Pegatron Technology expects its Apple CDMA iPhone shipments to reach 10 million units in 2011 and the company has recently started to gear up and is installing new equipment as well as hiring about 10,000 new employees at its plant in Shanghai, China, reports “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20101027PD216.html), quoting “sources from component makers.”
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Hard Candy Cases (http://www.hardcandycases.com) has debuted a multi-purpose Capacitive Stylus for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It “weighs nearly as much as an iPhone, and is more akin to a Montblanc pen than any of the styli on the market currently,” according to Hard Candy Cases CEO Tim Hickman
On the opposite end of the digital stylus, users can take notes or sign important documents with the refillable ink pen function. The pen is chrome-finished for a lustrous sheen, and available online for US$34.95.
LaCie (http://www.lacie.com) has released two new professional storage solutions — the LaCie d2 USB 3.0 and LaCie 2big USB 3.0. Thanks to the inclusion of 3TB hard drives and the performance of USB 3.0, LaCie’s 2big USB 3.0, now available in 6TB, purportedly achieves a 20% speed boost by reaching 306MB/s.
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Apple wants to make displays are there simpler in design and even better looking, according to a new patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Patent number 20100271767 is for microperforated and backlit displays having alternative display capabilities.
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New Apple patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office involve multi-connectors, microphone lines, RAW imaging processing, and EMI switching circuits. Following is a summary of each.
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