Ultrabooks are doomed unless prices tumble

November 10, 2011

Ultrabooks are doomed unless prices tumble On The Register, Paul Kunert explains. “According to DigiTimes, the PC vendors cut initial orders, believed to be between 250,000 and 300,000, to somewhere between 150,000 and 180,000 units,” he writes. What’s your opinion?

Analysis: Adobe had to cut its losses with mobile Flash On ReadWriteWeb,   provides some analysis. “Microsoft may already have come to this same conclusion a few months ago with respect to its Silverlight portable runtime. Like Flash, it provides functionality (a portion of the .NET Framework) and multimedia processing, though Microsoft has already announced it’s moving the emphasis of its Windows 8 development toward a new programming model based on HTML5,” he writes. What’s your opinion?

Zuckerberg: Google, Microsoft collect data “behind your back” On ZDNet, Emil Protalinski reports on what the young exec has to say. “Yahoo is more and more heavily relying on Facebook and has changed from downplaying the social network to leveraging it. Microsoft has a small stake in Facebook, and the two regularly work together. I’m not sure it’s wise to talk down these two, especially when the point is to explain why Facebook is superior,” he writes. What’s your opinion?

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