the use of the latest Microsoft solutions such as Windows 7,” Infosys said in a statement. No financial or other terms of the deal were released. But Microsoft said that it would still retain strategic functions in its internal IT management and was engaging Infosys to consolidate service previously provided by a variety of outside vendors.
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/news/software__services/Microsoft_picks_Infosys_for_tech_support/articleshow/5800055.cms
The 2010 winners have been announced for the Millenium Technology Prize, an award given every other year to individual inventors who are responsible for practical innovations. This time around, the awards went to three scientists for innovations in plastic electronics, the invention of the ARM microprocessor, and the development of dye-sensitized solar cells.
The Millenium Technology Prize was established in 2004 by the Technology Academy Finland to recognize practical contributions to the advancement of technology. The inaugural award went to Tim Berners-Lee, the person credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Entrants are evaulated on their work's impact on quality of life and sustainable development now and in the future, and how significantly their work contributes to technological change.
Professor Sir Richard Friend is one of the new laureates for his work in plastic electronics, and for his contribution to the creation of organic LEDs. His methods have given rise to many other polymer innovations, like a polymer transistor that can be dissolved into an ink to be printed onto circuit boards, as well as low-cost polymer solar cells.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/tech-prize-awarded-for-plastics-processors-and-solar-cells.ars
Earlier this week Chrysler and NASA announced an alliance to share information related to advanced technologies.
Several topics being considered for the three-year collaboration include: materials engineering, robotics, radar, battery systems and other energy storage mediums.
"This is a great opportunity to share knowledge and data in areas where both Chrysler Group and NASA have a vested interest," senior vice president, Chrysler Engineering Scott Kunselman said. "We value the opportunity to work with NASA and will implement what is learned to further improve our Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram Truck products."
http://www.cnet.com.au/nasa-chrysler-collaborate-on-advanced-tech-339302459.htm
(Reuters) - U.S. tech stocks jumped higher on Wednesday after strong earnings and forecasts from Intel Corp (INTC.O) further galvanized hopes that the beleaguered technology sector's recovery was underway.
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Analysts say Intel's better-than-expected revenue and margin forecasts for the second quarter and 2010 had heightened expectations for a faster and stronger recovery in everything from computers to software, potentially triggering a sustained stock rally.
Intel, whose chips power more than three-quarters of the world's PCs, said on Tuesday that business spending was growing again and it was increasing capacity to meet stronger-than-expected demand.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63D3F520100414?type=globalMarketsNews
BEIJING // China’s decision to relax rules on the way it obtains foreign technology has stemmed from pressure from countries concerned that their companies are being shut out, analysts say.The loosening of restrictions that required Chinese technology to be bought for government contracts follows pressure from the US and the EU over what were seen as protectionist measures.
China’s ministry of science and technology has published draft rules saying that to be eligible for consideration for government purchase, high-tech products must have patents and trademarks registered in China. Previously companies had to show patents were developed solely in China or the trademark was first lodged there.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100415/BUSINESS/704149916/1005
When The Times of Shreveport, La., commissions its WIFAG Berliner press at the end of September, it will have a solid prepress foundation in place to anchor operations.
The paper is in the midst of a phased rollout of NewsWay software from ProImage, which began late last year. The app will help the paper manage new and existing equipment and merge front- and back-end apps to allow the publisher to manage and track pages and plates throughout each stage of the production workflow, Project Manager Andy Swanton told News & Tech.
"Phase one late last year was to drive to our 3850 film imagers and to replace the RIPs and get rid of aging hardware," he said.
http://www.newsandtech.com/news/article_6cb32c9c-3b55-11df-a12d-001cc4c002e0.html
The Chicago Tribune is kicking off an effort to turn its dusty archived photographs into a shiny new revenue opportunity.
"The overall goal is to figure out how the company can monetize its resources that are currently archival in nature - photos, old newspapers," said Randall Weissman, the Tribune's news administration editor. "We need to get them digitized and figure out how to market them."
