In our latest tablet Ratings, the 10.1-inch Google Nexus 10 rated as highly as the Apple iPad among Wi-Fi only models, becoming the first full-sized tablet to do so since the original iPad was introduced in 2010. At $400, the 16GB Nexus ...
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With Thanksgiving now just about two weeks away, it's no surprise that we're starting to see more Black Friday deals leaked. Today, thanks to the Black Friday website gottadeal.com, we got a preview of what one of the shopping holiday's big ...
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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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Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes yesterday. On January 9 at ...
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Unsatisfactory online grocery experiences-especially on special occasions-are a sure-fire way to undermine brand loyalty,writes Andrew Don. A typical suburban family home last Christmas Eve:presents around the tree,table laid in ...
Tags: Asda, online service, online grocer Ocado, UK
A new line of National Railway Museum puzzles have arrived at retail. Ravensburger has signed a deal with Science Museum Group Enterprises to produce the range. The first three 1,000-piece jigsaws for 2012 and 2013 are based on ...
Rakuten Play.com is preparing to shut down its retail business. The closure of the Jersey tax loophole last year has been blamed for the end of the online retailer as we know it. Play.com has confirmed it will become a ...
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Amazon will create 100 new jobs at its London-based global digital media development centre. The centre, which is located near The Barbican, opened in September and is home to the design and development teams for Pushbutton and ...
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Target Corp.said on Tuesday it will match on a year-round basis the prices found on the websites of key rivals Amazon.com Inc, Best Buy Co Inc , Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Toys R Us, its latest tactic to hold onto shoppers focused on price. ...
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Foxconn Technology Group is being investigated by authorities over allegations that some of its employees accepted bribes from suppliers. The Taiwan-based manufacturing giant,which builds Apple's iPhone,has asked law enforcement officials ...
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Asustek is aiming for the TV market with the introduction of an Internet streaming box called Qube, which will run on Google TV software. The box will enable streaming of movies and TV shows from Google Play, Netflix, Amazon and HBO, Asus ...
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IDG News Service - Panasonic introduced its 2013 TV lineup with a few whizz-bang features that look useful but others that seem a curious choice for the living room. On the useful side, 2013's update to Panasonic's My Home Screen ...
Tags: Panasonic, TVs, Screen technology, touch stylus, facial recognition
Ford has launched an open developer program for its in-car infotainment system at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, making it the first car maker in the world to enable software developers to create apps for its ...
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Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet running the company's upcoming tablet chip code-named Temash,which the company hopes will reverse a string of past failures and provide enough ammunition to compete with tablet chip ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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