Hardware

New BlackBerry Prototype Is Given to Developers – New York Times

Apps have became an important selling point for smartphones since Apple opened its App Store … “To be quite candid, this hardware is a little bit pokey,” he said adding that the prototypes will not offer the same battery life … Continue reading

RIM Releases BlackBerry Prototypes to Kick Off New Smartphone – Bloomberg

“What we’re doing is giving them hardware they can build on … had struggled to keep up with the Web capabilities and apps of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android devices. The prototypes will come loaded with an … Continue reading

Will Broadcom Stumble in Qualcomm’s Footsteps? – Motley Fool

Few companies catch Apple’s tailwind quite like Broadcom does. Only Samsung and Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM ) provide a greater share of the hardware inside your average Apple gadget. Broadcom is a much smaller company than either one of those …

The behind-the-scenes smartphone parts war – Courier-Post

Unlike personal computers, where technology investing used to be simple with a few leaders such as Microsoft and Intel, mobile computing has many players whose shares trade on U.S. markets. They range from Apple to lesser-known companies such as …

Portable Hard Drive provides dual FireWire 800 ports. – ThomasNet Industrial News Room

With password protection and hardware encryption, users can protect files from unauthorized … Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the first 2 TB capacity portable drive dedicated for Mac® customers, My Passport® Studio(TM).

Service provides online HD streaming of live events. – ThomasNet Industrial News Room

To view the DEMO 2009 conference live online March 2-3, go to http://www.demo.com/live BitGravity has low hardware start-up costs and to stream live with your HD camera and Internet connection, BitGravity requires only an Apple Mac Pro loaded with …

Microsoft to invest $300M in Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-book platform – Apple Insider

Apple also increased its push for digital textbooks earlier … Barnes & Noble has attempted to shift its business to the digital world, selling the Nook e-reader hardware and also offering e-books through its Nook platform on a range of … Continue reading

Apple Building Restaurant So Staff Can Freely Share Secrets – Toms Hardware

Now, when are they going to get a bar that staff can drink in without having to worry about losing precious prototypes? Apple knows that sometimes all it takes for a secret to get out is for a stranger to … Continue reading

It’s not a BlackBerry World anymore – msnbc.com

RIM has stressed that the device’s hardware bears no relation to the finished product … down from 14.6 percent a year ago. Apple and Android smartphones accounted for almost three-quarters of the market, up from less than half a year … Continue reading

Australian parliament launches probe into Apple price gouging, as Apple TV hits Brazil for $211 – 9TO5Mac

Husic also raised similar pricing complaints over Apple’s hardware products, something that the Brazilian market is experiencing today with the release of the new Apple TV: “In very broad terms, for example, and taking into account taxes and …