How the Wii's successor impacts the console business

From CNET News.com: One of the most potentially damaging things a consumer electronics company can do to one of its existing products is confirm its replacement. So when Nintendo announced yesterday that its Wii "successor" would launch next year, the obvious question was how would...

Sony Announces Dual-screen Tablet

From DailyTech: We saw the potential of a dual-screen Android smartphone in the Kyocera Echo. Now, Sony is hoping to harness that potential and differentiate itself in the tablet market.

Today, Sony announced two different models of the upcoming "Sony Tablet." The first, codenamed...

Jobs Claims That Apple Don't Track Customers, Droids Do

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is fond of describing his sleek electronic gadgets-cum-fashion statements as "magical". This week he tried to work a bit of "magic" on the public in the face of major tracking concerns.

Tracking concerns? What tracking concerns...

Google Android Will Outpace Apple iOS on Tablets - CEO of Dell

From X-bit Labs: At present Apple iPad commands roughly 80% of the media tablets market, but in the next couple of years Google Android operating system will become the leading operating system on tablets, believes Michael Dell, the head of Dell.

"Tablets are not really new, in the...

AMD Sells Three Million Fusion Chips in Q1

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices managed to ship three million Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) in Q1 2011, the firm said. The number represented about 50% of all processors for mobile systems shipped by the company, AMD said.

"We tripled [Fusion] unit shipments...

Firefox 4 tops 100M downloads but fails to gain on IE

From InfoWorld: In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend.

But statistics from one Web analytics company showed that Firefox 4's introduction has done nothing to boost Mozilla's overall share of the browser...

Nook Color Update Sends E-Reader Wars into Overdrive

From PC World: An update to Barnes & Noble's Nook Color adds Android 2.2, an app store and Adobe Flash, giving people the cheap Android tablet they've always wanted.

Amazon, your move.

The e-reader wars have been quiet ever since Amazon's Kindle won the pricing battle against the...

Sony: We're 'rebuilding' PlayStation Network

From CNET News.com: Sony's PlayStation Network is still down, and there's no telling when it might come back up.

Over the weekend, Sony Computer Entertainment America's senior director of corporate communications and social media, Patrick Seybold, said that his company is currently...

Lenovo ThinkPad Android Tablet Leaks

From DailyTech: The tablet deluge continues. Thanks to the former Engadget editors who currently run ThisIsMyNextSite, the cat is out of the bag on the upcoming Honeycomb-based Lenovo ThinkPad tablet.

TIMNS got their hands on what appears to be an internal Lenovo-training PowerPoint...

Apple Cloud Music Platform Launch Imminent

From DailyTech: Anonymous sources close to Apple have reported that the consumer electronics giant has finished its online music storage "locker" and is planning to launch it before Google releases its own version of cloud storage.

Apple's online music storage system will allow...

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