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iPad purchase plans sluggish, AdMob survey finds

Feb 25, 2010 No Comments by admin

Only one in six iPhone owners surveyed by mobile ad network AdMobsaid that they “intend to purchase” an Apple iPad tablet computer. Among Android phone owners, the ratio dropped to one in seventeen…

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Why O2 Wants to Buy Jajah

Dec 21, 2009 No Comments by admin

O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today…

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The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

Hewlett Packard has beaten Apple to the punch in coming up with a beautiful tablet-like computer. The company’s just-announced DreamScreen products represent a new category of wireless connected screens. These screens are hybrids of slate computers and digital photo displays. They’re not multitouch screen-enabled. (You can easily imagine future models like that, once the costs come down). But [...]

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PC sales still sagging as market waits for Santa Claus

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

IDC’s has released its market report for the second quarter of 2009, and it contains little in the way of good news for beleaguered PC vendors. Worldwide PC shipments are down 2.4 percent year-over-year, as businesses and consumers continued to hold off on upgrades and new purchases. Adding to the misery was serious margin compression—aggressive discounting [...]

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Google FastFlip Is Latest Attack On Amazon Kindle (GOOG, AMZN)

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

What’s the point of Google’s new FastFlip reader? Not to change the way you read news on the Web — it’s too ugly and simplistic for that. But because it loads pages very fast — and requires minimal effort to navigate — it could be useful for portable devices. Specifically, tablet-like gadgets with 3G modems [...]

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Skype Founders Sue eBay — Big Surprise

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have sued eBay, the company that acquired their Internet telephony startup and turned them into billionaires. The lawsuit was filed by their company Joltid, which controls the core technology that powers Skype, in U.S. district court in Northern California. A similar battle is going on in a court [...]

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Now, Even the Government Has an App Store

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, unveiled Apps.Gov, a Web site where federal agencies will able to buy so-called cloud computing applications and services that have been approved by the government to replace more costly and cumbersome computing services at their own locations…

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Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, discussed his health and Apple’s new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here…

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Heads up Apple, the Intel Netbook is unstoppable

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

A typical flow of people passed through the laptop section in the 20 minutes I was there. Toward the end, all of the remaining customers (a few men and women, each) were marveling at all the cute, inexpensive laptops. Cute, inexpensive laptops to them, Netbooks to us in the media who like cut-and-dried categories…

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Steve Jobs says no Apple e-book. No one believes him

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

After Apple’s fun-but-not-earthshattering debut of a video-shooting iPod Nano earlier this week, Steve Jobs gave New York Times reporter David Pogue an interview. Asked if Apple was ready to debut an e-reader like Amazon’s Kindle — but much, much prettier, of course — Jobs said he didn’t think e-readers made sense:…

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Last.fm Scrobbles coming to a radio near you on October 5

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

CBS is taking Last.fm to the HD radio airwaves on October 5, crowdsourced music trends and all. The company revealed in a press conference Thursday that Last.fm will take over CBS’ HD broadcast stations in four major cities across the US—Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—though listeners in other markets will also be [...]

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