IDC predicted Tuesday on Tuesday that the Tablet PC shipments with Android operating system whose sales may exceed iPad this year for the first time. Although iPad and iPhone shipments will continue to grow rapidly, the rival Samsung ...
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As Congress considers a law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes nationally, debate is heating up over the revenue threshold for triggering collections. The Marketplace Fairness Act, as it's named in both House and Senate ...
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Online is still the number one go-to destination for mums who are looking for pre-school toys. 58.3 per cent of parents surveyed by ToyNews say they buy their new toys using internet stores. However, one third of those say they also ...
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Recycled composite rail ties from AXION were recently reordered for use by Miami Dade Transit. With this second order, Miami Dade Transit is continuing to implement recycled composite ECOTRAX™ rail ties in its infrastructure, while ...
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Thanks to a winning combination of solid performance, lots of content, and affordable prices, Roku streaming media players have become a favorite choice of many staffers at Consumer Reports—including me. That's why we were especially ...
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Apple is the leading consumer cloud storage provider, beating out Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to a new survey. The survey of 2,300 consumers who regularly use the Internet was conducted in October by research firm Strategy ...
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BlackBerry's new operating system faces its first big test in the U.S. Friday when the first phone based on BlackBerry 10 goes on sale. The U.S. launch comes more than a month after the phone, called the Z10, went on sale in the U.K. Jan. ...
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Some sellers have raised the price of Office 2010's lowest-cost multi-license package after Microsoft discontinued retail sales of the suite. Giant online retailer Amazon.com, for example, now lists what Microsoft called the "Full ...
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The initial launch of Myth Labs headphones, which occurred in February, includes Myth's Genesis and Eclipse models. Myth Genesis speakers are lightweight, designed to bring the best out of lower-quality music sources including low-bitrate ...
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An industry coalition with backing from Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle has objected to Google's application for certain top-level domain strings. FairSearch.org said it has filed objections with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
A group led by Amazon's CEO has recovered the rocket engines that powered the NASA Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 1970s from deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of online retail giant Amazon.com, said his ...
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Amazon on Wednesday lowered the starting price of its large-screen 8.9-in. Kindle Fire HD tablet in the U.S. to $269 for the Wi-Fi version and $399 for the 4G version. The price cuts, from $299 for the Wi-Fi version and from $499 for the ...
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Samsung unveiled its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, in New York last night Further reading Galaxy S4 could see Samsung beat iPhone Samsung fails in bid to reverse Galaxy tablet injunction Amazon S3 passes one trillion object mark ...
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If you were bummed when Netflix split its hybrid streaming/disc-by-mail service into two separate (and higher-priced) offerings, here's something you may like: Redbox Instant, which combines unlimited streaming with one-day disc rentals via ...
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Counterfeit food robs Americans of $10 billion each year Californians lose 800,000 acre-feet of water to 305 minnows Golden rice battle only just beginning As we head into a new year, U.S. agriculture faces 2013 filled with opportunities ...
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