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Well, we may treat this as another confirmation to our growing list of evidences of the tablet’s existence..or not. However, any mention of this illusive tablet from the Cupertino company is well-worth discussing, don’t you think?

You may remember a few months back that New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller made a “slip” and mentioned the “impending Apple slate” at an internal meeting with his digital staff.

This time, it’s France Telecom deputy chief executive Stéphane Richard that uhm, made an affirmation regarding the tablet.

According to PCWorld, in an interview with journalist Jean Pierre Elkabbach, Richard twice interrupted with a “Oui” when Elkabbach talked of reports of an Apple tablet. Now, unless my French are that rusty, “Oui” means, “Yes”, right?

And when asked if Orange (owned by the French Telecom) customers will be able to enjoy the product, the deputy chief exec responded with “Bien sûr” which in English means, “Of course”.

So does mean this one’s a keeper? The PR people at Orange don’t want us to think so. They are now scrambling to recover from the slip, telling the MocoNews that Richard’s comments don’t count as confirmation and his words were just taken out of context, poorly translated, yada yada.

Well, what do you think?

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/186614/orange_apple_tablet_not_confirmed_by_france_telecom.html

Credit: iSuppli

iSuppli says Google’s Nexus One actually contains around $174-worth of hardware. To estimate the bill of materials, the company broke down all of the phone’s components and  came up with a fairly simple breakdown.

The phone’s 1 GHz Snapdragon processor is the most expensive part, costing $30.50. The OLED display comes in second with $23.50 then the device’s memory which is $20.40.

The Nexus One’s touchscreen assembly comes in next, costing $17.50 and the camera with $12.50.

The MicroSD Card ($8.50), Bluetooth/wLAN ($8.20) and Battery ($5.25) rounds up the breakdown. The rest of the expenses goes to parts like electrical components, power management technology and other mechanical hardware.

Manufactured by HTC, the Nexus One costs $529 if you buy it unlocked or $179 if it comes with a two-year T-Mobile contract.

What do you think? Is the price worth it?

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/186658/nexus_one_cheaper_than_an_iphone_inside.html

The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language  announced that late last week that the verb “Google”  has been chosen at the top word of the past decade.

Other words up for the Word of the Decade include  9/11, blog, green, wi-fi, text and war on terror but it was search giant’s wide-spread use that beat them all off.

“I really thought ‘blog’ would take the honors in the word of the decade category, but more people google than blog, don’t they? Plus, many people think “blog” just sounds ugly. Maybe Google’s trademark lawyers would have preferred it, anyway,” Grant Barrett, chair of the society’s New Words Committee said in a statement.

The American Dialect Society also announced late last week that Twitter’s “tweet” as the top word of 2009.

“Both words are, in the end, products of the Information Age, where every person has the ability to satisfy curiosity and to broadcast to a select following, both via the Internet,” Barrett said.

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143758/Google_named_Word_of_the_Decade

Credit: WakeMate

The folks at Perfect Third wants to help you get a better sleep so they’ve created WakeMake – a Bluetooth wristband that measures the motion of your sleep patterns and circadian rhythms. It works with any cellular phone with Bluetooth capability.

So how does it work?

All you have to do is activate the WakeMate application and set a WakeMate-approved alarm before dozing off. Using actigraphy, a non-invasive method of monitoring human rest/activity cycles, the wristband uploads all the technical details (e.g. sleep patterns, etc.) to WakeMate’s servers.

When you wake up, you’ll be able to see how well you slept, and even data and facts about how much sleep you have been getting and how much you should be getting.

With continued use, the app will eventually rank your sleep performance using a faint praise or a subtle grumbling. The app will also give you advice how to get a better night’s sleep.

Interested? You can now pre-order your own WakeMate at their website for $50 with a $5 deposit and free worldwide shipping.

Source: http://www.macworld.com/article/145625/2010/01/wakemate.html

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