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New iPhone Risks Same Old Same Old

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Can the iPhone bring sexy back? With more than 128 million iPhones sold since 2007, the device’s ubiquity has created a marketing and design challenge for Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL – News): how to wow consumers in a maturing smartphone market where many alternatives now look and feel like Apple’s gadget. That’s a challenge Apple [...]

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Samsung Galaxy R smartphone sports Nvidia Tegra CPU

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Samsung and Nvidia have announced they’re extending their technology partnership from tablets to smartphones, today announcing the Galaxy R smartphone, a new entry in Samsung’s well-regarded Galaxy line that will sports a 4.19-inch display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the same dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor that powers Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The addition of the Tegra [...]

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Video: Can Google’s Chromebook Compete With Apple?

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iCloud Gadget Looxcie 2: Wearable Headset Grabs Video

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Within just hours of Steve Jobs’ announcement of iCloud at WWDC in San Francisco, a new “iCloud-ready” gadget debuted. The Looxcie 2, a wearable Bluetooth video headset, lets you share videos via iCloud, as well as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. You control it directly via a free Android or iOS app, which also allows a [...]

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Apple Cuts The Cord On DUI Checkpoint-Evasion Apps

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In light of the recent controversy over iOS apps that tip tipsy users on the locations of DUI checkpoints, Apple has made a few tweaks to its App Store Review Guidelines. “Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected,” the revision [...]

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Embarrassed Verizon Launches Second LTE Smartphone

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After an embarrassing delay due to “unexpected” problems, Verizon Wireless has launched its second smartphone capable of using its newly minted high-speed Long Term Evolution data network. The Samsung Droid Charge was scheduled for release in late April before the LTE network briefly crashed in some areas, preventing new activations and slowing data speeds, but [...]

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Nook Color Steps Up Its Tablet Game

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Per Paul Demery of Internet Retailer: Is it an e-reader or a tablet? At less than half the price of an iPad 2 and small enough to fit in a handbag, the latest version of Barnes & Noble Inc.42BarnesandNoble.com Inc. Books / Music / VideosOnline Sales:$493,000,000 (IR estimate)Growth:5.8%See More. ’s Nook Color is chockfull of [...]

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Sony Dives Into Tablet Race

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According to CNN Money: Sony is diving into the tablet race, announcing Tuesday that is working on two gadgets that will hit the market this fall. One of the tablets, code-named S1, will be a flat slate with a 9.4-inch screen, just a touch smaller than Apple’s iPad. Its S2 tablet will be more unusual, [...]

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Apple Slammed Over iPhone, iPad Location Tracking

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According to Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press: Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users — records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge. It’s not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such [...]

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Tablet Market Trends 2011

By Tim McGuinness, Ph.D.

The Tablet Universe 2011 Tablets appear to be stratifying in their segements: Apple iOS for the iPad; Windows (both Starter Edition on the loaw end, and the full Windows 7 Home Premium or Prefssional editions), and the specrum of Androids. Windows is not expected to be the leader, but does fill essential niches, especially for [...]

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