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There is still a little time left, but it doesn’t look like Apple iPhone users will see Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems get Flash and Java up and running on Apple’s handheld device by Christmas.
Although both Sun and Adobe have expressed a desire to back the iPhone for nearly a year, neither the Flash Player nor Java Virtual Machine run on the device. And it appears that little to no progress is being made. Sun and Adobe, the chief proponents of the Java and Flash platforms, respectively, repeat what they’ve said all year: that they are still working to get their software platforms running on the trendy phone. Apple, for its part, did not respond to numerous inquiries about the iPhone from InfoWorld.
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As technology companies make their annual trek to Las Vegas to unveil their coolest gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, investors are laying bets on another good year for the industry.
The mood at CES 2010 should be far more buoyant than in early 2009, when the economy was deep in recession and financial markets reeled from the credit crisis.
Tech stocks have since recovered, with the Nasdaq Composite Index ending 2009 up more than 40 percent, near a 15-month high. Analysts say stronger corporate IT spending, an explosion of activity around smartphones and mobile computing, plus consolidation, should further bolster the sector in 2010.
Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall predicted a climb of roughly 15 percent in the Nasdaq in 2010, noting that some of the good news was already factored in to stock valuations.
“It’s going to be tough to find areas that won’t do well next year,” Marshall said.
Topping the list for many sell-side analysts are perennial blue-chip favorites like Google Inc, Apple Inc, Cisco Systems Inc and Intel Corp .
But with economic recovery slowly taking root and companies starting to upgrade their IT systems again, analysts say 2010 will offer tech investors a wide range of opportunities.
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South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has closed an antitrust investigation of the flash memory industry, concluding that there is no evidence of a pricing cartel.
The investigation had targeted four major international manufacturers of flash memory, two of them in Korea, one in Japan and one in the U.S., Korea’s FTC said. While it didn’t name the companies it investigated, it noted that the world’s largest manufacturers of the chips are Samsung Electronics and Hynix in South Korea, Toshiba in Japan and SanDisk in the U.S.
The FTC found no evidence of price fixing at the international level, and limited evidence of domestic price fixing, it said in a statement released Wednesday.
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Once in a blue moon, as the saying goes, there are two full moons in a single calendar month, which NASA says happens every 2.5 years. A blue moon on New Year’s Eve is much rarer, last happening in 1990. Even rarer, though, is the partial lunar eclipse that will accompany the blue moon.
Not only is the decade going to end on a blue moon—the second appearance of a full moon in a calendar month—but also a partial eclipse of the moon, at least for sky watchers in Europe, Africa and Asia. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is partially darkened by the Earth’s shadow. Most months, of course, have only one full moon, but the 29.5-day lunar cycle occasionally forces a second full moon into the 28-to-31-day length of calendar months. The last time a blue moon occurred on New Year’s Eve was in 1990. In fact, blue moons are not all that rare. On average there will be one blue moon every 2.5 years. What is rare is a partial lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve: It didn’t happen at all in the 20th century and the phenomenon will not occur on New Year’s Eve again until 2028. The partial eclipse will be visible throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Brazil and Australia. Some parts of Canada and the United States will also get to see a glimpse of this eclipse, but overcast skies are expected over most the United States. As for the origin of the term blue moon, according to a NASA statement Dec. 29, the modern definition came about back in the 1940s when “the Farmer’s Almanac of Maine offered a definition of blue moon so convoluted that even professional astronomers struggled to understand it. It involved factors such as the ecclesiastical dates of Easter and Lent, and the timing of seasons according to the dynamical mean sun. Aiming to explain blue moons to the layman, Sky & Telescope published an article in 1946 entitled ‘Once in a Blue Moon,’” which laid the basis for the modern definition. |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 (UPI) — A federal appellate court ruled that U.S. technology giant Apple’s diminutive music maker the iPod was not “unsafe or defective.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District in California upheld a 2008 lower court ruling that the volume allowed on an iPod, above 115 decibels was “unavoidable,” and not unsafe, ComputerWorld reported Thursday.
Plaintiffs had sought class-action status in a suit that claimed the iPod put users at a high risk for hearing loss.
Federal Judge David Thomas wrote, “the district court did not err.”
“The plaintiffs admit that the iPod has an ordinary purpose of listening to music, and nothing they allege suggests iPods are unsafe for that use or defective,” Thomas wrote.
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US telecoms giant AT&T announced Thursday that it was dropping its sponsorship deal with disgraced golfing star Tiger Woods who has been embroiled in a sensational sex scandal.
“We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future,” the company said in a statement.
It was the latest blow for Woods since he crashed his car into a tree and fire hydrant in the early hours of November 27, unleashing a storm of revelations about his personal life.
The crash came just days after a US tabloid had reported that he was having an affair and thrust Woods and his wife, Elin, and two young children into the center of a media storm.
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Information technology continues to be one of the leading industries for new hires in the coming year, show reports from CareerBuilder and ExecuNet. Yet, the winners in the first part of 2010 continue to be those who already have jobs.
More than a third of information technology employers will be hiring full time employees in 2010, according to CareerBuilder. The job board’s recent report surveyed 2,720 hiring managers and human resource professionals in November 2009. Full-time employee headcount increases are expected for 20 percent of respondents across all industries. Other industries that will see hiring include manufacturing, financial services, professional services, health care, transportation and retail.
Existing employees, however, continue to be the winners by keeping their jobs and receiving salary increases in 2010. More than 60 percent of all employers polled are keeping headcount levels steady, while only 9 percent plan to make some cuts in the new year. Fifty-seven percent of employers will be increasing salaries in 2010 with 63 percent increasing existing employee salaries by 3 percent, yet only 11 percent will increase by 5 percent or more.
The signs for positive recovery in 2010 employment are there, says CareerBuilder, but caution remains in the air.
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If you’re shopping for a smartphone, now is the time to look for price cuts and buy-one-get-one offers, according to consulting firm NPD Group.
The average price for smartphones dropped 3 percent in the third quarter of this year — the latest data available — because of special price reductions and offers, NPD Group reports. In all, the average price is down nearly 17 percent from a year ago, to $177.
The price reductions helped push the BlackBerry Curve, the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 3G to the top of the sales rankings for mobile phones during the quarter, the report said.
The next best sellers are RIM’s BlackBerry Tour and BlackBerry Storm.
The popularity and competitiveness of smartphones is partly because of their increased availability.
“There was only one Android device available in the final quarter of 2008. “Now there are eight available from three major carriers,” said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y.
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Despite iPods, genetic sequencing, the Internet and Twitter, nearly a third of Americans said they thought there would be more technological advances by the year 2010.
Not everyone expected to be living like The Jetsons, the space age television cartoon series of the early 1960s, but the Zogby International survey of more than 3,000 adults in the United States showed many were less than enthusiastic about how far we have come by the dawn of a new decade.
“The age group most likely to be disappointed with the current level of technological advancement are 35 to 54-year-olds (36 percent),” Zogby, which conducted the survey commissioned by the website ScoopDaily, said in a statement.
About 21 percent of people believe we are more technologically advanced than they thought we would be by 2010, while 37 percent believed we are on target for their expectations.
About a third of people 70 years and older said they thought current technology was more advanced than they thought it would be.
“First Globals, those age 18-30, are much less likely than older generations to say the technological advancements up until now have exceeded their expectations,” Zogby added.
Not surprisingly, men were more likely than women to say they thought there would have been greater advances by 2010 to the Jetson lifestyle with its flying saucer-like cars and robotic servants,
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