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Dell sells Motorola Droid for $119 with contract; $80 less than Verizon

That’s $80 less than you’ll pay if you walk into a Verizon store and purchase one. The difference between those phones and the Droid? Palm’s hardware hasn’t been moving off shelves quite like the Droid has. If I had to guess, I’d say Motorola and ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.

New Pogoplug brings hard drives online with additional USB ports, bright colors

The original Pogoplug was a $99 solution that turned any USB external hard drive or memory stick into a makeshift online server. On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced its new Pogoplug, adding more sync capabilities, additional USB ports and a splash of ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009

Next-gen Flip mini camcorder to sport Wi-Fi; Cisco influence finally materializes

Cisco-owned Pure Digital will launch a new Wi-Fi-enabled Flip digital mini camcorder that will go on sale in the early half of 2010, according to a new report. The new model will be the first to take advantage of Cisco’s networking technology since the ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99

The retailer is also offering free activation of the phone. (Sprint sells the Pre for $149.99 and the Pixi for $99.99.) But is it enough to save Palm? The Pre was once a top-flight premium phone, but its price point is exposing how quickly Palm’s ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Users should be smug, and why the Apple iPhone makes you feel smarter

Manufacturers build an awful lot of complexity into their gadgets, but very few of them take pains to hide it — leaving users confused, bewildered and angry. Who the heck wants to page through a 300-page instruction manual? That kind of attitude can ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid

It was just a month ago that Motorola’s Droid emerged as the best-equipped competitor to Apple’s popular iPhone, but another HTC phone is reportedly waiting in the wings to best them both. The HTC Dragon, also known as the Passion, is rumored to be in ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Motorola, Inc.,  Michael Arrington,  TechCrunch,  Qualcomm

Microsoft, former employee settle over spying claims

Way back in January 2009, Microsoft sued a former employee for applying for his job under false pretenses and using his role at the company to gain access to confidential data related to patent litigation he was waging. Ancora Technologies, the company ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Toshiba

Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399

We’ve recently updated it with more vendors, including Best Buy, Radio Shack and Meijer. Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Motorola, Inc.,  Best Buy

Hitachi debuts 2TB SimpleDrive; SimpleTech Pro, Duo Pro drives

Hitachi on Monday announced a new line of external storage drives with two terabytes of capacity: the SimpleDrive, SimpleTech Pro and SimpleTech Duo Pro external hard drives. The USB 2.0-powered SimpleDrive, which is compatible with PC and Mac, offers 2 ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hitachi, Ltd.

Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer

IBM is no longer king. The XT5 Jaguar, located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee, recently received a refresh that included upgrading its quad-core CPUs to hex-core Opteron processors. That means a 2.3 petaflop per second theoretical performance ...

From ANDREW NUSCA, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: IBM,  Jaguar,  AMD,  Intel

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