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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Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life. One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, ...
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Google is shutting down its Google Reader and seven other products and services, taking the total number of features or services shut since its "spring cleaning" began in 2011 to 70. The company said it needed to focus to take advantage ...
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Android head Andy Rubin is stepping aside, and that could mean big changes for Google's mobile platform and for its Chrome operating system. Google CEO Larry Page announced the move in a blog post on Wednesday, saying Rubin will remain ...
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Microsoft's two-pronged OS push into tablets -- Windows RT and Windows 8 -- confuses customers, and the company should focus on the more robust Windows 8, an IDC analyst said today. Tom Mainelli, IDC's research director for tablets, said ...
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TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the industry leader for interactive music and entertainment in 57,000 venues nationwide, enabled crowdsourced music at the 2013 frog SXSW Interactive Opening Party. Held at the Palmer Events Center in ...
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BlackBerry has received an order for one million Z10 smartphones, the largest single order in the company's history, significantly boosting shares in the firm which described the deal as a "tremendous vote of confidence." The ...
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Andy Rubin, the head of Android at Google - officially, senior vice president of mobile and digital content - is stepping down to be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who currently runs the company's Chrome web browser and Apps division. Rubin ...
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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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Clicking "install app" on a mobile device does not amount to personal data consent, according to EU privacy watchdog, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Much of this data is processed to provide a revenue stream, which the ...
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BlackBerry last week announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices. The new Secure Work Space for iOS and ...
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Samsung Electronics is readying a smartphone based on the Tizen operating system to be released in the second half of this year, it said Friday. It has already found a customer: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, plans to launch ...
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IDC released a report yesterday, increased its forecast on 2013 global tablet shipments growth rate by 10.7%, and expected that Android operating system would surpass iOS to become the dominant tablet operating systems. IDC forecasts that ...
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Microsoft later today will reverse a months-long practice in how Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) handles Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 8's and Windows RT's Modern user interfaces. The change will be pushed to users along with the March ...
Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11% for 2013 and said Android would supplant Apple's iOS as the dominant operating system this year. "The shift to ...