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  • Apple iPad Held 85% Media Tablet Market Share in 2010, Says ABI Research

    Posted on April 20, 2011 | No Comments
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  • ENERGIZER® Announces AP1201 Rechargeable iPhone 4® Case With Built-in Battery, Providing Continuous Power Source

    Posted on October 6, 2010 | No Comments
    ST. LOUIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The proliferation of smartphones has led an increasing number of people to depend on mobile devices for much more than just making phone calls, and with that shift comes...

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  • iPhone OS 4.0 – now iOS – is here

    iPhone OS 4.0 – now iOS – is here

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    The second biggest news out of San Fran today? The announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple’s biggest improvement to the iPhone OS since, well, 3.0. This new version includes multi-tasking (although backgrounding would be the proper term), app folders, a new version of Mail, and a carrier unlock (Not officially sanctioned by Apple, but available [...]

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  • Is the Next Prius Going To Be A Tesla?

    Is the Next Prius Going To Be A Tesla?

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Toyota and Tesla announced a new partnership at Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto today, the auto makers will collaborate on technology, the development of new electric vehicles and Toyota will purchase $50 million of Tesla's common stock. The press conference featured the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk and TMC President, Akio Toyoda. Calling it an "explosion" for California (I think he meant this in the positive sense, not the Terminator sense) Schwarzenegger framed it as a victory for California's environmental agenda and the economy. He predicts it will create 1,000 jobs for the state's embattled economy.

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  • RedLaser on a Roll: 2 Million Downloads, 950K Active Users and 50 Million Product Scans

    RedLaser on a Roll: 2 Million Downloads, 950K Active Users and 50 Million Product Scans

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot dog! Occipital, the company behind RedLaser, has been on fire since we last covered them in December. As of today, RedLaser, the top-selling iPhone app that leverages your camera to scan barcodes, announces today that it has been downloaded over 2 million times. Of those 2 million downloads, 950,000 of users have been active [...]

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  • HP and Dragon Training

    HP and Dragon Training

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    How to Train Your Dragon, from DreamWorks Pictures opened on Friday and promptly blew fire over most of the competition. Numerous outlets reported the film was Number 1 at the box office this past weekend, despite somewhat slower ticket sales than expected. In case those HP commercials featuring New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby (perhaps most well-known [...]

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  • No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Don’t expect new console hardware from Nintendo in the near future. When asked “When do you think it’ll be time for new hardware?” in a recent interview with Gamespot, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway replied, “I don’t think it’ll be any time soon because even though our installed base is, at this point, 5 million households larger than the PS2 installed base was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.”

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  • Analysts think you’re going to want to buy a connected GPS in 5 years

    Analysts think you’re going to want to buy a connected GPS in 5 years

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Analyst firm, Berg Insight, thinks that eighty-eight percent of all GPS units shipped in 2015 will have cellular connectivity. This seems like a blindingly obvious prediction to me.

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  • Tesla Motors preparing to go public “soon”

    Tesla Motors preparing to go public “soon”

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Tesla Motors is planning an IPO soon according to a Reuter's report. However at this point it's still not clear when that will be although the company had previously stated it won't happen in 2009. In fact, this rumor has been around for sometime, but in case you didn't notice, the stock market wasn't doing that well until recently. Tesla has been ramping up development of its all-electric Model S sports sedan and building selling Tesla Roadsters as quick as they can make 'em. Of course the $597.5 million in funding that the company raised this year probably helps.

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  • Clearwire raises an additional $1.5B to continue building its nationwide WiMAX network

    Clearwire raises an additional $1.5B to continue building its nationwide WiMAX network

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks (to name a few) continue to bet big on Clearwire’s WiMAX nationwide wireless network. The foursome have just pumped an additional $1.494 billion into Clearwire’s coffer, with another $50 million coming from Intel and $20 million from Eagle River Holdings. CHA-CHING. More specifically, Sprint, which owns 51 [...]

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  • Apple Shares App Store Stats: 85k Apps Available, 2 Billion Downloads So Far

    Apple Shares App Store Stats: 85k Apps Available, 2 Billion Downloads So Far

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple has announced that the App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch has now seen more than 2 billion downloads of applications, with a half billion programs in the last quarter alone. In addition, the company revealed that the total number of apps in the store currently exceeds 85,000, and that they are now available to more than 50 million customers in 77 countries.

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  • Too little too late: Japan’s NTT Docomo to enter the US cell phone market in 2010

    Too little too late: Japan’s NTT Docomo to enter the US cell phone market in 2010

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan's NTT DoCoMo, the country's biggest mobile phone subscriber with over 50 million subscribers, is considering fully entering the American cell phone market - as early as next year. Various Japanese media are reporting that the company plans to offer phones featuring DoCoMo's proprietary mobile web service "i-mode" in the USA (the picture shows phones from their Japanese summer line-up).

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  • This isn’t going to end well: NTT Docomo to enter the US cell phone market next year

    This isn’t going to end well: NTT Docomo to enter the US cell phone market next year

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan's NTT DoCoMo, the country's biggest mobile phone subscriber with over 50 million subscribers, is considering fully entering the American cell phone market - as early as next year. Various Japanese media are reporting that the company plans to offer phones featuring DoCoMo's proprietary mobile web service "i-mode" in the USA (the picture shows phones from their Japanese summer line-up).

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  • Nokia’s Ovi Store overwhelmed at launch, apology issued

    Nokia’s Ovi Store overwhelmed at launch, apology issued

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments

    Where's the fail whale when you need it, right? Early yesterday morning, Nokia flipped the switch on its Ovi Store, claiming that it's app market would potentially reach some 50 million users around the world. Unfortunately for Nokia, it seems as if all 50 million attempted to check things out at the same time. Web-wide, users were griping that things just weren't working out, and we're not talking about small packets of flustered users. In fact, Nokia was forced to admit that "shortly after launching, it began experiencing extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues," and judging by reactions, we'd say "some" is now a front-runner for understatement of the year. Have things smoothed over for you today? Are you even bothering to check?

    Update: Nokia has apologized for the gaff and has reportedly added server capacity to handle the demand. Question is: is the fix working?

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