Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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Amazon.ca today announced that the new family of Kindle e-readers is now available to customers in Canada. The all-new top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever built with 62% more pixels and 25% increased ...
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Before the advent of digital reading, a writer’s work often had to be shortened to fit into a magazine article or drawn out to deliver the "heft" required for a print book. Amazon EU today announced the launch of the Kindle Singles ...
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Felix, a new technology accessories brand, serves up consumer electronics accessories with product designs that blend functionality and personality. The company’s first products, TwoHands and MonkeyDo, target iPad, e-reader and ...
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MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a global industry organization with more than 150 member‐companies and partners, today announced a micro‐electromechanical systems (MEMS) conference track at the 2013 International CES. Featuring a ...
New TV technology unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show Pic: Supplied Source: The Australian IN terms of new technology, the world’s largest consumer technology show in Las Vegas this year was mainly about TV: new ...
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Is a 32-inch Apex-brand TV priced at $147 enough to get you into a store on Thanksgiving evening? Target hopes so, as that television is one of several doorbuster specials it will offer to those willing to shop on Thanksgiving, beginning at ...
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More Americans read e-books in the last year, with 23% of those ages 16 and over going digital, compared to 16% in the previous survey for the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which released its latest results on e-book readership ...
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PC World - Amazon has scheduled a press conference for Sept. 6, suggesting that new Kindle e-readers and tablets are nearly here. The event is set for 10:30 a.m. Pacific time in Santa Monica, Calif., but no other information was given. ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft said Monday that two more companies had signed patent agreements covering their Android and Chrome devices,under the company's IP(intellectual property)licensing program that already has more than 1,100 licensing ...
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Tablets are hot-- so hot that IDC just bumped up its global market forecast for the tablet market for 2012 and beyond. The proliferation of Android tablets of various sizes, the trend toward lower prices and the launch of the Apple iPad ...
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Reports of the drastic decline of e-readers amidst an explosion in multi-use tablets re-ignited a passionate debate in technology: Is a single-purpose device better and worth the cost, compared to a multi-function device? "I love my ...
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Amazon.com, a latecomer to Japan's e-reader market, is slashing its Kindle prices in the country before it has shipped a single device. Just two weeks after announcing it would launch its first Japanese-language e-reader, the company cut ...
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Springbok Casino, South Africa's premier online gaming portal, just announced an iPod nano giveaway. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, June 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Springbok Casino, South Africa's premier online gaming portal, just ...
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have finalized the creation of a joint venture that will deliver e-reading applications, and the new company will be called Nook Media LLC, the book seller said on Thursday. Previously called NewCo, the joint ...
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