Wireless USB; Adobe Hurt by MS Settlement; more

Will Wireless USB give Bluetooth a Cavity? ZDNN reports that Cypress Semiconductor is introducing a new technology that it says could leapfrog Bluetooth and other standards to create a standard for wirelessly linking peripherals such as mice and keyboards to a computer. "The company's new WirelessUSB chip operates in the unregulated 2.4GHz band, offering lower latency than 27MHz, 433MHz and 900MHz devices, while being simpler and less expensive to implement than Bluetooth, Cypress said." More.

Adobe Hurt by Microsoft Settlement A CNET report notes that Deutsche Bank analyst Peter Ausnit lowered the bank's rating on Adobe from "hold" to "sell." Ausnit says the downgrade was based "partly on concerns that Friday's settlement of the Microsoft case on terms largely favorable to Microsoft will embolden the software giant to compete more directly with Adobe in key markets, including the one addressed by Adobe's Acrobat software for creating electronic documents." More.

IBM Offers Personal Computer Vision IBM Corp.'s Personal Computer Division previewed technologies intended to make PCs smarter and easier to maintain, according to an EE Times report. The so-called "ThinkVantage" technologies are supposed to reduce the time and money required to configure, upgrade and repair PCs, the company said. "IBM said it wants to reverse the cost of ownership model for PCs, which today takes 20 percent of the cost to purchase a system and 80 percent of the ownership cost to maintain it." More.

Dell's Decision to Sell iPods: More to the Story? NewsFactor speculates that there may be more to Dell's decision to begin selling Apple's iPod than first meets the eye. "On the surface, considering the higher profit margins the iPod enjoys compared with desktops and laptops, finding a new market makes a lot of sense. But Apple also may see its deal with Dell as a way to gently introduce Apple products -- albeit Windows-compatible ones -- and the Apple brand to a previously devout group of Windows users." More.

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