Report: Logitech suspends the manufacture of Revue GoogleTV

Logitech is having some issues with its GoogleTV.

Update: In some press releases, Logitech denies that manufacturing has or would need to stop production due to software concerns.

Digitimes reports that Logitech(LOGI) has stopped production of its Revue at Gigabyte, the company who builds Revue units.  The report says that December and January are off the table and building Revue units in February is conditional on Google (GOOG) delivering an updated version of MORE

Nightline goes into Google's Android HQ

Bringing the smartphone news to the masses in a topical fashion.

It appears that it is time for the smartphone news to go mainstream, with news of the ongoing battle between Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) hitting ABC's Nightline viewers this week (after painful 1 minute commercial):

Two interesting things to note:

1. RIM's(RIMM) Blackberry wasn't even mentioned. Nor was global smartphone leader, Nokia(NOK)/Symbian.

2. In the time this short was made, MORE

The teens who build the iPhones

Rare photos and a video of life outside Foxconn's factory complex in Shenzhen, China

Foxconn workers. Photo: Jordan Pouille

French journalist Jordan Pouille, who reported last May on the working conditions at Foxconn's giant Shenzhen factory complex, paid a second visit recently.

He came back from China with photos, a videotape and a clearer picture than we've seen before of what life is like for the people who build iPhones and iPads MORE

Santa does FaceTime

A video Christmas card from the elves in Cupertino

For those of us who missed it because we spend more time on the Internet than we do watching advertising-supported television -- which will soon be most Americans, according to Forrester Research -- here's the iPhone ad Apple (AAPL) started airing Monday.

Also available as a QuickTime download at apple.com.

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Would you sell your Kindle to sell a used book?

A recent Supreme Court decision, confusing Copyright Office rules and Amazon's Kindle policies all indicate that the only way consumers will ever get to resell "used" ebooks may be to sell their hard drives, too.

Image via Wikipedia

By Seth Greenstein, contributor

The holiday season is upon us, and with it thoughts of peace on earth, goodwill... and the latest electronic media.  Visions of Kindles and Kinects dance in children's heads (and MORE

Everyone is coming with Verizon LTE Androids for CES

It looks like Verizon will have a full lineup of LTE Android devices ready for 2011.

Samsung 4G LTE device via Gizmodo

Samsung is the latest device manufacturer to leak their Verizon (VZ) LTE hand before CES.  The upcoming Galaxy S-ish Android phone appears to be running the Froyo (no Gingerbread?!) version of the Google (GOOG) Android OS and  also has a front facing camera (a first for Verizon).

Most importantly, you'll MORE

New evidence raises questions about how long Mark Hurd knew of Jodie Fisher (Updated)

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd's assistant has said she alone discovered and hired the former actress as an HP contractor in 2007. But it turns out Hurd asked about Fisher years earlier.

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd and actress and former HP contractor Jodie Fisher

Hewlett-Packard has uncovered evidence that former CEO Mark Hurd knew of Jodie Fisher as early as 2005, two full years before HP hired her to assist MORE

Financial Times names Steve Jobs 'Person of the Year'

Calls his "the most remarkable comeback in modern business history"

Source: Financial Times

The Financial Times has given Apple's (AAPL) CEO the honorific Time Magazine never did. From the citation in the current edition:

A rebuttal of F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-quoted aphorism that there are no second acts in American life does not come more decisively than this. When Steven Paul Jobs first hit the headlines, he was younger MORE

An Obama shout-out for Steve Jobs

Cites Apple's CEO as an exemplar of the American Dream

President Obama briefing the press Wednesday. Credit: whitehouse.gov

"We celebrate wealth," said President Obama in his year-end press briefing Wednesday afternoon.

"We celebrate somebody like a Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products. We expect that person to be rich, and that's a good thing. We want that incentive. That's part of MORE

Gary Winnick rebuilds

The fallen telecom star is using his  talents to focus on a new kind of infrastructure.

By Rupali Arora, contributor

Of all the bubbles that burst during the dotcom era, few popped louder than Gary Winnick's Global Crossing. The California entrepreneur, who built a network of undersea fiber-optic cables, became one of telecom's richest superstars. Though Global Crossing never posted a profit, its stock price grew and Winnick cavorted in a fleet MORE