IDC said on Friday that Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five device makers, and illustrating that demand was “muted at best”. “There is no question that ...
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Despite declines in its coal volumes, Kansas City Southern swung to a fourth quarter and year-end profit, partly on growth in shipments of crude oil and frack sand, executives of the railroad said Tuesday. "The growth in crude and ...
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Growth trends of the (source: Industry Data, Steme Agee Estimates) According to foreign media reports, the investment firm Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu published an Investment Report on Monday, pointing out that the strong demand for ...
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As we get closer to Black Friday shopping, Amazon is rolling out some additional TV deals—and this time there are some specials on major-brand models, including Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, and Vizio. In a previous post, we noted ...
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Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
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Computerworld-Apple today unveiled the iPad Mini,a smaller tablet starting at$329 that features a 7.9-in.1024-x-768-pixel display and can run all existing iPad software without modification. The company also revamped the 9.7-in ...
Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
Computerworld-The new iPad Mini costs Apple just under$200 in materials and manufacturing,an analyst said today,putting an exclamation point on the company's devotion to high profit margins. IHS iSuppli,which regularly tears apart ...
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The first teardown of an iPad Mini showed few surprises, but the team that took apart Apple's new smaller tablet said it was "extremely difficult" for do-it-yourselfers to repair. iFixit.com, which regularly rips apart devices sold by ...
Tehran Times cited Mr Ahmad Alirezabeigi Iran's East Azarbaijan Province's governor general as saying that Iran and Armenia have set the target of USD 3 billion in their annual bilateral trade. The report said that on December ...
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New Finnish Design Scenarios – A Story about what Happened in the Future will be held in the Meatpacking District in May 2011 during the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. SCENARIOS will offer an ...
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Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Most experts have estimated the iPad Mini's ...
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Here's how the iPad Mini's announced tech specs stack up against popular 7-inch tablets from Google and Amazon. (Of course, while the specs are important, there's more to a tablet than a data sheet. Computerworld will have a hands-on review ...
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Even before Apple sent invitations for the Tuesday launch event where it will likely unveil a smaller iPad, consumers were unloading their old tablets in increasing numbers so they can trade up to Apple's latest, according to gadget ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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