Review: Proporta TurboCharger 5000 – External Emergency Charger Battery Pack
About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked. The touch-screen “tablet” device will be available for pre-order Saturday — from the startup. The blogger is out of the picture, back to producing posts rather than PCs. But this is Michael Arrington, the often caustic frontman of the TechCrunch blog, and he’s determined not to let the story end there. He filed suit in federal court on Thursday, saying the $500 JooJoo tablet is the fruit of his CrunchPad project. For its part, startup Fusion Garage says Arrington’s contribution was minimal, and he didn’t manage to fulfill his commitments to the project. Tired of waiting for him to come through, the startup went ahead on its own. The story begins in July 2008, when Arrington, one of Silicon Valley’s best-connected bloggers, posted a manifesto on TechCrunch. “I’m tired of waiting — I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet to surf the Web,” wrote Arrington, calling for collaborators to step forward. The post caught the attention of Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, the young founder of Fusion Garage, which had been working for a few months on software that might power such a tablet. Like Arrington, Rathakrishnan envisioned a system that was based on a Web browser rather than a desktop operating system such as Windows. That would allow the tablet to start up quickly and would keep hardware requirements — and thus costs — down. In September 2008, Rathakrishnan tracked Arrington down after a conference. Arrington agreed that Fusion Garage’s software might solve part of his tablet puzzle, and said he’d want to acquire Fusion Garage. Arrington said they settled on Fusion Garage owning 35 percent of a joint CrunchPad venture. “I thought that was exciting. Here…
Excerpt from: Tech Blog, Singapore Startup Feud Over Tablet PC
In the growing environment of netbooks, smartbooks and other small computers, I liked it.
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