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Monday, August 31, 2009
Snow Leopard geared for multicore future
Mac OS X 10.6 begins a longer-term Apple attempt to get ahead by cracking a problem facing the entire computer industry: squeezing useful work out of modern processors. Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge...
Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro
As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which I installed on my 17-inch MacBook Pro. Here are some tips and observations As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which...
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Samsung Joins the App Store Party
The app store will initially be available in Europe. And only select models of Samsung phones, including the Omnia and I8910 HD devices can access the app store, says the company.
Samsung is late to the game. Since Apple introduced the iPhone App Store as a centralized clearing house for mobile applications in 2008, app stores have become an important part of the business strategy for most handset makers. BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion, Palm and Nokia have all launched app stores this year. Even cellphone carrier Verizon has been courting developers to create programs for its users.
The lack of Samsung’s app store’s availability in the U.S. is likely to dampen developer interest in its announcement. Earlier this month, the company announced the availability of a mobile widget software developer kit (SDK). The SDK would allow programmers to create widgets for different Samsung phones that use different operating systems, including the company’s own version. The company also plans to hold a widget developer camp in San Francisco from September 11-13.
For Samsung, that may not be enough to woo developers away from Apple, Palm and Android.
See Also:
- Verizon Promises Simpler, More Lucrative App Store for Developers …
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- Palm Pre App Store to Get Paid Apps in September
- Nokia Ovi App Store Faces Turbulent Start
- Happy Birthday App Store. It’s Been a Good Year
- Coder’s Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still ..
- Report: Sony Readies PSP ‘App Store’
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Leaked Asus Roadmap Shows Netbook With Ion Graphics and Multi-touch Tablet
Asus, which set the netbooks market on fire with its Eee PCs, has some exciting new products coming up for release this year. Leaked slides of the company’s product roadmap for the U.S. show it is planning to introduce a new netbook with a 12-inch display and Nvidia’s Ion graphics chip and a tablet PC with multi-touch capability.
The new netbooks are expected to be priced from $300 to $500, says the Netbook News website.
Despite an overall slowdown in PC sales due to the weak economic environment, the netbook market has been going gangbusters. Sales of netbooks grew 40 percent in the second quarter, almost twice that of the growth rate of larger notebook PCs, says DisplaySearch, a research arm of the NPD Group.
Asus’ 1201N netbook is likely to have a 12-inch display, an Atom N270 processor, 2 GB RAM and 250 GB storage. It will also include Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability and at $500 will be among the company’s premium products. The netbook is expected to be available in mid-October.
Around that time, Asus will also have a convertible tablet PC running Windows 7, says Netbook News. The $550 T91 convertible tablet is expected to come with a 32 GB solid state drive.
Check out a slide of the Asus Eee PC roadmap for details about upcoming netbook configurations and the company’s planned releases for the year.
[via Engadget]
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Fujitsu Services faces strike action from staff
Bryan Glick, Computing, Sunday 30 August 2009 at 01:00:00
Union members votes in favour of action over plans to shut final salary
pension
IT services provider Fujitsu Services is set for a battle with trade unions
after its employee members of Unite voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike
action.
The dispute centres on the supplier?s plan to shut its final salary pension
scheme and the imposition of a pay freeze.
The
company also announced last week that 1,200 staff will be laid off ? nearly
10 per cent of its UK workers - further provoking the union?s anger.
Some 87 per cent of Unite members working for Fujitsu voted in favour of
strike action and 96 per cent were in favour of industrial action short of a
strike.
The union claimed that the proposed pension change would reduce the total pay
package of each employee by at least 15 per cent.
?Fujitsu Services is not struggling or failing. It is a highly profitable and
successful company but one which is seeking to take advantage of the recession
to attack jobs, pay, pensions and conditions,? said Peter Skyte, Unite national
officer for IT and communications.
?Our members are insisting that the company should pay fairly and provide
decent pensions for all its employees. Following the announcement of 1,200
redundancies, they are now calling for the issue of job cuts to be included in
any ballot for formal industrial action. We are calling on the company to meet
us to resolve these issues and avoid the risk of damaging industrial action.?
Fujitsu has blamed the job cuts on lower-than-expected sales, despite making
a pre-tax profit of �200m last year.
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Video: 'A superb piece of art'
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Top 10 must-have iPhone business apps
Need to keep track of invoices or log your mileage? "Yep, there's an app for that!" After consulting with experts, we collected the best business apps that the iPhone has to offer.
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Turkey, Armenia Agree To Establish Diplomatic Ties
The neighbors agreed to relations, overcoming a seemingly intractable rift that dates to the early 20th century and was marked by massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule. It is unclear, however, if the talks would touch on the dispute over the World War I-era killings.
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