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Facebook IPO is official: $38 per share, on sale tomorrow under ticker symbol ‘FB’

Posted on May 17, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

We largely steer clear of companies going public here at Engadget, but Facebook and its zillions of users warrants an atypical tip of the hat. The outfit has announced that starting tomorrow, 421,233,615 shares of its common stock will be up for grabs at a price to the public of $38 per share. It’ll trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “FB,” with the outfit offering 180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. Closing of the offering is expected to occur on May 22nd, subject to “customary closing conditions.” And with that, we’d like to congratulate a plethora of new billionaires on..

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LaCie’s new 100MB/s NAS is 2big, resists that second scone (video)

Posted on May 16, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Gallic storage outfit LaCie is nonchalantly unveiling its 2big double-bay NAS that’s purportedly capable of pumping data around your network at 100MB/s. Designed for small businesses, it’ll remind any passers by of HAL or GLaDOS , depending on their age.

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Bridgestone reveals plan to withdraw from e-paper business, AeroBee loses its buzz

Posted on May 15, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

If you were intrigued by those 21-inch e-paper tablets Bridgestone showcased last year, you’re sure to be bummed by this news. The company has announced that plans to withdraw from the electronic paper business and expects to bring production to a screeching halt by the end of October. Citing increased competition and rapid declines in material prices for the move, the outfit looks “to put an increased focus on its core businesses.” As you may recall, Bridgestone had partnered with Delta Electronics to develop the business-focused AeroBee tablets and it remains to be seen if the latter part of the duo will continue its e-paper exploits with a new mate

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Canon ditching humans, cameras hand-made by robots by 2015

Posted on May 14, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Canon has announced that it’ll ditch human production line employees and rely entirely on robots to build its cameras. Several Japanese companies have felt the pinch thanks to the soaring value of the yen and have acted quickly to move production overseas, but Canon has resisted doing the same. Company spokesperson Jan Misumi has said that the move won’t cause job losses as those employees will be moved into other parts of the organization once the switchover has been completed — which could be as early as 2015. Now we just need to check our diaries as to when the Robopocalypse is due to begin. Canon ditching humans, cameras hand-made by robots by 2015 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 14:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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WSJ: LightSquared ‘preparing’ for bankruptcy protection filing, final decision coming tomorrow

Posted on May 13, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Can’t say it’s striking us as any sort of surprise, but the seemingly destined-to-fail LightSquared just might be out of options. After getting a high-five from Sprint and plenty of attention for its initiatives in bringing yet another wireless option to America, those blasted GPS interference issues (or ” supposed ” issues, depending on who you ask) eventually became too much to overcome.

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HP’s most popular laptop screen sizes: 15-inch in the US, 14-inch in China

Posted on May 9, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Here’s another interesting tidbit from today’s HP event in Shanghai : according to Kevin Frost, Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Notebooks Business Unit, 15-inch is currently the most popular laptop screen size in the US, while the folks in China prefer 14-inch offerings. Oddly enough, Kevin wasn’t keen on explaining this phenomenon, but he added that 17-inch laptops also do well in Europe and the US, but not in China.

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HP refreshes its ProBook laptops for small businesses

Posted on May 9, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

HP’s already outed a bunch of business laptops today, but so far they’ve all been at the enterprise level, the sort of thing an IT manager would deploy on the order of thousands. But while it was at it the company also refreshed its ProBook lineup for small businesses — the sort of operations that likely don’t have an IT department running the show. For those folks, there’s the refreshed b- and s-series. Starting with the “b” lineup, it includes 14- and 15.6-inch models (the 6470b and 6570b), which have a magnesium-reinforced chassis with a coating designed to resist scratches and other signs of wear. Users can choose between integrated and discrete graphics, while the 14-inch version, at least, will be offered with Intel and AMD chips. (The 15-incher is Intel-only.) Other perks include Intel’s vPro management technology, HP 3D DriveGuard and optional 3G / 4G connectivity

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HP intros three Compaq desktops, two displays for the business set

Posted on May 9, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

In addition to all the laptops and printers HP announced today, it also has a few goodies for the cube monkeys out there. The company just outed a trio of three business-grade desktops, along with two monitors. First up, there’s the Compaq Elite 8300, which is aimed squarely at large businesses with IT-friendly tools like TPM, Intel’s vPro technology and remote management via LANdesk. The Compaq Pro 4300, meanwhile, targets small businesses with its compact form factor and features like HP’s Chassis Security Kit. The mid-size Compaq Pro 6300 aims to please both groups, with TPM protection, HP’s BIOS solutions and the same 15-month life cycle program offered on the higher-end Elite 8300

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Xamarin’s XobotOS opens prospect of Android port to C#, can of worms

Posted on May 4, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Would it be ironic if Android developers did an end-run around Microsoft patents by using Microsoft’s own C#? Or if Google kiboshed its Oracle brouhaha with the aid of none other than Redmond? We’re asking because Xamarin, the wacky open source implementer of .NET, has ported Android to Microsoft’s C# with its XobotOS project. Although just an experiment and unlikely to solve Google’s issues , the team showed that running the robot on C# instead of Java gave fewer coding limitations, better battery life and direct graphics access. Additionally, Xamarin reports “massive” speed gains on its HTC Flyer and Acer Iconia when running the side-project port — no surprise given C#’s machine heritage

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Ask Engadget: best ‘money is no object’ laptop?

Posted on April 29, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Chris, who simply has too much money to blow on a super-laptop. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com . “I sold my business and I want to replace my laptop [HP Pavilion G6] with a completely unreasonably expensive top of the line machine. I want it to do everything I do (gaming, coding, web design) all at the same time

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Hot Sales for Amazon and Samsung

Posted on April 27, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Morning Business Memo: Move over Apple. You’re not the only game in town. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has become the world’s largest manufacturer of smartphones, with soaring sales of mobile devices based on Google’s Android software. The Galaxy Note and Galaxy S2 were hot sellers….

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Sprint Direct Connect brandishes passport, brings push-to-talk to distant shores

Posted on April 26, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Although Sprint is winding down iDEN services here in the US, it hasn’t turned its back on the technology completely. The nation’s third largest wireless carrier has announced a new push-to-talk service offering, dubbed International Direct Connect. The $10 monthly add-on will allow Direct Connect push-to-talk users in the US — utilizing its CDMA network — to communicate with iDEN PTT users in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru free of charge

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