Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid: Breaking down the basics After teasing smartphone fans for weeks by selectively leaking out details of its highly-anticipated smartphone, Google Tuesday took the lid off what can best be described as the "Droid-Plus." Mobile augmented reality market to top $700 million in five years The mobile augmented reality market will reach $732 million by 2014, fueled by paid application downloads, subscription services and advertising, according to a new report from Juniper Research. CES: Toshiba rundown of some new notebooks Toshiba gives me a quick rundown of some of their new netbooks and notebooks, including my favorite - the latest Qosmio gaming notebook. CES: Fly a helicopter with your iPhone! I've seen a bunch of remote-controlled helicopters and toys before, but this was the first one that combines two of my favorite technologies: Wi-Fi and the iPhone. The "device" getting a lot of attention at CES this year was the AR Drone, from France-based Parrot. Users control the helicopter via an iPhone and Wi-Fi connection, and a camera lets you see what the copter sees. CES: Plastic Logic's QUE e-reader is all business I first experienced Plastic Logic at the DEMO conference, and the result of that work was announced at CES, the QUE e-reader, which not only can read e-books and magazines (it will be sold through Barnes & Noble), but also offers business users additional document and presentation viewing, as well as annotation ability and BlackBerry synchronization of document attachments. The price may seem high... 2020 Vision: Why you won't recognize the 'Net in 10 years As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the U.S. are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They're envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Intel CEO shows first Moorestown smartphone Intel on Thursday showed the first smartphone based on its upcoming Moorestown platform for mobile devices. Google takes wraps off Nexus One Three years after rumors of a Google phone first surfaced, the search giant has taken the wraps off its own branded and designed mobile phone, the Nexus One. Verizon Wireless flexes LTE muscle at CES Verizon Wireless demonstrated a series of technology prototypes this week to show how end users would benefit from its upcoming LTE network. Alienware M11X: Big Gaming Performance in Tiny Package If you want to play games on your laptop - real games, not Farmville on Facebook - you need one of those big, heavy, expensive desktop replacement laptops. Or so goes the conventional wisdom. Or, maybe you can get away with a fairly heavy and pricey 15" laptop. Well, Dell's Alienware division is throwing the rule book out with its terribly interesting M11x model. HP Slate Lowers the Bar for Apple's Tablet PC Steve Ballmer's keynote address at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) did not unveil the rumored Microsoft Courier tablet PC. Ballmer did take the opportunity, though, to reveal an HP tablet PC dubbed the "Slate". Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus Coming to Verizon Palm's CES 2010 press conference didn't offer nearly as much fanfare as last year's event, where the company unveiled the Palm Pre. But Palm did announce new phones, a software update, and new partnerships, proving that this once-struggling handset company is not just a one-trick pony. AT&T Hedges Bets, Adds Android and WebOS AT&T is embracing the Google Android and Palm WebOS operating systems--adding a total of seven new handsets in 2010 built on the new mobile operating systems. With speculation that its iPhone exclusivity will soon end, AT&T is expanding its portfolio, but AT&T is at a disadvantage and it may be too late to start hedging bets. 4G networks step closer with Voice standard LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks, better known as 4G, looks set to take off now that major carriers have agreed on the "One Voice Profile," a standard that defines a viable solution for voice in LTE. Today from the Subnet communities New giveaways! Win a year's worth of 24/7 video training from ClipTraining. Win books on WS2008 R2, Cisco WAAS and the CCIE. Deadline Jan. 31. Plus: On Cisco Subnet: Cisco buys Rohati Systems; On Microsoft Subnet: Charting out prices for Office 2010; On Google Subnet: Google plans free white spaces database. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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