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In June, Quantum International (OTC: QUAN) (OTC Pink: QUAN) made the bold prediction that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) would ship 300 million tablets in 2013. This figure seemed to have been diminished the moment Apple announced its June quarter sales results. iPad sales fell to 14.6 million units versus...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) handsets may be popular throughout Canada and other parts of the world, but the company is struggling in the United States. After examining a three-month period (which ended in June 2013), Kantar Worldpanel discovered BlackBerry's market share dropped to 1.1 percent....

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been rumored to release a five-inch iPhone for most of the year, but the company has yet to confirm any such details. While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gradually increasing the size of its displays, its newest phone is limited to 4.5 inches. Its largest phone, the Lumia 625, has...

Sales of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad dropped to 14.6 million units during Q2 2013, resulting in a 25 percent decline from the previous quarter. The sales slump caused Apple's market share to drop to 35 percent -- the lowest ever since the iPad was introduced more than three years ago. According...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just updated its Chrome smartphone browser again – this time for iOS devices, according to MacWorld. The new and updated features, while not groundbreaking, are significant. They include an accessible history, improved voice search, upgraded text-to-speech, and a full...

Coinciding with the hiring of former Hulu exec., Pete Distad, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is said to be closing in on a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) to give Time Warner subscribers access to cable channels via Apple TV. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources with “knowledge of the...

The Cupertino, California-based tech giant has persuaded the Los Angeles Unified School District to purchase iPads for all of its campuses. According to the LA Times, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will earn $30 million for the deal, which consists of iPads that will be sold for $678 each. This is...

Love them or hate them, tablet computers are here to stay. With over 100 million units sold in under three years, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has become a cultural icon and its domestic competition has established itself as well: Words like "Kindle Fire" and "Nook" have entered the American...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) could ship an extremely large number of smartphones this year. The ailing smartphone maker -- which fell to third place after Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platform debuted -- has reportedly experienced a fair amount of growth this...

As reported by the Mac Observer, tablet sales are expected to surpass those of laptops this year, and tablet sales will topple all PC shipments by 2015. Over 229 million tablets are expected to be sold in 2013, up from 144.5 million in 2012. A transition of this nature means technology firms...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest operating system is expected to pop up in five to eight percent of all tablets produced this year, providing Windows 8 with another notable boost. According to DigiTimes, roughly 10 million to 20 million new tablets are likely to use Windows 8 in 2013. Many...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) popular OS continued to dominate as smart device (notebooks, tablets and smartphone) shipments rose 37.4 percent during the first quarter of 2013. According to independent analyst firm Canalys, total smart device shipments reached 308.7 million units. Android led the pack...

Facebook Home (NASDAQ: FB) has officially crossed the 500,000 installations mark. According to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) download page for the new app, the installations fall somewhere between 500k and one million. This is significantly lower than the download estimate from Global Equities Research...