The final determination was issued Friday, Garmin said, and ends the ITC’s review of Garmin’s products, reported Yahoo!News.

No comments were available from either Pioneer or Garmin.

Source: Yahoo!News

So declares an AllThingsDigital (Wall Street Journal) in a blog by John Paczkowski.

“Apple is succeeding in the category because it reinvented it. Now anyone that hopes to compete in it must do so by peddling products similar to it. And because of that, Apple will dominate the tablet category in much the same way it dominated the portable music player category,” he said.

Bernstein Research conducted a study and declared, “We find that consumers are not interested in form factors that deviate from the benchmark set by Apple. Few consumers, less than 15 percent prefer the 7″ screen size versus the 10″ screen of the iPad. Over 50 percent of respondents are firmly in favor of the 10″ screen…”

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The exact price of the TRW-17 is $12,900; but maybe Eminent could find a way to make a slightly cheaper 12 volt model for the car.

Source: CNET

This is now the case in California and 8 other Western states, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled. The government requires no search warrant to enter your driveway and then track your car, because you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your driveway, said the Court.

Time magazine today called the ruling bizarre and scary and wondered if the U.S. will become a totalitarian state.

This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents wanted to monitor an Oregon man suspected of growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property at night and and put a tracking device under his Jeep.

The Oregon man, Juan Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA’s actions but the court in January ruled it legal and a second group of judges this month, ruled to let the decision stand.

To make matters worse, the court also ruled that once a GPS device has been planted, the government can track people without a warrant. Now there is a battle underway in federal and state courts regarding this issue and the issue is likely to wind up in the Supreme Court.

Source: Time magazine

7 Top Creature Comforts in New Cars
1—heated/cooled seats
2—heated/cooled cup holders (and in-car coolers)
3—rear seat entertainment systems
4—satellite radio
5—Bluetooth
6—iPod (MP3) interfaces
7—Car WiFi

Source: Bankrate.com via Yahoo!Finance

Source: Business Insider

Source: Kindle.com via SlashGear

India has developed a tablet that costs a whopping $35. It’s called a laptop by India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal who unveiled the device, but it might be best described as a thick tablet with a touch screen. It includes an Internet browser, PDF reader, video conferencing and runs on Linux. It’s flexible enough to add components, said Reuters.

India’s Sibal told a news conference, “We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything,” he told a news conference.

The device was developed by research teams at 2 of India’s universities. The aim is to get the cost of the device down to $10. That’s tough to compete with.

Source: Reuters

To give you an idea of Pandora’s growth, it’s up from 50 million users in April and 40 million December, as the iPhone has helped Pandora reach a broader audience. The create-your-own radio service is on track to pass 100 million listeners next year. 100 million is a lot. By comparison, Facebook, the now gold standard for mass social media, has 500 million users.

Source: TechCrunch

Numerous reports say the computer maker already scrapped plans for both Windows 7 and Android based tablets. HP also said in April, when it announced it purchased Palm, that it planned to extend the Palm OS beyond smartphones. And now this.

The name PalmPad is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark application form says only that HP will restrict the device’s use to “Computers, computer hardware, computer software, computer peripherals, portable computers, handheld and mobile computers, PDAs, electronic notepads, mobile digital electronic devices,” said CNET’s Crave blog citing MyHPMini.

No further details were offered but analysts expect some kind of HP tablet in 2011.
Source: MyHPMini via Crave

Photo: MyHPMini

Global shipments of tablet PCs in 2010 will reach 16.4 million units with 93 percent of the volume from the Apple iPad. In 2011, shipments will double to 35 million with Apple seeing a 75 percent share. Of course, netbooks will be most affected as they share a similar use case to the tablet.

Source: Digitimes

The Toshiba Book Place will launch “in the coming weeks” and the software will be pre-loaded on Toshiba laptops with some sample free books. The site will also allow text-to-speech to “read aloud books,” and even background music specific to the book. It also provides highlighting, annotating, note taking, hyperlinks, etc. and it simulates realistic page turns. Follow the link and click on the demo.

Source: Toshiba via electronista

“In the past Amazon has required readers to send a sample section of a book to a device before it could be previewed. The new service will show an e-book directly in the browser,” said The New York Times. The feature will be available in the coming weeks.

Amazon also launched an Android eReader app on Tuesday and added audio and video capability to Kindle apps on Monday.

Source: Amazon and The New York Times

The service will be available on the Apple iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the 3rd gen iPod touch in addition to the PC at Hulu.com. And it will also work on Samsung Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players.

Hulu Plus will soon support the PlayStation 3 and it will add support for the Xbox 360 early next year. Sony and Vizio TVs and Blu-ray players will be compatible with the service this fall, said PCMag.

Source: PCMag

The lightweight, 7-inch Cius runs on Android and provides video conferencing, WiFi and high speed wireless connections, said Reuters. It is billed as a “collaboration and communication device for enterprises.”

Cisco said, the 1.15-pound Cius is “designed to more securely connect employees on-the-go with the right people in real-time, and to provide those workers with the ability to access and share the content they need from any place on the network.”

Other features include access to a desktop PC, HD Video, email, web browsing and Android apps. It will also have a front-facing and a rear-facing camera and allow users to produce, edit and share cloud-based content, said TheStreet.

Source: Cisco, engadget, Reuters, TheStreet

The Photo via TheStreet shows the tablet in a desktop docking station.