To that end, the publisher is undertaking the task of digitizing and licensing its assets for search and sale.
http://www.newsandtech.com/news/article_8931a886-3b54-11df-8b95-001cc4c002e0.html
Slammed by the decline of ad and circulation revenues and flattened even further by the Great Recession, U.S. newspaper publishers' intentions to diversify their production infrastructures remain very much a work in progress.
There are exceptions. Transcontinental Northern California, for example, cloaked its manroland presses with both heatset and coldset capabilities. The Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, Va., has the same flexibility with its Goss International FPS machines. The Butler (Pa.) Eagle, the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah, and Rotary Offset Press in Washington state also boast heatset/coldset machines. Next up: four KBA Commander CT heatset/coldset presses slated for Transcontinental's Canadian plants, scheduled to be in operation later this year.
http://www.newsandtech.com/news/article_6f0ea52a-3b50-11df-917e-001cc4c002e0.html
Google is reworking its privacy settings again for the oft-maligned Buzz social media/email aggregation tool. Primarily, the company is asking Buzz users to review their settings, who they’re following, who is following them, and who sees public versus private Buzz posts. I actually like Buzz, but don’t work in an environment where a lot of people are communicating in a more real-time social way. Email remains king at my day job. However, I have to wonder if Buzz was damaged beyond repair by its ill-fated launch.
For any of you not familiar with Google Buzz, the company provides a handy YouTube primer:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1937&tag=content;col1
A change in Apple’s new iPhone OS 4 developer’s agreement is putting application writers through all 5 stages of grief ever since it was released last week. According to the Kübler-Ross model, the 5 stages of grief are: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Since the change, Anger and Denial have been reverberating across the net, with signs of Bargaining and Depression to follow. Is Acceptance on the way, or will this be the final straw that drives developers to Android and other alternative operating systems?
It started when Apple released a software developer kit for its upcoming iPhone OS version 4. Before using the new SDK, developers must click on one of those “I agree” buttons indicating acceptance of pages and pages of legalese that nobody ever reads. Well, almost nobody. Daring Fireball’s John Grober read it, and (in apparent defiance of Apple’s secrecy clauses) posted the interesting parts on his blog. Now Apple is faced with the biggest brouhaha since the App Store was created. Section 3.3.1 is the part that has developers up in arms:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1904&tag=content;col1
Microsoft has outsourced its internal IT services—help desk, desk-side services, infrastructure and application support—to Indian outsourcing firm Infosys.
For Infosys, managing Microsoft’s internal IT gives it a high-profile customer and insight to using the latest technologies from the software giant. Infosys will manage IT services for Microsoft employees worldwide. Microsoft has noted that Infosys is benefiting from a consolidation of services that were already outsourced to HP and others.
Also see: Microsoft downplays Infosys IT outsourcing deal
Specifically, Infosys is tasked with streamlining processes, simplifying support and service and cutting costs by using Microsoft’s own software, say Windows 7. Infosys will support Microsoft’s applications, devices and databases in 450 locations. Infosys has partnered with Unisys to deliver on-premise support and service desk capabilities.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33035&tag=content;col1
The good folks at iFixithave partnered up with the reverse-engineering gurus at Chipworks to give us an inside view of Apple’s A4 processors as used in the iPad.
We now get to see Apple’s A4 CPU, X-rayed and uncovered.
Image courtesy of iFixit/Chipworks
There are some interesting highlights uncovered from this investigation:
The A4 package is composed of three layers: two layers of RAM (Samsung K4X1G323PE), and one layer containing the actual microprocessor.
This Package-on-Package construction allows Apple to source the RAM from any manufacturer they want. While Apple is sourcing the RAM from Samsung now, this could be changed.
The A4 processor is a single-core CPU, making it either an ARM Cortex A8 or a single-core variant of the A9. Most likely, it’s an A8.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7928&tag=content;col1
Oracle today showed off the beta of a “much faster” MySQL and insisted that the company will continue to invest in the open source database.
