Notion Ink explains OMAP over Tegra decision for the Adam II



While which chip ends up in a particular device will significantly affect its performance and access to future upgrades, it’s not often that we get to peek behind the curtain and find out why those decisions were made. A post on Notion Ink’s new Adam …

Switched On: You Tell Me It’s The Institution



Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Apple rose to dominate sales of digital music by more or less mirroring the way consumers acquired music in the physical world — that is, purchasing songs, but providing…

NEC will cut 10,000 jobs after forecasting $1.3 billion annual loss, mostly in mobile phone biz



After releasing a revised financial forecast for FY 2011 that predicts an annual $1.3 billion loss, its third in the last four years, NEC announced it will cut around 10,000 jobs. Bloomberg Businessweek reports President Nobuhiro Endo announced the cu…

Nokia clarifies battery update on Lumia 800, promises audio / camera fixes soon



Nokia already came clean about the Lumia 800 battery bug, but evidently that just wasn’t enough to appease the masses. A community manager in the outfit’s own forums has just responded to pages upon pages of comments regarding the most recent update, p…

App Week: MSN UK for iPad, new Star Wars app for Android



In this week's round-up of the biggest app news, MSN UK has outed an iPad app, while Android owners will be able to transform themselves into a Sith Lord