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LG Signs Deal With Apple For Their Displays

by | Jan 12, 2009 | | 0 |

 

  Apple has signed a deal with LG for their display technology.  The deal begins with a payment from Apple of $500 million and will last 5 years.  The implications for both companies could be quite large.  LG will benefit in obvious ways, but Apple may benefit from a more cost effective display for a more pocket-friendly cinema display or maybe even their own TV’s, which had been rumored in the past..  The details at this point are sparse, but it will be interesting to see what product changes, if any come from this deal in the future.

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Google Continues to Archive Old Newspapers So We are not Doomed to Repeat

by | Sep 8, 2008 | | 0 |

  

  Google is continuing its effort to archive old newspapers to give us easy access to the days past.  The scanning and archiving of newspapers has been something Google has been hard at work at for 2 years already.  They have been working with the New York Times and the Washington post and are now expanding to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "the first newspaper West of the Allegheny Mountains, to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph which has been in business for 244 years and makes it America’s oldest paper to still be around.  

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Google and Yahoo Still Teaming Up in October

by | Sep 7, 2008 | | 0 |

  

  Google and Yahoo will continue their transition to an ad partnership next month.  This news is not new as this was reported back in June of 2008,  the deal and suits coming against it are however.  The Association of National Advertisers has voiced its concerns via a letter to government regulators concerning the partnership and what it could mean to the industry.  The idea is that Google would place its ad services along side Yahoo search results in an attempt to have a strangle hold in search and ad marketing and would easily snuff out the little guys in search like Microsoft.  

 

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Samsung Seeks Serious Sandisk Assimilation

by | Sep 5, 2008 | | 0 |

  

  Samsung is thinking over whether they want to buyout Sandisk.  Sandisk is already a giant in the memory market, but they are apparently not happy with that. Samsung is optioning a possible buyout of Sandisk to give themselves world domination of the memory market which could cause severe pain to Toshiba.

 

"We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk, but nothing has been decided yet," Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters"

 

As if they did not have enough memory in iPods and every other gadget in the world.  As long as the prices stay low,  we’re good…

 

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Nokia Now Shipping N96

by | Sep 3, 2008 | | 0 |

  The world’s largest phone maker, Nokia, has begun shipping its new top model, the N96.  The N96 is the replacement for the N95 which is the most capable and somewhat more so competitor to the iPhone 3G.  

 

The N96 has a 5-megapixel camera, 16 GB of internal memory, GPS navigation and live television support.

 

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