At the annual MySQL conference, Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect and leader of the MySQL business, said the beta delivery of MySQL 5.5 along with the SQL Workbench 5.2, mySQL Cluster 7.1 and mySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2 upgrades demonstrates the company’s commitment to an open source database that some believed could threaten Oracle’s stronghold in the database market.
mySQL 5.5, for instance, uses InnoDB as the default storage engine and offers a performance improvement of more than 200 percent and more than 10 times improvement in recovery times, Screven said.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6250&tag=content;col1
Palm is putting itself up for sale and reportedly has recruited Goldman Sachs and long-time Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone to get the deal done. Palm has gone from darling to selling itself in just a few months. Here’s a look at the best (and worst) case scenarios for Palm’s future, developers and customers.
First, Bloomberg is putting some meat on rumors that Palm is going on the block. It’s notable how fast Palm put itself up for sale. You can tell Elevation Partners, Palm’s primary shareholder, is losing patience and doesn’t want to watch its investment crushed by a vicious cycle. In 2009, Palm made a big splash with the Palm Pre. The product came out of the gate relatively strong, but later faltered. Now the Palm is the best deal on the smartphone block as Verizon Wireless tries to rid itself of inventory. Palm has a snazzy mobile operating system dubbed the WebOS, but the company’s troubles could give developers pause. Without an ecosystem, the WebOS is toast.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32979&tag=wrapper;col1
It’s official: Microsoft’s Pink project is no longer a mystery (or even a partial mystery). The details are out, and the name of the phones, targeted at the teen/twenty-something market, is Kin.
There have been plenty of rumors. But now the specs and actual photos are here. There’s a Kin One and a Kin Two (”Turtle” and “Pure”). Sharp, Verizon and Vodafone are, indeed, the partners. Verizon is going to start offering the first Kins in the U.S. in May and via Vodafone in Germany Europe in “the fall.
Now that the Kin cat is out of the bag, here are a few things I found surprising about the devices (after reporting for more than two years on every twist and turn about Pink):
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5867&tag=content;col1
Apple today announced that it is delaying the release of the iPad for international markets by one month because “demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks.”
In its media advisory Apple also reveals that the company has already sold over 500,000 Wi-Fi iPads to-date and that it has taken a large number of pre-orders for the 3G models which will ship by the end of April.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=6602
Microsoft Semblio. You may never have heard of this Microsoft educational-software add-in/toolset that was codenamed “Grava.” But some of my readers had. In fact, some were tinkering with the Semblio software development kit, investigating ways they could use it to extend Office with educational content.
Suddenly, the dedicated Semblio Web page on Microsoft’s site disappeared. The Semblio SDK download is still available. But it seemed Microsoft had decided to nix the product, one of my readers said, with no warning or fanfare.
It turns out Microsoft hasn’t killed Semblio. Instead, it’s turning the Semblio software into a service. Here’s the response I received from a Microsoft spokesperson when I asked about Semblio’s whereabouts:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5905
Last year at this time, I compared six music services to iTunes and came away most impressed by a tiny company called Lala. (I was still impressed in this follow-up post six months later.)
Lala was an indie upstart in April 2009, with 30 employees (all but five of them writing code). They had a unique business model—one insider told me, “We want to be a cloud music app”—and a high-octane software development cycle that had the company releasing new versions of its web-based client every two to three weeks.
Lala’s founders cashed out last December, selling the company to Apple for an undisclosed price. And since then? Lala’s innovation has stalled. Or, more accurately, it’s shifted into reverse. At least one key feature has been removed, the much-anticipated iPhone app has been scuttled, and support has turned sluggish.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1955
ModMyi reports that Apple has booked the same conference center where the company announced the three previous versions of the iPhone for June 22, 2010. Looks like the perfect time to announce the fourth generation iPhone hardware. It also reports about the “a late-breaking tip from Flurry Analytics suggested the possible existence of a Verizon iPhone being used in the US in recent days.”
