Foxconn To Manufacture Apple’s Upcoming Tablet

Digitimes is reporting that Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will be manufacturing partner for upcoming tablet PC from Apple. Apple will start shipping the device in first quarter of 2010 and they initially expect to ship around 300,000 to 400,000 units per month.
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Sony Introduces Near 4K Resolution 56-inch Monitor

Sony is showcasing its new 56-inch TRIMASTER SRM-L560 monitor at CEATEC in Japan. The monitor is capable of near 4K resolution, 3840 x 2160 to be exact. It has LED backlight with RGB sensor and internal temperature sensor to detect and compensate for uneven brightness. Resulting in 176-degree viewing angle and 100 percent color accurate.
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Microsoft Research Shows Multitouch Mouse Prototypes

With rumors going around that Apple will introduce new Mighty Mouse with multitouch detection technology, Microsoft today jumped the gun and showcased incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes developed by their research department. However, the five mice shown are still in early prototype and there is now information if any will come to the market.
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Intel’s New Core i7 Processors Maintain Performance Lead Over AMD

Extreme Tech has posted benchmarks for the newest processors from AMD and Intel. The website compared 2.93GHz Core i7-870 (Lynnfield) with 3.4GHz AMD Phenom II X4 965. Extreme Tech also compared performance of new 2.0GHz Core i7-920 mobile processor (codenamed Clarksfield) with the above two processors.
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Palm Re-Enables iTunes Support with webOS 1.2.1 Update

Over the weekend, Palm released webOS update 1.2.1 that brought back iTunes 9 support along with photo albums synchronization via iTunes. The Media sync feature will now allow for synchronizing photos without requiring the full-resolution originals. Palm also resolved the Exchange 2007 issue that stopped syncing of Exchange account in webOS 1.2.0 update.
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Apple Planning to Update Mighty Mouse and Bluetooth Keyboard

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple will release a new mouse as early as this year along with the new iMacs. Apple will remove the problematic mechanical roller ball, and make the mouse mightier by expanding touch sensitive housing and using multipoint touch detection technologies found on the MacBook lineup. The new mouse will also drop the white plastic finish and come in aluminum finish to fit with Apple’s current desktop and notebook lineup.
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Microsoft Developing Multi-Core OS Codenamed “Barrelfish"

Number of cores on a CPU is on a rise and companies like IBM and Intel are already talking about hundreds of cores on a single CPU within next 5 years. With increase in number of cores the problem of data management between cores also increases exponentially. To combat this problem Microsoft and ETH Zurich are developing a new OS codenamed “Barrelfish” that uses message passing and a database like system to pass information between cores.
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