February 25, 2010
Acer tables e-reader plans, says market is ‘not that big’
Engadget
Vladislav Savov writes that Acer won’t be bringing an e-reader product to the Americas, after all.
“The Taipei Times is reporting this morning Acer chairman Wang Jeng-tang’s announcement that his company will not be releasing an ebook reader ‘for now.’ It was only a month ago that Jeng-tang and his crew were telling the world about the aggressive inroads they were going to make into the Amazon-dominated e-reader market, but it appears some second-guessing has been taking place in those Taipei boardrooms, which has led to the scrapping of the earlier plans.”
Juniper Networks Establishes $50 Million Venture Fund
TechCrunch
Robin Wauters writes about Juniper Networks’ new Junos Innovation Fund.
Tech giant Juniper Networks this morning introduced the $50 million Junos Innovation Fund, a new corporate venture capital initiative that will invest primarily in VC-backed technology companies in early or growth stage. The fund builds up on Juniper’s efforts to establish an ecosystem of technologies, software and applications built on its cross-network software platform Junos , the company said. According to the press release , the Junos Innovation Fund will invest in companies over the next two years, and focus on areas such as networking technologies, applications, and services that foster the development and deployment of security infrastructure, mobility and video solutions, virtualization, network automation, optical technology, and green networking.
HP Experiments with Google Android Netbook
The VAR Guy
Dave Courbanou writes about a new Google Android-based netbook from HP.
“Hewlett-Packard is launching a Google Android-based netbook. Shipping under the Compaq brand, HP calls it the AirLife 100. It will debut in the United Arab Emirates (no word on a U.S. launch). The big question: Is Android for netbooks a good computing solution? ITP.net scooped the story, noting that this isn’t the first netbook to be officially launching with Android. A Chinese company beat HP to that honor. Still, it is the first ‘mainstream’ netbook to feature Google’s quirky OS. The idea is that it’s going to be a ‘new way of connecting to the essentials of online life’ at least, according to HP.”
