Higher-than-expected sales of the iPhone 4S along with rumors of an all-metal body for the next iPhone has sent shares of Foxconn Technology Company to their highest level in more than five months on the Taipei stock exchange, BusinessWeek reports. Although the company makes nearly 50 percent of all the world's high-tech electronics, its fortunes are closely tied to the status of its best-known customer, Apple. The stock closed the day at NT$101.50 (approximately $3.44 US) a rise of about six percent.... Read more...
Briefly: Instant PDF 10 launched, reVOLT c2 now shipping
Instant PDF 10, an update to Enfocus' tool for creating high quality PDFs, has been released. Version 10 includes one of the most frequently requested features, annotated error reporting, as well as support for OS X Lion and Adobe CS 5.5 Read more...
Woman’s quest could mean Medal of Honor for dad (AP)
AP - It was bravery at the highest level: William Shemin defied German machine gun fire to sprint across a World War I battlefield and pull wounded comrades to safety. And he did so no fewer than three times. Read more...
Verizon: we shipped 4.2 million iPhones in fall
Verizon CFO Fran Shammo in remarks at a Citigroup media and telecoms conference revealed the highest-ever sales rate for iPhones on a US carrier. Read more...
Rumor: Apple MacBook Pro with 2880×1800 display for 2012
Digitimes is reporting that Appleís expected refresh, and possibly redesign, of its MacBook Pro line in 2012 will feature display resolutions up to 2880x1800 pixels. Currently, the highest resolution on the 15-inch MacBook Pro line is 1680x1050 pixels, while the 17-inch model tops out at 1920x1200 pixels Read more...
Nikon D800 spotted with 36-megapixel sensor, superior video
Nikon's upcoming D800 has been seen in the field for the first time through a new leak Saturday night. The full-frame camera should be smaller and lighter than the D700 but, as Nikon Rumors heard earlier, will have the highest-ever resolution for a Nikon DSLR. Read more...
Toshiba unveils the Thrive 7 – hands-on pics of the new 7-inch Android tablet (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - #dt-gallery-main-image img { float:right; max-width:400px; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 2px !important; } #dt-gallery-thumbs { float:left; width: 210px; } #dt-gallery-thumbs li { margin:7px !important; background:none !important; padding: 0 !important; float:left !important; } #dt-gallery-thumbs li img { border:1px solid #999; list-style:none; padding: 1px; } Toshiba has unveiled its second tablet: the Thrive 7. Joining the original 10.1-inch Thrive, the new 7-inch tablet looks identical to its older brother, and internally is pretty much is the same. It has the highest resolution we’ve seen in a 7-inch tablet yet, cramming an 1280×800 pixel screen (that’s the resolution 10.1-inch devices have) into its compact shell Read more...
Seagate GoFlex Desk hard drive hits 4TB (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Storage developer Seagate has added a new monster to its desktop hard drive offerings: a new edition of its GoFlex Desk external hard drive with a whopping 4 TB capacity. Seagate claims the 4 TB of storage is the highest in the industry, but the drive isn’t a behemoth: it actually sports a small desktop footprint and a new industrial design Seagate plans to migrate across its entire GoFlex Desk line in the coming weeks. The drive sports a USB 3.0 interface, and the company says a version with FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 will be available in Apple stores by the end of the month to keep Mac users happy. Read more...
Sprint raises early termination fee to $350 (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - We can’t say this news is a big surprise, but Sprint will be raising its early termination fee. On September 9 Sprint will be increasing its ETF to $350 for advanced devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and notebooks. This change will bring Sprint up to tie Verizon with the highest early termination fee, with AT&T right behind them at $315. Read more...
Report shows more US farmers relying on Internet (AP)
AP - Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tablets? Read more...
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