[update: My apologies, the headline mistakenly said May when it should have said June. I also added "Rumor" as these reports are unverified.]
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=6607
As I noted in my post over on Between the Lines (”Why doesn’t IBM just buy Novell already?”), I’ve been testing OpenSUSE’s Linux for Education Project and Ubuntu 10.04 server beta 1. I have a couple of problems that I was hoping they could solve: 1) a thin client environment that would allow me to redeploy several stacks of colored iMacs; 2) an easy Moodle setup that I could not only use for some pilots but share with colleagues looking to deploy their first LMS; and 3) determine if Ubuntu really should reign among Linux distros in education (and elsewhere).
Why use the early beta of Ubuntu Server? I wanted to evaluate whether it was as cool as the desktop version of 10.04 and I was working in a non-production environment, so why not? Today I did actually leave it behind and began using 9.10 to solve some problems with LTSP and Moodle, by the way, but overall, it’s quite solid for the first beta.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3767&tag=content;col1
Mark Shuttleworth says the next generation of Ubuntu — dubbed Maverick Meerkat — will be lean, mean and social.
In his blog posted Friday, the Ubuntu Linux founder said he is shooting for a “Perfect 10″ with the 10.10 release, which will follow the 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” Long Term Support release now in beta.
“Once we have released the LTS we have plenty of room to shake things up a little …. Meerkats are, of course, light, fast and social – everything we want in a Perfect 10. We’re booting really fast these days, but the final push remains. Changes in the toolchain may make us even faster for every application,” Shuttleworth penned in his blog.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6193&tag=content;col1
I’m having an identity crisis. Regular readers of both this blog and my Education blog will know that I border on being a Google fanboi and Linux tends to work its way into my computer passions as well. I work almost constantly in the cloud and Linux obviously provides a cheap, stable platform for whatever I want to do online. My primary desktop and exclusive web and file server platforms? Ubuntu. Google Apps makes my life easy in my day job and manages virtually all of my communication needs in and out of work. However…
Apple is sending me a MacBook Pro and an iPod Touch to evaluate as an instructional platform and I’m actually excited about it. I’ve been tired of my MacBook since about 6 months after I got it, but more than a few Mac fans have told me that’s simply because I’m not fully exploiting the software and platform. Sure, I’m a cloud sort of guy, but how much am I missing in terms of creating rich interactive content for the students and teachers I support as well as for readers? I may find (as I’ve always expected) that the platform can’t justify the cost (and, in fact, that the platform itself may be a problem given its closed nature), but maybe not. Will the Mac inspire me to create new kinds of content when I’ve largely stuck with written media for so long? I may be reading-oriented, but a lot of people with whom I work and interact aren’t. We’ll see.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1930&tag=content;col1
Ubuntu has earned a reputation as the most user-friendly version of Linux on the planet, but I would argue that the secret of success for Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is not really about a great UI or an extensive hardware compatibility list.
What Canonical does really well is to methodically produce incremental upgrades to its OS. It is transparent about its goals and plans, and it releases its software on schedule. In fact, this incremental approach is Ubuntu’s most potent competitive weapon against rivals Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is also an approach that CTOs and other IT leaders who produce software, Web sites, and other product-based Web services can learn from.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32985&tag=content;col1
In March, I ran on my blog a slide that showed Microsoft’s datacenter expansion plans for its Online Services, the team that oversees Microsoft’s hosted cloud offerings like the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
On April 14, Microsoft announced the global expansion plans indicated by this slide. BPOS commercial availability is being added in April for 17 new markets. As of today, Microsoft is adding support for the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania. Later in April, Microsoft is adding: Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Trinidad & Tobago.
Countries that were on the November BPOS roadmap slide but are not part of this announcement: Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. (South Korea and Taiwan were mentioned as countries which would be added to the line up in July 2010, according to the November roadmap). Countries for which BPOS support was announced today that weren’t mentioned in November included Cyprus, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Peru and Trinidad & Tobago.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5901&tag=content;col1
Intel’s Atom chip, which has primarily been used in netbooks, will increasingly be deployed in new areas—including embedded applications, home monitoring, smartphones and automobiles to name a few.
