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Spotted in Indonesia: at least 63 people queuing for Nokia’s QWERTY-equipped C3 phone. Anyone would think Apple was handing out free iPhones!
According to Nokia Conversations, thousands waited to get their hands on the budget messenger phone, which launched officially in the country on Sunday. [Nokia Conversations and TheNokiaBlog via SlashGear]
In this week’s edition of “Steve Jobs Said What!?,” the CEO Maximum PC readers love to loathe told The Wall Street Journal PCs aren’t long for this world, while devices like tablets are the wave of the future.
“The transformation of the PC to new form factors like the tablet is going to make some people uneasy because the PC has taken us a long ways,” Jobs said in response to a question by The Wall Street Journal’s Steve Mossberg. “The PC is brilliant … and we like to talk about the post-PC era, but it’s uncomfortable.”
Jobs went on to say that “PCs are like trucks,” making a reference to a time when trucks used by farmers were more common than cars.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published a Digit on more ways that people can carry around their iPads, including a men’s suit with a built-in pocket for an iPad–only to be (quite vocally) informed by The Colbert Show’s Stephen Colbert that we neglected to give him proper credit for his contribution to men’s fashion.
Holding up a copy of last Friday’s Wall Street Journal on his show Thursday, Mr. Colbert referred to a front-page story about how iPad users were carrying their devices around, but commented on the blog piece, which was written as a follow up. His claim: that he had first appeared in an iPad-compatible suit.
For the record, this blog would now like to note that Mr. Colbert a
NEWS
Oracle has unveiled new versions of its Sun Ray Client and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software it runs on, the first time the products have been updated since the company acquired them in its purchase of Sun last year.
In January, Oracle pledged to continue Sun’s “desktop to datacentre virtualisation strategy”. The new Sun Ray 3 Plus Client device and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.1.1 update to its connection broker software, introduced on Wednesday, demonstrates its commitment to that pledge, the company said. Oracle’s desktop virtualisation products, inherited from Sun, include VDI, Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray and VM VirtualBox.