Video: Samsung launch GTP1000 Galaxy Tab at Berlin Electronics Fair
Samsung have launched the Galaxy Tab, their first entry into the tablet market and the iPad’s first rival, at Europe’s largest consumer electronics show.
Cincinnati lures first new airline in six years with return of Air Canada – USATODAY.com
Image via Wikipedia The first new airline to enter the Cincinnati market in six years starts flying Monday when Air Canada makes a return visit to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). The airline will operate two flights daily to Toronto on its regional affiliate Jazz, with initial fares as low as $169 round trip. [...]
Office 2010 to Launch Today, Microsoft Owns 94 Percent of the Market | Daily Tech
Microsoft Office hasn’t had a true competitor in years. People, particularly news people, sometimes like to manufacture an opponent in such a case. In the case of Office, people have hailed Open Office and Google Docs as finally giving Microsoft a “fight”. While this may certainly someday come to fruition, such predictions are at the very least [...]
Exchanges to Retool Circuit Breakers – WSJ.com
Major stock exchanges agreed to introduce temporary trading limits on individual stock moves, following on Thursday’s volatile trading session, according to people familiar with the matter. While they did not settle on details, the leaders of six major exchanges agreed to “a structural framework, to be refined over the next day, for strengthening circuit breakers,” [...]
Editorial – Why Do Airlines Merge? – NYTimes.com
Airline lobbyists have grumbled there is “too much” competition in the nation’s skies since the deregulation of air travel in 1978, which allowed price competition and a host of new entrants into the market. Air fare per passenger mile has dropped by half since then. Many of the low-cost airlines flying highly trafficked and lucrative [...]
HP Expands Mobile Strategy with Palm Acquisition, What About Microsoft?
HP’s rode to Palm’s rescue and said after the markets closed yesterday that it would buy the struggling smartphone maker for about US$ 1.2 billion. Expanding HP’s Mobile Strategy “Well, the acquisition is good news for Palm, since they needed a savior,” said Laura DiDio, principal analyst at Information Technology Intelligence Corp. The big question [...]
Hertz to Buy Dollar Thrifty for $1.2 Billion – CNBC
U.S. car rental firm Hertz Global Holdings had agreed to buy smaller rival Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for about $1.2 billion to boost its presence in the leisure rental market. The deal marks a significant consolidation for the car rental industry, which is starting to recover from the global economic downturn helped by a pickup [...]
Why the iPad Matters — It’s the Beginning of the End
From my ECM-er perspective, the reason the iPad is so important is because it marks the beginning of the end of the old generation of publishing, and the popularization of e-publishing. Even if you are not a techie or ECMer, it would have been hard to miss all the marketing and press that has surrounded [...]
Microsoft To Unveil Zune Phone? — InformationWeek
Microsoft is planning to introduce a Windows Mobile-based phone in the coming weeks in order to keep up with rivals Apple and Google, according to a financial analyst. Jefferies stock picker Katherine Egbert said the company would likely unveil the device next month at the Mobile World Congress in San Francisco. Alternately, the software maker [...]
Tech Trends: What to Expect in 2010
It’s that time of year again, when gearheads and gadget hounds start salivating. Apple’s much-hyped multi-media tablet, Google’s new Nexus One phone and more are expected to hit the market in 2010. The world’s largest technology trade show, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, is only a week away, and with it comes chatter of tech [...]
