Archive for February, 2010

Digi to Sell IPhone in Malaysia, Taking on Maxis (Update3)

Digi.Com Bhd., the Malaysian mobile- phone company controlled by Norway’s Telenor ASA, signed an agreement to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Malaysia to tap growth in a market that it forecasts will surge 10-fold in five years.

Survey Finds Slack Editing on Magazine Web Sites

A survey conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review found that magazines’ Web sites reflect a trade-off of standards for online speed.


Condé Nast Is Preparing iPad Versions of Some of Its Top Magazines

The first products it will adapt for the digital reader will be Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour.


Electronics sets should stay with our kids

I remember when I was about eight or nine my dad popped out to the local toy shop and came back with an electronics kit. It was a series of electronic components mounted on a board, with springs for poking wires into. By linking wires up to the various springs you could form a number of different circuit configurations.

I was particularly impressed when we built a crystal radio set (a type of radio that draws power from the radio waves themselves) — it amazed me that we could tune-in to a radio station with no batteries. My dad also told me about the times he would do similar things when he was a child.

Mitsubishi Electric Aims to Triple Solar Production (Update2)

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., the Japanese maker of consumer electronics and assembly-line machinery, plans to almost triple production of solar cells in two years to meet demand for renewable energy.

Rupert Murdoch ready to sue Google?

A new profile of the News Corp. baron quotes a source who says he’s willing to press legal action against Google in the event that talks about indexing content fall through.

HP updates ultraportable with Core i5, i7 chips

Hewlett-Packard is updating its line of business ultraportable laptops with Intel’s latest chips.

eBay buyer pays $41,300 for Nintendo game

A man hears that a copy of Stadium Events sold for $13,000. So he rummages in his basement and finds an unopened copy of the same game.

Digi to Sell IPhone in Malaysia, Taking on Maxis (Update2)

Digi.Com Bhd., the Malaysian mobile- phone company controlled by Norway’s Telenor ASA, signed an agreement to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Malaysia to tap growth in a market that it forecasts will surge 10-fold in five years.

Mitsubishi Electric Aims to Triple Solar Production (Update1)

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., the Japanese maker of consumer electronics and assembly-line machinery, plans to almost triple production of solar cells in two years to meet demand for renewable energy.