The original “bondi blue” iMac was the first computer to offer USB ports without offering “legacy” ports. That’s right — no serial ports, no ADB. The result was a flood of USB devices in white-and-blue plastic. This was a crucial turning point that created a reason to prefer USB to non-USB ports. Learn the history […]
Infoworld’s Tech Watch is covering the Bluetooth iPod watch: I met with Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG and asked him if he heard anything about enabling iPod with Bluetooth so that you can use a Bluetooth wireless stereo headset. Foley said everyone is waiting for it but he’s heard nothing from Apple. […]
Nokia’s, the world’s top mobile phone manufacturer, announced new 4G mobile phones with built-in hard drives that will challenge Apple and Canon. Nokia unveiled new premium phones on April 27, 2005 that included one with an MP3 music player, the N91 (L), that it said will outsell Apple’s iPod and a camera phone, the N90, […]
Several sources are reporting that Fujitsu is preparing a 200GB (2.5-inch) notebook drive. The new mobile hard drive will feature perpendicular recording technology according to IDG News. Perpendicular recording is a method of storing information using magnetic fields to represent each bit. In disks that are commercially available today, the bits, or magnetic fields, lay […]
Paul Thurrott’s WinHEC 2005: Day Three Blog got slapped by Microsoft for posting screen shots of Microsoft’s beta Longhorn OS. It almost seems like Microsoft is taking some cues from Apple. (the comment at 1:07pm is what most caught my eye).