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Friday 13 April 2012

Apple Readying 'Revolutionary' New Product For Launch [ 13-04-2012 12:35 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Le Figaro Translation by:

Apple is preparing to launch a major new product within eight months. That's the claim from famed French designer Philippe Starck who says that he has been working with Apple on the project. The revelation came during an interview on French television:

Indeed, there is a big project together which will be out in eight months.

Starck summed up the project by saying that it would be "... quite revolutionary ...". So what could it be? Well the most obvious choice, and the one that immediately springs to most minds, is the much ballyhooed Apple TV set that was alluded to in the recent Steve Jobs biography. In fact Starck claims that he had been personally coordinating with the late Steve Jobs on the mystery project:

For seven years I came to see him once a month in Palo Alto and elsewhere.

Starck, for those of you who aren't familiar with his work, has designed all manner of things from chairs, to hotels, to toothbrushes to lamps. The thing is his style is ... well his style ... it's not exactly Apple. What exactly he has managed to dream up or indeed what his input on the project has been and how well it has worked alongside the likes of Sir Jony Ive is going to be very interesting to see indeed.

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Nokia CEO: Multi-Core Chips? Bah Humbug! [ 13-04-2012 12:15 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: ITProPortal Translation by: Paul Smith

Did you kow that Windows Phone doesn't support multi-core chipsets? Well if not you do now. Armed with this knowledge would you like to hazard a guess at Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's opinion of multi-core chipsets? Let's see if you guessed right by looking at what Elop told Chinese newspaper Yangcheng Evening News ina recent interview:

... the so-called dual-core, quad-core mobile phones can only waste batteries, but not be useful for consumers all the time.

Surprising eh? Microsoft themselves have been trying to focus on the 'real world' performance of handsets running its platform with their 'Smoked by Windows Phone' challenge. Keeping in that vein Elop carried on by claiming that Nokia's Lumia 900, the company's flagship device, has yet to be defeated by the likes of the iPhone or an Android handset even though these devices feature dual-core and quad-core chip setups.

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EX RIM CEO Quit After Rescue Plan Was Shot Down [ 13-04-2012 11:20 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Reuters Translation by: Paul Smith

RIM has been the 'sick man' of the mobile industry for some time now. Lacklustre handsets, corporate intransigence, a failure to respond quickly to rivals and general complacency have led to the once darling of the industry flindering around like a fish out of water. To try and rectify the situation RIM's former Co-CEO Jim Basillie came up with a daring plan. Unfortunately for Balsillie the plan was so daring that it got shot down and he resigned. What was this plan then? Reuters explains:

Basillie hoped to allow major wireless companies in North America and Europe to provide service for non-BlackBerry devices routed through RIM's proprietary network ... [it] would have let carriers use the RIM network to offer inexpensive data plans, limited to social media and instant messaging, to entice low-tier customers to upgrade from no-frills phones to smartphones.

In other words RIM would have to worry less about its own devices, which, let's face it, are pretty much considered dull as dishwater by customers at the moment. RIM's network on the other hand would be pressed into service to support services like BBM on iOS and Android devices. RIM would have had a foot in the door to those other platforms and indeed this is pretty much the sort of advice RIM was getting from industry analysts.

Instead RIM went down another path. Instead of trying to re-align themselves to focus on services they have continued trying to make a success of their hardware despite all signs pointing to customers simply not being interested. BlackBerry 10 and its associated devices has to be a major success for RIM because the company has all but bet their future on it. If it isn't can RIM buy itself enough time to try again?

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