Apple to recall iPhone 4?

A story that appeared in the online edition of the U.K. newspaper Daily Mail said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs might have no choice but to recall the iPhone 4, the latest edition of the Cupertino company's smart phone. Apparently, consumer concern about the diminishing radio signal quality of the handset, and the uncharacteristic mishandling of initial customer complaints by Jobs and company might have painted the normally cool company into a corner.

Seven Windows 7 per second

Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in one of his recent posts, disclosed that his employer has sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses. And while Apple made some noise with its iPhone 4 and iPad sales announcements, including selling 3 iPads per second, Microsoft clearly stole some thunder with its "seven Windows 7 per second" announcement.

Another alien has landed!

(Alienware M11x)

I had a chance to get up close and personal with the Alienware M11x notebook from Dell when the computer company opened its latest Metro Manila outlet last week.

Nokia fights for smart-phone turf with the N8

(Nokia's N8 smart phone)

Nokia has got news for all smart-phone enthusiasts out there. The Finnish mobile phone vendor wishes to remind you all, it is the number 1, numero uno, the big boss, in the smart-phone arena. And Nokia might have a soft voice right now, it is nevertheless holding a very big stick -- the N8.

Cherry Mobile's Eclipse smart phone

(Cherry Mobile Eclipse)

Local mobile phone company Cherry Mobile is raring to enter the smart phone market by launching its MS Windows Mobile-powered Cherry Mobile Eclipse.

Acer makes presentations highly mobile

(Acer K11)

Acer recently introduced its K11 portable projector (see picture above). Weighing a mere 0.61 kilogram, the K11 comes with 200 ANSI lumens of brightness, making sure that despite its puny size it offers users and audiences well-defined images and presentations.

Jobs has something against bloggers?

Please feel free to kick my behind if I was guilty of taking Apple CEO Steve Jobs' declaration, "I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers," out of context. If I did, maybe because it was not the hardest thing to do. Anyway, here is a link to Jobs' interview with the Wall Street Journal.

Windows MIA in the tablet PC wars?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can say whatever he wants about the tablet computer market's future, but all signs indicate that Windows most likely would never be a significant factor, at least for the very near future. Most industry observers concur that Windows does not figure much in the tablet PC scene.

It must be a rather painful and embarrassing situation to be in. Imagine, everybody is talking about the future of computing and nobody is saying anything about Microsoft and its flagship platform, Windows. Hey, even PC vendors who have had long history with Windows are turning out tablet PCs running on Android, Google's mobile operating system.

Many tablet PCs to battle with the iPad

Apple said it has sold more than two million iPad tablet PCs as of May 31. This has prompted some industry analysts to predict that the Cupertino company will sell at least 10 million iPads before the year ends. Watching IT could find no strong reasons to disagree with these market observers.

A pair of tablet PCs from Asus

(Eee Pad)

While Taiwanese IT vendor ASUS (http://www.asus.com/) claims its pro-cloud computing philosophy has prompted it to come up with the Eee Pad and Eee Tablet slate computers, I cannot help but see something of a poetic justice at work. Please humor me by recalling with me that Steve Jobs and company have berated the netbook on several occasions.