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  • Will The iPad Land In China Next August?

    Will The iPad Land In China Next August?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments

    Pan Shiyi, an affluent Chinese businessman and real estate mogul with a large following on social networking sites, has accidentally shared the news of an impending China launch for Apple's iPad come August, writes DigiCha. It appears mr. Pan got the news straight from Apple China head honcho Lu Lei, posted about it on a micro-blogging service to an audience of close to a million followers, and immediately removed the message after realizing that he shouldn't have shared it the world. Shiyi later apologized for the whole ordeal on his blog.

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  • Confirmed: T-Mobile to launch the HTC HD2

    Confirmed: T-Mobile to launch the HTC HD2

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    All the signs were already indicating that T-Mobile was planning on launching the gloriously beautiful HTC HD2, but good ol’ Stevie Ballmer just confirmed it during his CES 2010 keynote. Dates? Nope. Pricing? Nope. The best we’ve got is still HTC head honcho Peter Chou’s confirmation that it’d be launching in the US in “Early [...]

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  • Live from Monster’s CES press conference

    Live from Monster’s CES press conference

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
       Noel Lee, head honcho of Monster, is here and we’re live at the press conference. The focus is on speed – speed-rated HDMI cables. Monster’s also implemented a lifetime cable guarantee. “Thin is in.” New SuperThin series of HDMI cables. Designed for more portable devices. “We want 1080p out of our cell phones.” “Wham [...]

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  • Ralph de la Vega promises fix for San Francisco and Manhattan coverage, plans to ‘address’ heaviest data users

    Ralph de la Vega promises fix for San Francisco and Manhattan coverage, plans to ‘address’ heaviest data users

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Love that Pandora app? Well, we've got good news and bad news for you. The good news is that AT&T's wireless head honcho Ralph de la Vega says it's hard at work at improving service in San Francisco and Manhattan, where it sees especially high smartphone penetration -- and coincidentally a higher concentration of whiny tech journalists. The bad news, though, is that it might end up hitting you in the pocketbook. Speaking to investors today, de la Vega mentioned that the company is well aware that downtown New Yorkers are suffering, specifically calling out the area for "performing at levels below [its] standards" expressing confidence that it's going to get the problem resolved. In the same breath, though, he assured attendees that independent testing conducted by Global Wireless Solutions shows that a test of over 415 markets (which probably means 416 markets) has AT&T coming out on top for network speed -- something that we found in our testing as well -- and is "within two-tenths of 1 percent of the highest score among major providers" for dropped calls at 1.32 percent averaged nationally. Anyway, about that bad news -- the company has noticed that a huge chunk (some 40 percent) of its broadband is consumed by just 3 percent of smartphone users, and it's suggesting that it'll "address" that through a combination of usage meters (no complaints there) and likely a tiered pricing model that sticks it to the heaviest users "in a way that's consistent with net-neutrality and FCC regulations." At a glance, that sounds "fair" -- we'd rather they not increase data fees across the board to average out a very small number of users -- but the long-lost term "unlimited" still gives us a warm fuzzy that we're hoping to win back sooner or later. When LTE shows up, perhaps?

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  • Ballmer confirms Natal Xbox 360 for 2010

    Ballmer confirms Natal Xbox 360 for 2010

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Speaking at the Executive’s Club of Chicago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that a new Xbox 360 will be hitting store shelves next year. That’s pretty funny because Aaron Greenberg denied the whole thing a few days ago. So, we will see a Natal Xbox 360 next year according the head honcho. via TG Daily

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