The news comes on the heels of Intel’s stellar first quarter results. On the conference call, CEO Paul Otellini mentioned plans for dual core Atom chips. The plan is to develop “derivatives of our new Atom processor for many new market segments,” said Otellini.
Here’s a look at the other Atom money quotes from Otellini:
There is Atom in netbooks and then there is Atom going into other products. Atom going into other products is design cycle and you will see other kinds of products with Atom in it over the course of this year.
The next innovation coming out on Atom is Dual Core which comes out in the second quarter. So that will ramp for the holiday season this year and I think that will be a very attractive product. Then in early Q1 we have another integration at much lower power product coming out that is a derivative of it for SanDisk netbook business. You will see us use technology to make the platform a bit better each time or to integrate more features and make it cheaper.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33080&tag=wrapper;col1
Yesterday, April 13th, marked the end of the road for Windows Vista RTM.
It’s that time again…what time is that, you ask? Could it be the U.S. April 15th Tax Deadline? Spring Break? Daylight Saving Time? No, it’s not any of those. But it is the second Tuesday in April, which means it’s time for certain Microsoft products to reach the end of support.
This time, Windows Vista with no service packs installed (sometimes referred to as RTM or SP0) will be reaching end of support on April 13th.
What does that mean for users still running this OS? Well, basically this means that Microsoft will no longer provide any more security fixes for that OS. You’ve reached the end of the road.
So, what do you do? Well, you either need to download and apply Service Pack 2 (or the earlier Service Pack 1 if you feel like it), or upgrade the OS to Windows 7. Or make the leap to Mac … or Linux …
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8025&tag=content;col1
Apple said Wednesday that it is delaying the international launch of the iPad by a month because it can’t keep up with demand.
The company said in a statement:
Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks.
Toss in preorders for iPad 3G models by the end of April and Apple can’t meet demand.
Given the supply situation, Apple said it won’t launch the iPad abroad until the end of May. Apple plans on taking preorders for the international iPad May 10.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33085&tag=content;col1
Adobe dropped a bumper patch for its PDF Reader and Acrobat today to fix 15 documented security holes that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.
The update is rated “critical” because of the risk of remote code execution attacks via rigged PDF files.
According to an advisory from Adobe, the vulnerabilities affect Adobe Reader 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.1 (and earlier versions) and Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows and Macintosh.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6135&tag=content;col2
Over on Threatpost, Dennis Fisher has a story about a serious Java vulnerability that leaves users running any of the current versions of Windows open to simple Web-based attacks that could lead to a complete compromise of the affected system.
The flaw was disclosed publicly this week by two separate researchers. One of the researchers, Tavis Ormandy of Google, said he decided to go public when Sun declined to issue a prompt fix.
Ormandy explains:
Sun has been informed about this vulnerability, however, they informed me they do not consider this vulnerability to be of high enough priority to break their quarterly patch cycle.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6082&tag=col1;post-6161
Just days after Google researcher Tavis Ormandy released details on a dangerous new Java vulnerability, malicious hackers have pounced and are exploiting the flaw in the wild to launch drive-by download attacks.
Virus hunters have spotted the attacks on a popular song lyrics Web site. Any visitor to that Web site with the Java Plugin for Browsers installed (Internet Explorer or Firefox) will get infected with malware.
