The U.S Department of State has withdrawn plans to place a $16.5 million order on Amazon.com for its Kindle Touch devices along with content management, and logistics, stating that it intends to conduct additional market research and ...
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Smartphone and tablet users prefer using Wi-Fi over cellular connections, and consider Wi-Fi cheaper, faster, easier to use, more reliable and, even, slightly more secure than cellular. These attitudes, reflected in an online survey in ...
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Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by 27 percent year on year. The US$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of $63 million a year earlier. Net sales ...
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An Apple iPad with a smaller screen, if released, could create tough decisions for buyers and slow the momentum of the current 9.7-in. iPad and a number of Android devices with 7-in. and 8-in. screens, analysts said on Thursday. ...
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Analysts are sounding a proverbial death knell for e-readers,which have declined 36%in 2012 as buyers turned instead to multi-use tablets. Both IHS Suppli and IDC recently issued dire warnings,if not obituaries,for e-readers.IHS said ...
Announcing its long-awaited assault on the crowded tablet market,Amazon unveiled three new Kindle Fire machines today,two of which will be available in the UK. During the presentation in California,Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said,"We want to ...
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BrainMatriX, a leading provider of interactive self-study software, has launched eReviewBook apps for Amazon Kindle devices. These programs are specifically designed to help students study for standardized tests, including the SAT, ACT, ...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the"Flexible Display Market:Global Analysis&Forecast(2012-2017)-By Application(Smartphone,Tablet,e-reader,Laptop,TV,Smartcard,Wearable ...
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One Laptop Per Child has cancelled plans to release its XO-3 tablet,although technology from that project could still be used in other products,OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. "The XO-3 is by no means gone.It may emerge in its ...
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Amazon made a net loss in the third quarter,its first loss in nine years,even as revenue increased by 27%year on year. The$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of$63 million a year earlier.Net sales grew to$13.8 ...
Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. It a statement Wednesday, the company ...
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The text on Amazon's newest Kindle reads top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The massive online retailer announced its first Japanese-language e-reader on Wednesday, a version of its Kindle Paperwhite that will go on sale in mid-November. ...
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The global flexible display market has been forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45.1% over the next five years, to be worth a value of $3,298 million by 2017. Flexible display is a thin, rollable display used ...
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Amazon on Thursday heated up the tablet competition with the introduction of new Kindle Fire HD tablets, including a model with LTE capabilities and another model with an 8.9-inch screen that can display images at a resolution of ...
Amazon is expected to announce one or more new models in its Kindle Fire range later today,at an event in Santa Monica,California. The conference will start at 10.30am PST(6.30pm UK time),and while Amazon has not directly admitted what it ...
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