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10 reasons why I'm dumping the iPad for Samsung's Galaxy Tab
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch tablet that looks a lot like an overgrown Galaxy S phone, without the phone functionality. It debuted in the U.S. this month and will be available from all four major U.S. wireless carriers. (Note: Versions of the device sold outside the U.S. do have phone functionali...
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Apple to drop app downloads from site next month
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When Mac App Store launches Jan. 6, company will stop serving Web downloads Apple will pull all applications from its own Mac OS X download site on the same day that it launches the new Mac App Store early next month, according to reports. In an e-mail sent to registered Mac developers on Monday, Ron Oka...
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Windows Phone 7 Is Toast
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Microsoft's best work ever on a mobile operating system won't be enough: Windows Phone 7 is toast. Earlier, Microsoft revealed that phone manufacturers had shipped 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers over its first six weeks of availability. The number of phones purchased by consumer...
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So You Got an Amazon Kindle This Holiday Season: Now What?
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Assuming you’re like me, the first thing you’ll want to do is load your device with as many free books as possible. Amazon offers thousands of free e-books in the Kindle Store, which are divided into two sections: popular classics and rotating, limited-time offers. There are a number of other resour...
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Why Your Smartphone Will Replace Your Wallet
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The day when near field communication (NFC) will help replace plastic credit cards, coupons and loyalty program cards with a wave of a phone at a payment terminal has been long anticipated. Wireless NFC technology enables devices, including mobile phones and payment terminals, to communicate wi...
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Everything You Need To Know About Bump Charging And Inconsistent Battery Drain
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Climbing out of bed, about to start your day, you unplug your new smartphone from its wall charger and quickly check your email. You’ve left it plugged in overnight, and the battery gauge shows 100%. After a quick shower, you remember that you forgot to send your client a file last night. You pick up you...
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Android Smartphones Outrank iPhones in Top 30 Mobile Devices List
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The Android-versus-iPhone saga is likely to be ongoing for some time to come; however, every time we get a look at mobile OS stats, we see Android pulling ahead a little bit more. While a recent list of the top 30 mobile devices shows that all iOS devices together still outnumber Android devices by a sli...
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Buyer beware: Android Market policies are about to change
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Google's getting ready to roll out a long overdue overhaul of its Android Market -- but the upgrade isn't all good news. Google officially announced the plans for the revamped Market late Friday, just in time for this week's launch of the first Android Gingerbread phone. Most of the changes are cosme...
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iPhone jailbreaker set to bring Cydia to Mac OS X
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Cydia is somewhat of jailbreak equivalent of the App Store for iOS devices. It enables users to find and install open source packages as well as buy special modifications made for jailbroken phones—often with features not approved by Apple. Cydia creator Jay "saurik" Freeman has now an...
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Slate Wars: Tablet Takedown
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It has been nearly a year since the iPad launched, and manufacturers have been hard at work trying to catch up and compete with Apple's popular tablet device. The closest competitor so far is Samsung's Galaxy Tab--the company recently announced it had sold 1 million Tabs in less than two months. The f...
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Microsoft to Announce New Slates Aimed at the iPad
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A decade ago Bill Gates, founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, presented a new class of computing to the world: a tablet PC that offered a fully functional computer with the “intuitive aspects of pencil and paper.” Since then, Microsoft has struggled to gain traction with a slate-like...
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Microsoft to close KIN Studio
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The KIN series of devices have been nothing short of a colossal blunder for Microsoft . After being pulled from store shelves after dismal sales, and then reemerging several months later, Verizon and Microsoft are now sending out a heads up to KIN owners that KIN Studio will close on January 31, 2011....
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The android market is about to get a massive update
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The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant update to the Android Market client. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be rolling out a new Android Market client to all devices ru...
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Apple Pulls iOS Jailbreak Detection Tool
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Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone , iPod Touch or iPad has been modified so they c...
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Is the ExoPC the first decent Windows 7 tablet?
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For the same price as the iPad, you'll soon be able to get an 11-inch Windows 7 tablet. The ExoPC Slate has comparable storage to the iPad (32 or 64GB) but it also has a webcam, hardware-accelerated Flash (and Silverlight), handwriting recognition, fully accessible USB ports and an SD card slot – and o...
