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Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel to Consult on Student Tablet Hardware

in News on April 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up. In addition to the funding from its venture capital ark, Intel itself will license the hardware design of Kno, which will now focus on its software to manage the devices that are aimed at the college market.

Qualcomm CEO Explains What Happened to Smartbooks

in Mobile on December 2, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

A year ago, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was talking a lot about smartbooks. Today, well, not so much. For those who have already forgotten what the smartbook even was, the idea was to have a low-cost device that looked a lot like a netbook but offered far better battery life and instant-on capabilities. Once Apple released the iPad, though, everyone started focusing on tablet devices rather than on little notebooks. “Obviously, tablets are the flavor of the day,” Jacobs said in an interview on Tuesday.

Kno Prices Its Student Tablets at $599 and $899 to Ship by End of the Year

in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sale at prices of $599 and $899. The lower price is for its single-screen device, while the clamshell double-screen version is more expensive. Kno would not say exactly how many it has ordered for its first tablet production run–the device is being built by China’s Foxconn–but co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid said in an interview earlier today that units would number “in the thousands.”

Kno to Also Make a Single-Screen Tablet Textbook

in News on September 27, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

Kno, the start-up that is creating a digital tablet for students, said it is also planning on releasing a single-screen version. The company–which was started by the founder of Chegg, the online textbook rental company–had debuted a double-screen tablet at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference in June.

Here's What VCs Get for $46 Million: The Kno Tablet D8 Demo

in News on September 8, 2010 at 7:55 am PT

Today, Kno, a start-up that is taking on the textbook by replacing it with a tablet aimed at students, nabbed another $46 million in venture funding from a panoply of Silicon Valley bigs. And what are those moneybags getting for their dough? Well, here’s the demo for Kno, which debuted at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference in June.

Full D8 Demo Video: Kno

in D8 on August 2, 2010 at 9:59 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here’s the demo for Kno, a start-up that is taking on the textbook by replacing it with a tablet aimed at students. The clamshell device has a pair of touchscreens that open and shut like a book and Kno will offer an online store linked to Kno for the purchase of materials.

RIM Product Line More FrankenBerry Than CrackBerry

in News on June 26, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

With the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS in stores and the myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Google Android phone, headed to market, is Research in Motion’s product lineup beginning to look a bit dated? Which leads to another question: Has RIM’s success made it too complacent? GC Research analyst Tero Kuittinen believes it has.
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New BlackBerry Offers Versatility in Flip Form

in The Mossberg Solution on October 14, 2008 at 5:18 pm PT

Smartphones are masters of multitasking. They email, browse the Web, instant message, take pictures, run applications or play videos and music. So it’s easy to forget how uncomfortable they are to use as phones.
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