Dear friends, foes, and relatives. Please, don’t send that funny email. OK, actually, as a last exception, please forward this post to everyone you know. Thank you! Much love, J. Updated
Following the wretched quarter where sales dropped by almost half, Sony’s CFO said yesterday that Sony Ericsson desperately needed to raise cash—about 100 million euros ($US135 million)—this year to stay alive. [NYT]
Warning: Dell has not announced that their 10-inch, $US299 Mini 10v netbook will be optionally loaded with Google’s smartphone environment Android (Cupcake). But that hasn’t stopped Dell from demonstrating it working.
The pigs are advancing so quickly in their world domination plans that now they are opening headquarters in New York City. This is the Dragonfly Vertical Farm, a skyscraper designed for animals and agricultural production.
It could be an innocent statement of fact, but Sprint CEO Dan Hesse’s ‘admission’ that the company will have trouble meeting early demand for Palm Pres reeks of hypemongering. He’s not necessarily saying that there’s a Pre shortage, per se, but that demand will be super high—the exact thing you’d expect any CEO to say in the same situation.
For all its impressive engineering and hyper-stylised design, the ultrathin laptop category isn’t very enticing, mainly because every entrant is laughably expensive. But now, Intel’s trumpeting an entirely new approach to thin laptops: compromise!
Google PowerMeter, an online widget that monitors your home’s power usage in real time, is one of those ideas that really should’ve caught on by now. Well, it’s starting to!
The Gear: E-Mu’s Pipeline low-latency wireless music system, which lets you cut the cord on your guitar-and-amp rig for about $US200, or add portable wireless connections to your home sound system.
