Archive for December, 2010 - Page 6

BlackBerry PlayBook Battery Issues Not Real According to RIM [RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet On Schedule As Battery Problems Are Denied by Manufacturer]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

A couple of days ago we saw a rather disturbing report claiming that the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM’s first QNX tablet, expected to launch in March 2011, was going to be delayed to May or even later due to certain battery [...]

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HP Awarded $2.5 Billion In Contract With NASA [Hewlett Packard Receives New Contract Worth $2.5 Billion Over 10 Years From NASA]]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Hewlett Packard has long been one of the bigger computer companies in the United States and a new contract with the nation’s leading space agency ensures relevancy for at least another decade. HP was recently awarded a $2.5 billion contract [...]

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Sharp Galapagos Tablets Expected To Arrive In US Market In 2011 [Sharp Planning To Release The Galapagos Tablets In US This Year, Will Feature Built-in 3G & Epub Support]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Sharp originally announced their Galapagos line of tablet readers back in late-September and then first launched them in Japan in December. Sadly though, for a little while things got quite and it appeared as if Japan was the only area [...]

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eBay’s Gross Sales Skyrocket Over The Holidays Thanks In Large Part To Their Mobile Apps [eBay's Sales Up 166 Percent Over One Year Ago]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

All across America retailers saw a real boost in sales over the holiday season compared to the same period in 2009. Many of these companies pointed to this as a sign that the economy is rebounding and one of the [...]

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Poll Shows Huge Majority Don’t Want FCC To Regulate Internet [Rasmussen Reports That Majority Want Internet UnRegulated]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

A new survey by Rasmussen Reports shows that the new “Net Neutrality” rules imposed by the FCC are not exactly popular. In fact in a time when the country is as divided as it has been in decades most people [...]

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Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 Launch Event Scheduled for Valentine’s Day? [New Rumors Suggest Apple will Hold a Special Event in February to Announce the Verizon iPhone 4]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

The Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 is one of the most expected devices of 2011 as it will mark the end of one of the longest iPhone exclusivity deals in the world, AT&T’s, not to mention that one of the most [...]

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iPhone’s Foodspotting App Lets Users Document Their Favorite Foods Pictorially [Foodspotting App For iPhone Allows Users To Share Their Favorite Foods With Other Area Users With Photographs]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

As the uses for iPads and iPhones grow all the time, users are starting to see more and more social apps like Foodspotting. Foodspotting is basically an iPhone app that allows users to document their favorite foods at their favorite [...]

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Audible Audiobook Reader App Finally Out Of Beta On Android Devices [Audible For Android App Allows Audio Book Fans To Always Have One Close At Hand]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

There may not be any bigger name in the audio book business these days than Audible. Android users can now rejoice as this particular service is finally out of beta and full of features. The internet’s premiere digital audiobook provider [...]

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DataMan App For iPhone Alerts Users To Data Overage Risks [DataMan Allows iPhone Users To Better Track Their Data Use]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

One of the greatest things about having an iPad that actually has 3G capabilities is that you know that even if you are nowhere near a WiFi network you can still connect to the internet.

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Creative Zen Touch 2 Android PMP Makes The Required FCC Appearance [Creative's Zen Touch 2 PMP WIth Android FCC Appearance Suggests US Release Is Coming]

By on Thursday, 30. December 2010

A short while back we saw Creative introduce the Zen Touch 2 portable media player in Europe and given that announcement was rather quite and unexpected we remained unsure if or when it would come available elsewhere. Well, flash forward [...]

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