Apple devices turn to grief instruments
He was a conjurer, a modern magician, who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives, says the Associated Press.
As people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve Jobs, the feeling was more than grief for an executive or even an inventor. It was something closer to awe for a wizard.
Yesterday, the admirers who turned his technological marvels into everyday tools used them as instruments of grief. People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, booted up their MacBook Pros to watch old Jobs presentations on YouTube, and used their iPhones to sift through remembrances on Twitter.
Sony mulls Ericsson buyout
Sony has reportedly considered a plan in which the company would buy out Ericsson's shares in their mobile business, reveals V3.co.uk.
The Wall Street Journal cited sources familiar with the matter in reporting that the Japanese electronics giant was looking to acquire the outstanding 50% share in the Sony Ericsson mobile handset business.
The companies formed the joint venture in 2001. More recently, however, Sony Ericsson has seen its sales fall short of expectations.
Kindle Fire sells at brisk pace
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet continues to sell at a brisk pace, though it remains to be seen whether the gadget will match the torrid pace that Apple's iPad set, writes Cnet.
In the six days after the first day of pre-order sales, the Kindle Fire has been selling at a rate of about 20 000 units a day, according to eDataSource, a market research firm.
This follows an eDataSource report on Monday that said Amazon sold an estimated 95 000 Kindle Fires on the first day of pre-ordering. The Kindle Fire was rolled out on 28 September, and Amazon began taking pre-orders the same day.
Magazine reports 'Bill Gates dead'
French weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur attracted unwanted attention yesterday, when it mistakenly announced the death of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, according to Relaxnews.
The mistake appeared at the top of an article on the publication's Web site recounting tributes to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died on 5 October. Although the content of the article correctly referenced tributes to Jobs, the headlines read “Bill Gates dead”.
The article has since been amended, but eagle-eyed Twitter users picked up on the mistake and quickly made “Bill Gates dead” a trending topic throughout France.
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