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  • Video: Discarded Motorola RAZR3 Prototype Gives a Glimpse Into The Moto That Could Have Been

    Video: Discarded Motorola RAZR3 Prototype Gives a Glimpse Into The Moto That Could Have Been

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Back in 2008, after milking the poor cash cow to death, Motorola decided to can their once crazy-popular RAZR series of phones. A good thing, too, as their Android line of phones are really quite good, and have helped them climb out of the dreaded red end. But today over on Slash Gear, a prototype RAZR3 has risen from the grave to show us a twisted world where Motorola feature phones were the hotness, and smart phones were only for the geeks and their pocket protectors (like me...). It's quite chilling.

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  • Call of Duty cash cow will be milked completely dry

    Call of Duty cash cow will be milked completely dry

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Let's go back to the year 2005. That autumn, RedOctane released a game called Guitar Hero. It was pretty successful, so it spawned a sequel, Guitar Hero II. That came out on the fall of 2006. One year later, Rock Band first popped up. Then, in the span of around two years, video game publishers lost their minds, and published approximaely 800 music rhythm games. Now you have a situation where not even The Beatles can make Rock Band big again. The lesson: don't saturate the market with same-y games too suddenly. With that in mind, laugh: Activision has created a “dedicated [Call of Duty] business unit that will bring together its various new brand initiatives with focused, dedicated resources around the world.” “Brand initiatives,” folks. Get ready for, like, 900 new Call of Duty games in the next few years!

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  • The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe

    The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Go figure, right? You get a relatively hot phone out onto more carriers, and just like that, sales increase. It ain't rocket science, buster. As AT&T grins happily while enjoying a death grip on Apple's cash cow here in the States, things are a lot more wide open for consumers across the pond. In both France and the UK, the iPhone has been given the all-clear to be sold on multiple carriers, and according to research from Bernstein, the "widening of the distribution has boosted Apple's value market share to 32 percent in the latest quarter from 21 percent just three months earlier." The notes also mention that Apple's increase is coming at the expense of RIM, with over 600,000 iPhone handsets being sold during Q3 2009 in France alone. The point to all this madness? Oh, not much -- just to tell Sir Jobs that he can count on quite a bit more dough should he decide to sell this elusive "iPhone" device on Verizon in the US of A.

    The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • How-to guide details PS/2 keyboard-to-iPhone mod, just for you

    How-to guide details PS/2 keyboard-to-iPhone mod, just for you

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments

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    Oh sure, we've seen hacker after hacker brag about their success in connecting some sort of keyboard to Apple's iPhone, but have any of them bothered to take the time to explain the process behind the magic? Exactly. The man behind AwghBlog, however, is a kinder, gentler soul, and he's found the time to detail in quite specific terms how he connected a legacy PS/2 keyboard (you know, the one you're not using any longer) to Apple's cash-cow of a smartphone. Best of all, the guide actually explains how to build a PS/2 keyboard-to-iPhone converter, so you're not necessarily tied to a certain board. Hit the read link if you're down for a weekend project.

    [Via MAKE]

    How-to guide details PS/2 keyboard-to-iPhone mod, just for you originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Modern Warfare 2 delayed for the PC, Call of Duty trademarked for movie use

    Modern Warfare 2 delayed for the PC, Call of Duty trademarked for movie use

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Two things: One, the PC release of Modern Warfare 2 has been delayed by a couple of weeks until November 24, 2009. The console versions are still on track of a November 10, 2009 release. Second, Hollywood is apparently in need of an all-American, shoot-'em-up, special effects nightmare of a movie because Activision has trademarked Call of Duty for movie use.

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  • HP to merge printers and PC to bolster both

    HP to merge printers and PC to bolster both

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    HP's printer division, long a cash cow, is being folded into its PC division after sales of printers and ink fell this year. Most companies broke out their printer divisions once they realized they could make a lot of money there but now that HP is beating Dell, the company may see a good reason to bring printers and PCs together.

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  • Microsoft VP says Google Chrome OS is a decoy

    Microsoft VP says Google Chrome OS is a decoy

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Walid Abu-Hadba, Microsoft's Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism, has gone on record to say that "[m]ost of what Google does is defensive." He has an interesting point: all of the non-search stuff that Google invests in keep its would-be competitors on their toes, and prevent those would-be competitors from encroaching upon the cash cow of Google's operation: search.

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