Apple and News Corp launched The Daily, an iPad-only newspaper, Feb. 2. A lot of attention will be focused on whether its model can succeed in a dynamic marketplace. – Apple and News Corp launched The Daily, an iPad-only
newspaper, Feb. 2 in New York City. Priced at 99 cents per week (and $39.99 per
year), the publication enters a complicated and dynamic media environment that
seems to take special pleasure in crushing upstarts.
The question is whether the iPa…
Adding to the popularity of its Relational Database Service (RDS) with MySQL, Amazon Web Services will soon add support for Oracle databases under RDS. – Amazon Web Services has announced that it
plans to make Oracle Database 11g available via the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS), during the second quarter of 2011.
Amazon
RDS is a Web service that makes it easier to set up, operate and scale a
relational database in the cloud. …
NASA readies the space shuttle Discovery for its scheduled launch on Feb. 24. – The space shuttle Discovery reached Launch Pad 39A following its 3.4
mile trek on the crawler-transporter from the Vehicle Assembly
Building, NASA reported, noting the first motion began Jan. 31.
The space agency reported the rotating service structure was closed
around Discovery the morning of …
GSLO has announced that it has received the first shipment of Volt solar chargers for testing. The company says it will test them for manufacturing quality before they ship to users in the US. Apple has blocked the Sony Reader app from the App Store. The reason the app was blocked is that in-app purchases [...]
Apple and News Corp plan on launching an iPad-only newspaper, the Daily, Feb. 2. The Daily will reportedly cost 99 cents per week. – Apples iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper created by News Corp starting Feb. 2, according to an invitation circulating among media.
That digital publication, the Daily, will cost 99 cents per week. According to Reuters, the original Jan. 19 unveiling date was scrubbed “because of technical gli…
NASA works to gather financial support for a final space shuttle launch tentatively planned for late June. – As the space agencys storied space shuttle program winds down, NASA announced it has “baselined” the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. The mission would see space shuttle Atlantis deliver supplies to the International Space Station, including a replacement for a malfunctioning pum…
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard publicized four new business application appliances that are a result of a joint investment and engineering partnership to combine applications and productivity tools into a single ready-to-install box. – Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard published a roadmap outlining their
launch plans for the four new converged appliances on Jan. 19. These
appliances combine applications, infrastructure and productivity tools
into a single system.
The four appliances, HP Business Decision
Appliance, HP E5000 Messa…
Among the 41 new items are a line of low-end storage servers, an upgraded version of the Data Domain backup packages, a Data Domain archiver, a branded Isilon "big data" array, and new software for its Symmetrix VMAX systems. –
Storage giant EMC likes to do product launches in a big way. But on Jan. 18 the company outdid even itself with a rollout of 41 new enterprise storage products, the most it has introduced at one sitting.
EMC’s new items, which will become available this quarter, include a
line of low-end stora…
Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SGXL.SI), Asia’s second-largest listed bourse operator, said on Wednesday it will launch the world’s fastest trading engine, called SGX Reach, on Aug 15 as it tries to compete with rivals.
SGX said last year that it would invest $250 million for the new trading infrastructure that will enable overseas customers to trade through the bourse at a lower cost.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 didnt meet initial expectations, according to an LG Electronics executive quoted by a blog, although he declined to offer sales figures. – Microsofts Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early
disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive.
“From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but
from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James
Choi, a marketing strategy and…
Oxley Holdings Limited says all 41 apartment units of Loft@Holland were taken up within two hours of the soft launch today.
Demand was strong enough to require balloting to be conducted for all but two units.
On average, there were about three interested buyers per unit. The units were booked at prices up from $1,630 psf to $2,166 psf and the buyers were mainly Singaporeans.
Verizon Wireless is allegedly announcing its support for the iPhone Jan. 11. No wonder AT&T has been bolstering its Android support for 2011. – Last Friday night the cry rang out: the Verizon iPhone is
coming, the Verizon iPhone is coming.
Several journalists and bloggers
received this
invite to a press event helmed by Verizon President and COO Lowell McAdam
slated for Jan. 11 in New York. All indications this is the Verizon iPhone
c…
Discovery’s long-delayed launch is pushed back again as NASA officials address cracks in the space shuttle’s external tank. – NASA managers are evaluating potential launch dates for space shuttle Discovery in late February and working to see if International Space Station orbit operations would allow a launch as early as Feb. 24.
The space agency said more would be known next week and managers hope to set a launch date…
News Analysis: AT&T lags behind other carriers as it prepares its high-speed network for eventual launch. But it says it will start rolling out 4G LTE service in mid-2011. – AT amp;T,
playing catch-up to Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, announced at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network
sometime in mid-2011 and in the meantime will continue to finish its existing
3G HSPA+ network.
The
carrier, still struggli…
The new Mercedes C-Class, to be launched early in the new year, has undergone several modifications including a new front and rear and energy efficient engines that reduce consumption by up to 31 percent compared to the predecessor model, according to the carmaker. Efficiency-enhancing measures include improved 7G-Tronic Plus automatic transmission and the ECO start/stop [...]
Apple’s Verizon iPhone is almost a lock for a launch this year, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Also, expect an iPhone 5, iPad 2 and iTunes streaming service in 2011. – A year ago at this time, the world was wondering whether
Verizon Wireless would launch Apple’s iPhone on its leading network.
Now, it’s not a matter of if–but when–as Piper Jaffray
analyst Gene Munster put the probability that Verizon would launch a CDMA
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The long delayed final launch of the space shuttle Discovery will move ahead as planned, despite evidence of new cracks. – The launch of the space shuttle Discovery remains on track for early
February, despite the need for additional repairs to the shuttle’s fuel tank,
according to NASA officials. The 26-year-old Discovery, which has been in orbit
38 times and is the senior citizen of the U.S.
space program, is to b…
