Best Buy offering pre-orders for Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X for $149.99 and $99.99 under contract (Update: Lumia 920 no longer listed)
By Sean Buckley posted Oct 21st 2012 1:15PM Nokia and HTC’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 flagships are still on the standard release path: announcement, federal approval and now, pre-order. Keeping device availability tucked firmly under its hat, Best Buy is now offering Nokia’s Lumia 920 and the HTC 8X for pre-sale, priced at $149.99 and $99.99, respectively. Early buyers have options, too: the Lumia 920 is kitted out in red,...
Apple Introduces All-New MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Apple today unveiled an all-new 15-inch MacBook Pro, featuring a stunning Retina display with over 5 million pixels, all-flash storage architecture, and quad-core processors in a radically thin and light design. Measuring a mere 0.71 inch high and weighing only 4.46 pounds, the completely redesigned MacBook Pro is the lightest MacBook Pro ever and nearly as thin as a MacBook Air. The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is...
Autonomous cars will arrive within 10 years, Intel CTO says
BARCELONA — Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicts that driverless cars will be available within 10 years and that buyers by then will increasingly be more interested in a vehicle’s internal technology than the quality of its engine. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is looking to equip autonomous smart cars with low-wattage Intel Atom chips, as well as higher-powered Core processors. “I think in the past the...
Dish Network settles Voom HD lawsuit, AMC comes back on the air tonight
By Richard Lawler posted Oct 21st 2012 4:21PM Dish Network customers have been without AMC and its family of channels since July 1st, but thanks to a settlement between the satellite company and Cablevision’s former Voom HD unit, AMC will be back on the air starting tonight. The possibility of a settlement leaked out late last week via a court filing, and it looks like Dish CEO Charlie Ergen will avoid taking the stand Monday...
HP offers new low-cost SaaS service desk
There is no question that vendors that don’t offer software-as-a-service (SaaS) products are risking market share. It’s been true in almost every market, where disruptive companies such as Salesforce in customer relationship management (CRM) or Workday in HR have clearly succeeded. This trend holds true in the help desk or service desk area, where cloud-based offerings are now essential. And that is why HP, which has a...
