Best Buy Posts Mixed Q4 Earnings, Plans To Close 50 U.S. Stores
Best Buy on Thursday reported results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012. The nationwide retail giant had missed Wall Street's estimates in both the…
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Nearly 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped In 2011
The International Data Corporation on Wednesday announced that shipments of smart connected devices —including PCs, tablets and smartphones — reached 916 million units and surpassed…
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U.K. And Swedish Regulators Follow Australia's Lead, Examine '4G' iPad Claims
Earlier this weak, Australian regulators claimed that Apple was misleading consumers with false promotions and advertisements for its new "4G" iPad tablet. While the new iPad…
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See-Through 3D Computer With Gesture Controls Gives Us A Glimpse Of The Future [Video]
Some believe a future full of massive, gesture-controlled computer displays like the ones seen in Twentieth Century Fox's Minority Report are an inevitability, and a…
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Apple Offers Refunds To Duped iPad Buyers In Australia
Apple's hot new iPad tablet has been a massive global success. The company recently announced that it sold more than 3 million new slates in…
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Intel's Market Share Surges To 10-Year High
Intel in 2011 achieved its highest annual market share in more than 10 years, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. The chipmaker's market share…
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RIM: 'Grim And Getting Grimmer'
Research In Motion is set to report its results for the fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year on Thursday, and Wall Street is bracing itself…
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Low Cost Tablets To Control 60% Of The Market By 2016
Since Apple introduced its iPad tablet more than two years ago, the market the market it revived has been approached by nearly every other…
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Next-Generation Kindle Fire Tablet Could Be Nearing Production
BGR exclusively reported nearly a year ago that Amazon was working on two new devices that would push the retail giant beyond eReaders and into the…
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Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Said To Launch In Q3
Following a report that stated Google's next major Android updated could launch as early as the second quarter this year, the Internet giant is now…
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Verizon Adding Remote Diagnostics Tool To Devices; No Carrier IQ-Like Spying Features Included
It has been just over three months since the Carrier IQ "spygate" epidemic engulfed the mobile world. As smartphones and tablets become more powerful, consumers…
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App Developers Continue To Choose iOS, Android And BlackBerry Fall Behind
Appcelerator, in conjunction with market research firm IDC, on Tuesday announced the results of a recent joint survey of 2,173 app developers from around the…
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FAA Taking A 'Fresh Look' At The Use Of Personal Electronics On Planes
Kindles and iPads have moved into the mainstream, and by the end of 2012 it is predicted that more than 40 million eReaders and 60…
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Skyfire HotSwap Lets Families Share Apple's iPad And Stay Logged In [Video]
In a recent feature about Windows 8 and an earlier piece covering some of the problems facing iPad competitors, we mentioned the lack of multi-user login…
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New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New iPad For 30 Days Before Buying
A new subscription service allows potential gadget owners to test out new devices like Apple's new iPad tablet before committing to a purchase. YBUY, which bills…
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'Anonymous' Hacker Group Releases Its Own Desktop OS [Updated]
Notorious hacker group "Anonymous Operations" on Wednesday released the first version of its own desktop operating system. Dubbed Anonymous-OS, the computer platform is built on…
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Corporate Demand For Apple's iPad Increases
Roughly one out of five companies plan to purchase tablets for their employees in the second quarter of 2012, according to a survey from ChangeWave…
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Apple's Tablet Share Slides In Q4 Following Kindle Fire Launch
Tablet shipments increased 56.1% in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 28.2 million units worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. A total of 68.7…
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Dear Microsoft: You're Doing It Right
Microsoft's Windows 8 tablets will be the first to complete with the iPad because they offer something Android never has: differentiation.
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Nokia's Rumored 10-Inch Windows 8 Tablet Reportedly Coming In Q4
Nokia and Microsoft plan to continue their mobile partnership by entering into the tablet race, DigiTimes reported on Monday. According to the publication, Nokia will…
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Apple Says New iPad Demand Is 'Off The Charts' As Pre-Orders Sell Out
Apple confirmed this past weekend that pre-order inventory of its new iPad tablet has been depleted. "Customer response to the new iPad has been off the…
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Apple Forced To Cut Profit Margins With New iPad, Analyst Says
In an effort to keep the iPad's price the same, Apple may have had to cut profit margins compared to previous models, The Wall Street…
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Android Tablet Vendors May Not Survive An 'iPad Mini'
Samsung, Asus and other Android tablet vendors are reportedly very concerned over rumors that Apple is working on a 7.85-inch version of its iPad tablet,…
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Raspberry Pi Suffers A Manufacturing Hiccup, Possible Delays
Shipments of the long-awaited Raspberry Pi single-board Linux computer may be delayed due to a "manufacturing hiccup." The company on Thursday said that during the…
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In A Post-PC World, Gartner Sees PC Growth Accelerating In 2012
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new iPad, a sleek slate with a stunning 2,048 x 1,536-pixel Retina Display, a speedy Apple A5X processor and embedded…
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Former Top Microsoft Exec: 'Of Course We Are In A Post-PC World'
Whether or not we are currently living in the post-PC era is no longer a question, Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said recently. "People…
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Windows 8 Can Wipe A PC Clean In Just Six Minutes
BGR published a full review of Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview last week, and to say we were impressed is an understatement. Make no mistake,…
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