Chatting to some of my buddies last week we discussed the importance of the next iPhone having a better camera and thought that the rumoured 5MP replacement was a good idea.
The point I made was that I could live with the 3MP version in exchange for a decent flash.
I guessed that after Fusion Garage dismissed Michael Arrington’s and TechCrunch’s involvement with the Crunchpad as being merely another blog on the release of the rebranded tablet, JooJoo, that the sound of lawyers preparing paperwork could be heard in the distance.
As sure as eggs are eggs the document INTERSERVE doing business as TECHCRUNCH and CRUNCHPAD INC versus FUSION GARAGE LTD has been filed.
According to Arrington, much of the key intellectual property – including the board and much of the mechanicals – is owned by Pegatron, the manufacturing arm of Asus.
”Pegatron was licensing this IP (intellectual property) back to the project exclusively. Fusion Garage is no longer working with Pegatron, they’ve hired a new ODM. They have likely given Pegatron’s IP to the new ODM to speed development. Pegatron has expressed concern to us about this, and I would not be surprised if they sued Fusion Garage separately over this issue,” claimed Arrington.
Unsurprisingly, Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan vehemently disagreed with Arrington’s claims.
“The JooJoo tablet – including the hardware and UI – was built and designed by Fusion Garage. We have been working on [this device] since February 2008,” Chandra told TG Daily. “Remember, TechCrunch originally wanted to acquire Fusion Garage, but that didn’t happen. [It is also worth noting] that [Arrington's] original [CrunchPad] price point of $200 was utterly unrealistic. In fact, it was little more than a hallucination.”
My only word of advice would be to hang on before preording the Joojoo for the $500 deposit – I know it’s nice and been a long time in coming as the CrunchPad but if Arrington’s lawsuit is true regarding the lack of Fusion Garage’s sound capital resource then this could end up being a long wait and could involve you kissing your cash goodbye.
I for one will be waiting to see it fully reviewed and perhaps even sat on my desk at Gadgety Towers before advising you to splash some cash
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Samsung Bada went a little bit more public today when I got a press-release in my mailbox that started:
Samsung bada (meaning Ocean in Korean) is a driving force in accomplishing Samsung’s vision of a ‘smartphone for everyone’.
Samsung Bada is pretty important as it’s actually built on the company’s Touchwiz interface and is being aimed at [...]
I was honoured with being one of the first members of the press to actually be shown around the Future Technology lab at Sony’s R&D base in Stuttgart.
The lab’s General Manager, Dr. Gabriele Nelles, spoke to us about the clever dye-sensitised solar cells that they are working on – the Hana-Akari lamps (pictured) were exhibited [...]
It sounds like Twitter has plans to turn its addictive mircoblogging sensation into a cash making machine via that other addiction: Shopping.
Plans are underway to convert the Web 2.0 phenomenon into an e-commerce network where mentions of products and recommendations from tweets can be linked to product purchasing pages directly on the site.
Millions of Tweeple already use the [...]
There’s a Microsoft funded Research team somewhere in the UK developing a device that combines the office-gold that is the Post-it note with its own Social Network service called Wayve.
It kinda looks like a digital photo frame but this has a touchscreen that allows you to write messages on ’sticky notes’ as reminders to feed [...]
The QB1 is a robot created by Swiss group OZWE.
QB1 could well be the next step in music players as well as bringing us closer to having interactive bots in the home with specific tasks.
If you think about it; things like Genius playlists and LastFM has altered the way we consume and interact with music and OZWE wants to have the same effect [...]
Those who know me will already be aware that I like inked skin – not silly cartoon characters or names of lovers: I mean body art that means something to the wearer and will continue to mean something when the ink has faded and the skin gone wrinkly.
If I hadn’t moved from Yorkshire to London [...]
Nope – I’m not about to start rambling on about a new development in oven-ready meals that utilises a funky tin foil interface.
That bit of foil is the future of public address speakers.
Soon, hopefully, announcements on train platforms and other public places will become crystal clear instead of that mumbling annoyance that we currently have [...]
The BAVGA’s – that’s British Academy Video Games – have now been handed out and no doubt a bunch of heartfelt and teary acceptance speaches have been made and much booze supped.
Voting is, as you’d expect, a secretive process that follows the fact that the judges have actually played the nominated titles and then have to weigh [...]
Word over at TechCrunch is that Apple may be working on a search engine of its own.
This isn’t wholly unreasonable when you see that its Safari web browser has 6-7% market share but uses Google as the search engine for both the computer and iPhone/iPod versions.
And they can’t be overly happy with Google’s competition to [...]
You will, by now, be aware of the Wii MotionPlus add on that enables the WiiMote to more accurately reflect your motions in a 3-D space.
This means that every slight movement players make with their wrist or arm is rendered identically in real time on the screen, providing a true 1:1 response in their game play.
This is all good news [...]
There has been a rumbling about the specs of the rumoured USB 3.0 controllers.
Some have said that Intel have been dragging their feet to give themselves more time to design for it.
Today they have set the record straight saying the specs are now available and would be released for free, as planned.
As Intel’s ‘Fall Developer [...]
CBS is reporting on a fire that broke out in the middle of the night at the Apple R&D facility in Cupertino!
There was said to be up to 66 fighters at the scene to combat the fire.
Early assesment from Firefighter Deputy Rooney revealed that the fire started under an air conditioning unit.
No one was reported to be [...]
ZMP, the Tokyo based “world’s first venture company focusing on robot technology” is selling the source code (Japanese site) for nuvo, one of its best-selling robots.
nuvo was unveiled in 2004 and ZMP says it’s the first robot for home use.
The company are aiming to establish a research community focused on the findings from research with [...]
Microsoft Research is sorting a Windows replacement!
A leaked white paper that is the source of an article on SD Times has started the beautiful rumour-mill on the interblogweb and all the whispers are about “Midori”.
For those who are thinking “Midori? Wassaten?”
It’s a stripped down and modular Operating System that centers around the net.
So I’m guessing [...]
Now, I know what you’re thinking and so does Art Lebedev.
Art Lebedev’s Maximus wasn’t enough for all you lovers of OLED keyboards so they is busting out the new Optimus Pultius innit; adding another 15 keys to the joy - alternatively you can use it all by itself.
The keys are just like the ones on the Maximus, [...]
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