Amazon's Price Check Lets You Scan, Snap, Speak to Search

From PC World: It's the holiday season once again, and you know what that means: shopping, shopping, and...shopping. How do you make sure you get the best prices on all those presents you're buying? Amazon's new Price Check app for the iPhone and iPod touch can help.

The idea behind...

Analyst: 3.3 million RIM PlayBooks by Feb. 2012?

From CNET News.com: Research In Motion's PlayBook is garnering some enterprise and analyst attention as expectations steadily rise for the tablet.

Never mind that few folks have really played with the tablet, analysts have to model something for their spreadsheets and projections...

After 5 years, Xbox 360 still a big winner

From CNET News.com: If there's one thing that I recall more than any other from "Zero Hour," the 30-hour Xbox 360 launch event on November 20 and 21, 2005, it was the sight of dozens of gamers literally passed out on beanbags, their controllers still in their hands.

Despite...

Verizon Calls For Greater Antitrust Scrutiny for OS Makers

From DailyTech: Tom Tauke, Verizon Communication Inc.'s executive vice president of public affairs, policy and communications, speaking at a panel called "Rewriting the Telecom Act: Has the Time Come?" at the Federalist Society's National Conference in Washington complained that the...

Court Documents Shed New Light on Defective Dell PCs

From DailyTech: Dell has been haunted by issues and allegations surrounding the sale of defective OptiPlex Desktop PCs between 2003 and 2005. The systems sold were failing at very high rates and it was later determined that the reason for the wide spread failures was due to faulty...

More Private Investors Lose Interest in Seagate - Rumours

From X-bit Labs: The interest of private investors towards Seagate Technology is getting lower as more firms withdraw from negotiations. Apparently, private equity firms are not too interested in acquiring the world's second largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs) and then improve...

iPhone 4 trumps Android rivals in customer satisfaction

From InfoWorld: Apple's iPhone continues to dominate rival smartphones in customer satisfaction, a research firm said today.

A survey completed in early November of more than 1,200 U.S. consumers who had purchased a smartphone in the past six months found that Apple led all...

Wal-Mart Steps Into China's E-commerce Market

From PC World: Wal-Mart is testing the waters of China's e-commerce market by launching an online store for its Sam's Club warehouse chain in the country.

The online store is still in beta testing and is meant for Sam's Club members based in Shenzhen, a city of more than 8.9 million...

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