With the BlackBerry Q10 qwerty smartphone coming to the U.S. market in late May, it's fair to ask: How many customers will want to buy it? The BlackBerry Q10 has a physical keyboard that is still preferred by many Blackberry users. ...
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Use of sports apps by members of the Arbitron Mobile smartphone panel has been climbing steadily since their post-Super Bowl, mid-winter doldrums, thanks to the NCAA Tournament and opening days of the regular season of Major League ...
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Eight years after the first Xbox 360 units shipped, Microsoft will finally pull the curtains off its long-awaited successor on May 21. The company is holding a press event at 10 a.m. Pacific Time that day that will be live-streamed on the ...
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"THE toy industry is dead." That's the sort of statement that catches your attention, but I can't claim the credit for it. It was written by Richard Gottlieb, a highly respected toy industry analyst over in the States. Gottlieb's theory ...
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Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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THE cIn Motion is a successful marriage of the modern touch-screen smartphone and the iconic BlackBerry keyboard. On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that ...
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Jumbo Games MD Gray Richmond raised £2,000 at the London Marathon. He undertook the challenge on Sunday, April 21st to raise money and awareness for the MS Trust. Richmond said: "It was definitely gruelling, but the incredible ...
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A small Taiwanese-owned toy firm based in Thailand hopes to launch its products in the UK. Kiddy Kiddo specialises in manufacturing educational board games and books, with several products aimed at pre-schoolers. It has been operating ...
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How important are toys to Argos? What are your ambitions in this sector? Argos is the UK's number one toy retailer (by value) and toys is an incredibly important category to our business. Many people will remember flicking through the ...
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The smash Beyblade property is spinning back to toy retail. The collector's edition of Nintendo 3DS video game Beyblade: Evolution will include an exclusive, six-piece Wing Pegasus 90WF toy previously unavailable outside of Japan. ...
The UK Games Expo is now the main event that hobby game publishers think of when reaching their audience, say organisers. The seventh annual show runs from May 24th to 26th at the Hilton Metropole, NEC Birmingham, and trade space has ...
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Porsche has signed tennis star and glamour girl Maria Sharapova as a brand ambassador for the next three years. The partnership will see the 26-year-old Russian ace play a leading role in the German sports car brand’s global ...
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More than 5,000 brands, characters and images will be available for UK visitors to Licensing Expo to check out in June, with organiser Advanstar saying it will be well worth the trip for toy companies. Almost 350 exhibitors have signed up ...
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 has officially landed in the UAE, following an exclusive press evening last night at the Burj Khalifa, and will be available to consumers from April 27. Samsung's Head of Telecommunications Group, Hayssam Yassine, ...
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Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the ...
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