Apple, Siemens, Sisvel force booth shutdown at CeBIT
Apple, Siemens and technology licensor Sisvel together were reported as having forced an exhibitor to shut down an exhibitor's booth at CeBIT. The three had the unnamed e-reader and netbook maker's floor space cleared out on Friday after they alleged that the company violated patents. Lawyers for Apple, Siemens and Sisvel are said to have visited the company's booth on Thursday and levied a 10,000 euro fine in advance of a raid the following day by German police.
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Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 laptop now on sale
Two months after its unveiling at CES, the Arrandale-powered IdeaPad Y460 laptop has been added to Lenovo's online shop and is available for purchase with a stating price of $999. The new portable PC features a 14-inch (1366x768) LED-backlit display, a 2.13 GHz Core i3-330M or 2.4 GHz Core i5-520M CPU, 4GB of RAM, Intel integrated graphics or an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB, a 320/500GB hard drive, a DVD writer and a6-cell battery.
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YouTube expands auto-captioning functionality
In November YouTube introduced auto-captions in order to better cater users who have hearing problems (or like reading). With this feature, videos could be added captions without much intervention from the uploader as the task was done by Google's servers using voice recognition algorithms to turn audio into text.
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Asus Eee PC 1001PQ dedicated to children
Among the relatively crowded Eee PC line-up on display at Asus' CeBIT booth one can spot a more colorful model which aims to offer a safe and fun web surfing/computing experience to children around the world. Named Eee PC 1001PQ, the new netbook is based on the Pine Trail platform and comes pre-loaded with a kid-friendly browser with parental controls, as well as applications and games for e-learning.
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