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MacBook Air Performs Poorly Compared With Similarly Priced Windows Laptops
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Recently, after testing two MacBook Air models running Windows 7, we published results that showed the thin and light Apple laptops outperformed most Windows-based netbooks and ultraportable notebooks. Hundreds of readers commented on the article, with many of the comments going something li...
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Protect Your Android Phone With Security Apps
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You back up data on your computer in case it crashes, and you might install LoJack on your car to help recover it in case someone steals it--so why shouldn't you protect your Android phone? Most people carry a lot of sensitive data on their phones. If someone steals your handset or if you happen to lose it...
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Pico Projector, Mobile DTV Possible on iPhone 5, Report Says
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It's Friday, so why not some speculation about what will be included in the iPhone 5? According to Ticonderoga Securities, two possibilities for next-generation smartphones like Apple's iPhone include mini embedded pico projectors and mobile DTV. Ticonderoga analysts on Friday wrapped up mee...
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Why you'll buy a two-screen laptop
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I predicted more than two years ago that dual-screen laptops would dominate the category within five years. Halfway to the deadline, Acer this week unveiled a workable and exciting two-screen laptop called the Acer Iconia. The Iconia is the first clamshell dual-screen notebook that I'm aware of f...
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Laptops Still Have a Role -- for Now
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In case you were worried by headlines that say more than 90 percent of users now access the Web more often using mobile devices than laptops or desktops -- we haven't hit the tipping point beyond which every IT system you build has to be mobile first and anything else second. The stories are based on the l...
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iOS hacks bring AirPlay to all apps and returns iPad orientation lock
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Not content to wait for Apple, the iOS jailbreak community has found a simple way to enable AirPlay video streaming for all apps. AirPlay, which launched last week with the public release of iOS 4.2.1, quickly attracted criticism after users discovered the much-hyped video streaming feature coul...
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Radio Station Apps: No Longer Welcome in the App Store
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Apple's become more relaxed about the iOS App Store recently, with policy revisions and the notable admission of Google Voice for iPhone, but that's not stopping Apple from rejecting app categories that it simply doesn't like. The latest victims are single-station radio players, according to a d...
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When Will We See a Chrome OS Device?
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If you had asked tech insiders earlier this year to predict the must-have gadgets for the holiday 2010 season, a few might have said a Chrome OS netbook. After all, in November 2009, Google said it would have a netbook running the Web-based OS in time for the holidays this year. But that was before the Ap...
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iOS 4.2 on the iPhone 4: Nice but not revolutionary
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If you're an iPhone user, you'll find the just-released iOS 4.2 a solid, mildly useful new system update. There's nothing earth-shaking here, and nothing as significant as the multitasking features and folders that iOS 4.2 adds to the iPad. Still, features such as Find My iPhone and the ability to s...
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Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy
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I’ve been playing with a Samsung Tab from Verizon Wireless since November 11th. I will share my impressions of the device in the coming days but in the interim, I wanted to let the world know about how crazy Verizon Wireless has made the monthly payment for data usage, and what other fees are lurking. Wh...
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webOS 2.0 coming to 'all' Palm devices in the coming months
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We're hoping he wasn't speaking out of turn here, but for what it's worth, Palm developer advocate Josh Marinacci has said on stage at webOS Developer Days today in New York that webOS 2.0 will be coming to "all" Palm devices in "the coming months." Now, we're going to go ahead an...
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Sony retires the cassette Walkman after 30 years
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After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April, according to IT Media. Once these units are...
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Zombie virus infecting phones in China, costs you $300,000 per day
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A virus masquerading as an antivirus application (how’s that for irony?) has been infecting countless mobile phones in China. The virus lets hackers take control of the phone who then spam the phone’s entire address with links that allow the virus to spread to even more phones. Is antivirus softwar...
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Windows Phone 7 sales underwhelm
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Windows Phone 7 went on sale on Monday of this week in the U.S. and the sales were not as strong as Microsoft may have hoped. According to reports by Thestreet, Microsoft sold 40,000 handsets in the first day sales in the U.S. through AT&T and T-Mobile. The numbers are based on a market research sour...
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Rumour: iOS 4.2 to be released Friday at 10AM PST
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After months of speculation and sneak-peeks, the latest iteration of Apple's iOS will be available for iDevices around the globe this Friday at 10AM PST, according to MacStories. Quoting ''an inside source'' at AT&T, the site claimed iOS 4.2 will be made available, along with iTunes 10.1, whi...
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