Electronic World

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Honey, I shrunk the gadgets...

Live Night & Day
19 Aug 2007

£50, uk.europe.creative.com Dimensions55 x 35 x 12mm The latest challenger to the iPod Shuffle has a lot going for it. True, it’s bigger than its tiny Apple rival, it’s not as stylish, and the battery life is a little less (91/ hours). But on the plus... read more...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Murdoch gets set to tear down the pay wall (The Business, 18 Aug 2007, Page 17)

Murdoch gets set to tear down the pay wall
JAMES FORSYTH
The Business
18 Aug 2007

RUPERT Murdoch’s takeover of the Wall Street Journal could change the business model for web journalism forever. WSJ.com, the Journal’s news site, is that rarest of things: a successful paid-for, subscriptions-driven website. With 900,000 subscribers,... read more...

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A big man on a Chinese campus (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 13 Aug 2007, Page 12)

A big man on a Chinese campus
By Jason Dean in Shenzhen, China —Sue Feng in Beijing and Christopher Lawton in San Francisco contributed to this article.
The Wall Street Journal Europe
13 Aug 2007

AST A GUARDED GATE on the outskirts of this city sits one of the world’s largest factories. In dozens of squat buildings, it churns out gadgets bearing technology’s household names— Apple Inc.’s iPods and iPhones, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s personal... read more...