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From DailyTech: While 2010 was a blockbuster year for smartphone sales across the globe (the market grew by 72 percent last year), 2011 so far looks to be a continuation of the trend. Yesterday, research firm IDC reported that the smartphone market grew 79.7 percent in the first... |
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From DailyTech: Sprint and Motorola have announced that they are adding a pair of new Android smartphones to the lineup. One of the new smartphone is the Motorola Titanium and it looks more like a Blackberry than your typical Android smartphone. The Titanium has a QWERTY keyboard on... |
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From X-bit Labs: Even though the demand for personal computers softened in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, shipments of central processing units (CPUs) actually increased year-over-year, according to new data from IDC. Not only microprocessor market grew... |
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From X-bit Labs: Acer Group, one of the largest PC suppliers in the world and the No. 1 maker of netbooks, said that even though sales of netbooks collapsed in the first quarter, the category has not died and will continue to co-exist with notebooks. Specifically, the company noted... |
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From InfoWorld: Microsoft's popular free antivirus program Security Essentials has put in a mediocre showing in the latest quarterly tests from German test outfit AV-Test.org, finishing second to the bottom out of 22 products. In Q1 2011 Security Essentials 2.0 (MSE) performed well... |
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From PC World: Market research firm Canalys has given Google's Android OS a 35 percent share of the smartphone market for the first quarter of 2011. Nokia had a share of 24 percent, with iOS on 19 percent. Compared to Canalys' figures for the fourth quarter of 2010 Apple had... |
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From CNET News.com: This isn't how products are typically announced, but thanks to a couple of sentences in an SEC filing, word is out that Barnes & Noble plans to release a new e-reader later this month. Late yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that according to the filing... |
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From DailyTech: From games to business, Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) Mac App Store follows in the footsteps of such Windows PC software markets as Valve Corp.'s STEAM engine (now available on Macs), making the push to digital distribution. Despite an initial catalog of 1,000 apps and one... |
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From DailyTech: While the sound of tablets' soaring popularity has been likened to a death rattle for PC devices -- particularly the netbook -- PC giant Acer has held firm in its stance that it would not phase out netbooks in favor of tablets. But with the resignation of longtime CEO... |
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