Amazon in a rare evening launch revealed its third-generation Kindle reader. The new hardware is 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter than the model it replaces but is better in nearly every way. It uses a new E Ink Pearl display with 50 percent better contrast and 20 percent faster page turns but can now last for up to a month with wireless off on battery, twice as much as before, and for up to 10 days with wireless on.

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Apple Inc. reported strong fiscal third quarter revenue and profits on a lift from strong demand for the company's third-generation iPhones and continuing improvement in application sales at the App Store.

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AMD is working with Intel, Nvidia and others on OpenCL, a standard for parallel C programming on x86 and graphics chips based on work from Apple Inc. OpenCL could be ratified by Khronos, a graphics industry standards group, as early as December and be supported in software products early next year.

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It's new, it's improved, it's internet TV!

Internet TV "is a superb idea and it's going to be the future of television," said Steve Perlman, founder of WebTV Networks, one of the field's pioneers, who now runs Rearden LLC (San Francisco), which incubates consumer startups. "It's just a question of when and how it's implemented."

Proponents of the High Definition Multimedia Interface say they believe the industry will be able to deliver stereoscopic 3-D televisions eventually, and that the HDMI interface is ready to go for first-generation 3DTVs.

Source: eetimes.com

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Even though the AppleTV is a dismal failure, and DirectTV and ATSC are delivering more HD content every day than iTunes has since it's launch, iTunes has "won" the HD content distribution battle. Yes, folks, this is the reality distortion field at it's finest.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was recently interviewed by CNBC's Jim Goldman and he had a few bold statements to make. For one he called rival Microsoft's Zune media player a "failure" as well as proclaiming that although Blu-ray may have won the format war over HD DVD it had most likely lost the HD content distribution battle.

Well, I agree the Zune is a failure.

Source: Betanews

SAN FRANCISO—High-definition television (HDTV) unit shipments are projected to grow from 97.1 million in 2007 to 241.2 million by 2012, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20 percent, according to a forecast from market research firm iSuppli Corp.

Source: EETimes

Steve Jobs was also recently quoted as saying the Blu-Ray licensing was a "bag of hurt". To paraphrase, it means that the licensing terms for Blu-Ray are just as or more expensive than similiar IP offerings from Apple.

The technology is here, and Apple retail is sharper than your average couture boutique. Could an Apple dress be in the works? You heard it here first.

The Lumalive group at Philips Research is exploring the intersection between the company's LED business and the emerging market for wearable electronics. The group got its start when some early prototypes shown at the 2005 IFA conference in Berlin snagged interest.

Source: EE Times

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