According to AVG’s Roger Thompson, the attacks are likely to spread because of the simplicity in launching a successful exploit:
The code involved is really simple, and that makes it easy to copy, so it’s not surprising that just five days later, we’re detecting that code at an attack server in Russia.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6161&tag=content;col2
"Predictions are critical to modern life. Police predict where and when crimes are most likely to take place, banks predict which loan applicants are most likely to default, and hotels forecast seasonal demand to set room rates. A new project called Kaggle facilitates better predictions by providing a platform for forecasting competitions. The platform allows organizations to post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best statisticians. It will offer a robust rating system, so it's easy to identify those with a proven track record. Organizations can choose either to follow the experts, or to follow the consensus of the crowd — which, according to New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki, is likely to be more accurate than the vast majority of individual predictions. The power of a pool of predictions was demonstrated by the Netflix Prize, a $1m data-prediction competition, which was won by a team of teams that combined 700 models. Kaggle's first competition is underway, and it is accessing the 'wisdom of crowds' to predict the winner of this May's Eurovision Song Contest."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/192213/A-Crowdsourcing-Project-To-Make-Predictions-More-Precise
"How many hours a week should a full-time programmer program? Trying to program anywhere near 40 wears me out. On a good week, I can do 20. Often, it is around 10 or 15. I'm talking about your programming session at the console, typing — including, of course, stopping and thinking for a minute, but not meetings, reading programming books, notes, specifications, etc., which by comparison feel like lunch breaks. I rarely get called to meetings (which is good) but that means to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc.). I should add that I am interrupted a few times per day. Me and another guy maintain an intranet site of a couple dozen web apps for an IT department, so we work on a few different things: phone calls, bug fixes, feature adds, as well as writing new web apps from the ground up, all in a day's work. And I know that wears a person out more than if they had just one project to work on. I wonder if programming is like mental sprinting, not walking, so you can only do it in bursts. Am I normal or stealing?"
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/1925218/How-Many-Hours-a-Week-Can-You-Program
"A dozen years ago, Microsoft convinced major manufacturers to put Windows CE inside devices that looked like undersized touchscreen personal computers. The platform was code-named 'Jupiter' and shipped as Handheld PC Pro, and it flopped — it turned out that people wanted full-strength notebooks. But in retrospect, it was a clear antecedent of what Apple is doing — much more successfully — with the iPad."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/209234/The-iPad-vs-Microsofts-Jupiter-Devices
"EditShare will release its video editor as open source this summer. Lightworks handles high-definition media, DPX, and RED, shares projects with Final Cut Pro and Avid, and was recently used by Academy-award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker on Shutter Island. Introduced in in 1989 and bought by EditShare last year, it 'has come from over one million hours of software development,' says EditShare's James Richings. But he says releasing the source will 'generate concepts and capabilities never seen before. I expect that the Lightworks Open Source initiative will transform not only the technology, but also the opinions on what a professional editing tool can achieve.'"
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/2034255/Lightworks-Video-Editor-To-Go-Open-Source
"As reported on news.com.au, scientists from the International Cancer Genome Consortium of 12 institutes around the world will today release the first DNA profiles of some of the most prevalent types of tumors. While the story asserts that 'A new era of cancer treatment has dawned,' I'm a bit more skeptical, given that gene therapy and immunotherapy are still very much in their infancy at the current time."
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/2214255/DNA-Cancer-Codes-Cracked-By-International-Effort
Hugh Pickens writes "AP reports that National Security Agency director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander says the US should counter computer-based attacks swiftly and strongly and act to thwart or disable a threat even when the attacker's identity is unknown. 'Even with the clear understanding that we could experience damage to our infrastructure, we must be prepared to fight through in the worst case scenario,' wrote Alexander in a 32-page Senate questionnaire he answered in preparation for a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to head Cyber Command. Alexander offered a limited but rare description of offensive US cyber activities, saying the US has 'responded to threats, intrusions and even attacks against us in cyberspace,' and has conducted exercises and war games, adding that it is unclear whether or not those actions have deterred criminals, terrorists or nations."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/2219251/Military-Asserts-Right-To-Respond-To-Cyberattacks
Dave Knott writes "The international launch of the iPad has been delayed until late May, a one month setback from the original launch window of late April. Citing Apple's press release: 'Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.' International pricing will be announced on May 10, at which time international pre-orders are expected to begin." http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/2247200/Heavy-US-Demand-Delays-iPads-Worldwide-Release
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