February 1, 2010
Fujitsu: ‘iPad? That’s ours’
The Register
Rik Myslewski writes that according to Masahiro Yamane, PR director for Fujitsu, the iPad name belongs to the company, and not Apple.
“‘It’s our understanding that the name is ours,’Yamane said. Like the Apple iPad, the Fujitsu iPad (PDF) – which has been around since 2002 – is a mobile device with a touchscreen display. Fujisu’s model, however, is part of that company’s point-of-sale retail offerings. And Fujitsu isn’t the only iPad maker out there. Magtek also manufactures its own iPad encrypted credit-card swiper, Seimens uses the name iPad in conjunction with its engines and motors, and a Canadian company even offers a breast-enhancing iPad bra.”
Dell Adamo premium ultraportable drops to $999
ZD Net
Andrew Nusca writes about the price drop of Dell’s Adamo ultraportable PC product.
“Dell’s Adamo, the ultraportable laptop that ushered in the company’s new design direction and aimed to be a MacBook Air-killer, is now just $999. The Adamo ‘Admire’ model gets the three-digit price tag, and offers you a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Windows 7 Home (64-bit), 2GB DDR3 memory and a 128GB solid state hard drive. It used to be priced at $1,499. The higher-end Adamo ‘Desire’ model also gets a $500 price cut to $1,799 in exchange for a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo chip, 4GB memory, integrated mobile broadband and a 256GB SSD.”
Coming Soon: Google Wave Service Providers?
MSPmentor
Joe Panettieri writes that at Google’s upcoming I/O conference, they will describe how partners can become Google Wave Service Providers.
“At the Google I/O conference, there’s a Google Wave session, titled ‘Building Your Own Wave Provider.’ According to Google, the session will allow attendees to: ‘Learn how to build your own wave service. Google is open sourcing the lion’s share of the code that went into creating Google Wave to help bootstrap a network of federated providers. This talk will discuss the state of the reference implementation: the software architecture, how you can plug it into your own use cases – and how you can contribute to the code and definition of the underlying specification.’”
