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What Will Happen To Apple Without Steve Jobs

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The news that Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, is taking a medical leave of absence has rocked the technology industry. This is Jobs second leave of absence, and that doesn’t bode well for the computing giant. There has been an outpouring of well wishes and support for Jobs. Apple has released a statement that Jobs will continue as [...]

Apple Takes Market Share From Dell, HP

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Industry Research Firms recently announced that although HP and Dell lost shares in the third quarter of 2010, Apple had actually shown double-digit desktop and notebook sales. Unfortunately, they moved down to the fifth spot in computer sales during the last quarter of 2010 in the US. Apple was placed behind Dell, HP, Acer and [...]

Microsoft Fights Apple On App Store Trademark

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Microsoft made an announcement today informing that they have asked US officials to stop Apple from putting the phrase ‘App Store’ under trademark. Apple made an application in 2008 for trademark rights to the phrase. The BBC news reported that Apple were requesting the rejection of the application from the US Patent and Trademark Office [...]

Polaroid Goes Gaga – Lady Gaga That Is

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On Thursday, January 6, Polaroid released their new product range at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The product range is a collaboration with Lady Gaga and is called ‘Grey Label by Haus of Gaga’. The release included the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, GL20 Camera Glasses and GL30 Instant Digital Camera. Lady Gaga [...]

AT&T Rebrands Its Network As 4G

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AT&T took advantage of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to announce some upgrades. Their HSPA+ network has gone 4G, plus their 4G LTE is due out sooner than previously expects, and they hope to launch a tablet with the Android Honeycomb OS in 2011. AT&T also announced that they would be working [...]

Nook Best Selling Product At Barnes & Noble

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The e-reader war was tipped to be a hot ticket during the holiday buying season and already producers are starting to toot their own horns. Amason’s Kindle 3 is being lauded as the company’s best selling item of all time by the online book-retail giant. But Amazon aren’t the only proud papas in the pack. [...]

New Amazon Patent Automatically Rejects Gifts

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Amazon has unleashed a new tool that will allow Amazon gift recipients to reject or exchange gifts from their site. The patented tool allows users to exchange gifts online without first receiving the gift. Dissatisfied recipients are able to select an alternative gift or choose to receive a gift card. The tool is designed in [...]

Amazon Kindle Android App Lets Users Shop Over 100 Magazines

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The Android revolution continues with this morning’s announcement from Amazon that its application for Android is the first Kindle device that will be able to purchase more than 100 news media, including papers and magazines. Newsweek and The New York Times are both onboard with the application. People who own the Kindle for Android will [...]

Groupon Continues Expansion While Waiting To Close Deal With Google

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Wednesday was a big day for the Groupon company, who announced that they are expanding into Silicon Valley and across Asia. Groupon is an online discount coupon company, based in Chicago. Recently there have been a slew of rumors about a Google takeover of the company. The deal would reportedly be worth $6 billion. The [...]

Facebook Starts Email Service To Compete With Google And Microsoft

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Facebook has announced that it is implementing an email option for its users. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook said that each user will get an “@facebook.com” email address which will allow users to send emails, texts and instant messages. Facebook’s email facility will be in direct competition with Google’s Gmail facility and with Microsoft and [...]