Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Law Firm Considering iPod Battery Class Action Suit (MacCentral) MacCentral - Even though Apple now offers battery replacements for out-of-warranty iPods as part of its AppleCare service, it's an issue that refuses to go away. Now it appears that a San Francisco, Calif.-based law firm is getting into the act.  [Yahoo! News - Technology] 4:57:06 PM    comment []

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Xdrive Launches Video-Sharing Service Xdrive is and excellent tool - one that I began using back in 2000 - at the top of the "dot.com" boom - while I was a Product Manager for Compaq's SMB Product Line.   Back then they offered free service for limited online storage - and captured revenue by charging for storage amount upgrades.      The online storage company is trying to do for video what Shutterfly and Ofoto have done for photos--letting people share the memories. Nowadays, though, it charges for storage.  [CNET News.com - Front Door] 4:05:33 PM    comment []

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Web Addresses Get Nip And Tuck A gaggle of Web sites have set upon the idea of shortening cumbersome URLs. But the free service also includes spam.  [CNET News.com - Front Door] 12:23:36 PM    comment []

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Mobile Battery Problems Explode Experts ponder alternatives to batteries that have caused fire in notebooks, cell phones. (PCWorld) 9:42:15 AM    comment []

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Gartner Predictions On Notebook Battery Technology In 2004 - What About Valence And MTI MicroFuel Cells? Based on Gartner's predictions (see extract below) - 2004 could provide a great opportunity for companies such as Valence Technologies  (Saphion Technology) and MTI MicroFuelCells (Direct Methanol Fuel Cells) to utilize their technologies to either: Increase Notebook Available Power At Current Weight/Form Factor Maintain Notebook Available Power At Decreased Weight/Smaller Form Factor Gartner Prediction: Despite battery efficiency and power management advances, the average notebook PC battery run time will not increase over the next three years.   Gartner Strategic Planning Assumption: Through 2008, average run time for a single notebook PC battery will not exceed five hours (0.8 probability). 9:20:30 AM    comment []

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Toshiba Spinning Off PC Operations Toshiba is to spin off its lossmaking PC operations into a standalone (but still inhouse) company.  [The Register] 8:49:16 AM    comment []

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Tech IPOs Will Be Back with a Vengeance in 2004 (Reuters) It appears the tech sector is recovering - based on the economy, semiconductor orders, and last but not least - the number of recruiters on the phone again. Reuters - Investors, brace yourselves -- 2004 is gearing up to be the year of the technology IPO.  [Yahoo! News - Technology] 8:42:48 AM    comment []

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