Dell’s Latitude 13 business laptop now available, looking businessy
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Hey, if you’re in the market for a beauty of a thin and light, and you mean business, you’re in luck today. Dell’s Latitude 13 laptop marketed for the business type (with a preinstalled Citrix client, simplified virtualization options and so on) is now available on the Dell site. With three customizing options — base, economy, and productivity packages — with a choice of Celeron M or Core 2 Solo CPUs, Linux, Vista, or Windows 7 OSs, up to 2GB of SD-RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. The starting price of one of these bad boys is $559. Hit up the source link to check it out.
Dell’s Latitude 13 business laptop now available, looking businessy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Opera 10.5 for Windows announced with speed boost, private browsing, and more
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Opera 10.5 for Windows announced with speed boost, private browsing, and more originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony now accepting Dash pre-orders, shipping April 15th
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Sony now accepting Dash pre-orders, shipping April 15th originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E hands-on
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Remind us to send a thank-you note to Hanvon for taking a break from cranking out e-readers to work on some of the best tablets we’ve seen at CeBIT yet — much more advanced that what was shown by the company back in September. While the TouchPad BC10C and BA10E didn’t have any special software running on top of Windows 7 Home Premium, both of their 10.1-inch, capacitive multitouch displays were extremely responsive. The BA10E was the more aesthetically-pleasing of the duo, with a smooth grey bezel and a thin, lightweight body that was cool to the touch. If you hadn’t guessed already, that beauty comes at a cost to processing speed, with just a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor inside. (Although the official specs list Windows XP and stylus input, as you can see in the video it was clearly using Windows 7 and multitouch — the Atom CPU might also be an error, but the rep on hand couldn’t say.) The BC10C, while bulkier, boasts an Intel Celeron chip — a little more power, but we can’t help but wonder how battery life would suffer. Hanvon told us these babies would run for about 500 euros, with release date currently unknown. You know the drill: gallery below, and video after the break.
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Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple specifically going after Android in HTC lawsuit
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There’s no delicate way to put this: at least part of Apple’s patent lawsuit against HTC appears to be a proxy fight for a larger issue with Android as a whole. Apple’s complaint with the International Trade Commission makes an explicit distinction between HTC’s Android devices and its WinMo phones (referred only to as “DSP Products”), and the Android sets are repeatedly called out for infringing certain patents. We don’t know exactly what Apple’s issue is yet — the problem could be the specific way HTC implements Android, rather than Android itself — but it’s certainly a big shot across Google’s bow. We’ll keep reading and let you know what else we find out.
Update: We’ve gone through each of the patents in both lawsuits and we’re more convinced than ever that this lawsuit is really about Android, not HTC. Check here for the full rundown.
Gallery: Apple / HTC ITC filing
Apple specifically going after Android in HTC lawsuit originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents
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Looks like Apple’s going on the warpath, kids. Just a few months after Cupertino got into it with Nokia over phone patents, Apple’s filed suit against HTC, alleging that the company is infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.” Steve, you have something to say?
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Okay then. We’re pulling the complaint filing now, we’ll let you know the exact details as soon as we learn them.
Update: HTC just gave us a statement — this is apparently coming totally out of the blue for them, since Apple hasn’t even served the complaint yet.
We only learned of Apple’s actions based on your stories and Apple’s press release. We have not been served yet so we are in no position to comment on the claims. We respect and value patent rights but we are committed to defending our own innovations. We have been innovating and patenting our own technology for 13 years.
Update 2: We mean it when we say this was all just filed in the past few hours — it’s not yet in the court’s systems. We just got the PDFs and put the full list of claims from the federal lawsuit below, but remember not to take the names of the patents literally or directly, since they don’t mean much. We’ll poke each one apart and tease out what’s really at stake as we go along.
[We've now looked at each and every patent in both cases in-depth -- check it out here.]
Update 3: We’ve just learned that Apple submitted over 700 pages of exhibits to the District Court, which is a little nuts. In addition, the ITC complaint lists a number of specific HTC handsets as exhibits, including the Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris. That’s really a full range of HTC phones, running both Android and Windows Mobile, with and without Sense / TouchFLO. Interestingly, the Android sets are specifically included because they run Android, while the WinMo sets are called out specifically for including DSP chips, not anything to do with Windows Mobile.
Gallery: Apple / HTC Delaware filing
Gallery: Apple / HTC ITC filing
Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rapoo 2900 wireless keyboard sports touchpad, Bluetooth, and that ineffable Rapoo charm
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Rapoo 2900 wireless keyboard sports touchpad, Bluetooth, and that ineffable Rapoo charm originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony outs good looking PC gaming headsets
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Sony outs good looking PC gaming headsets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Panasonic G20 HDTV review shows plasma’s still got it
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If you needed more proof that rumors of plasma’s demise were greatly exaggerated, just look at Panasonic’s latest, the G20. FlatpanelsHD took a 42-inch model fresh out of Panny’s massive new plant and ran it through a gamut of tests. The 1080p panel with its 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio blitzed all of them, delivering the infinite viewing angles, deep blacks, and rich colors that are the hallmark of charged gas, and doing so without the annoyance of active cooling fans. That said, the improvements here over the previous G10 series are said to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, with black levels about the same and network functionality little improved, meaning current owners don’t need to feel too bad. But, if you don’t mind waiting a little longer and paying for the latest and greatest, this looks to be it.
[Thanks, John]
Panasonic G20 HDTV review shows plasma’s still got it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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