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Google, Intel Team Up For New Chromebooks (GOOG, INTC)
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 3:28pm | 473Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) have teamed up build better Chromebooks. The search engine giant announced that Intel's fourth-generation Core i processors -- commonly known as Haswell -- will be featured in a number of new machines. In a post on Google's official Chrome blog,...
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Amazon Reduces Kindle Fire HD Price After Losing Market Share (AMZN)
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 11:15am | 638Read More...During the second quarter of 2012, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) celebrated an important win against its competitors. The online retail giant overtook Acer, Asus and many others to become the third most successful tablet manufacturer. According to IDC, Amazon gained five percent of the market after...
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New Touch Screen Notebooks Could Suffer As Discounts Rise For Older PCs
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 10:52am | 460Read More...Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) may be getting rave reviews for its Haswell-based notebooks, but consumers and retailers could be too distracted to notice. According to DigiTimes, most channel retailers had expected the penetration of touch screen notebooks (specifically those using Haswell) to fall within...
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New Chromebooks and Androidbooks Coming Soon
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 12:46pm | 523Read More...Chromebook manufacturers are gearing up for their next round of upgrades. According to DigiTimes, Acer will release a new 11.6-inch model in July. The new machine is expected to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, the C7, and will be geared toward students. Acer's new Chromebook is set to...
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Apple Expected to Ship 10 Times More Tablets than Google in 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 8:51am | 472Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) endured some criticism last month after rumors surfaced that the company may ship 12 percent fewer iPads than previously anticipated. Instead of shipping 60 million full-size iPads and 40 million iPad Mini units, the company is now rumored to ship 55 million iPad Mini units...
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How Big Will Smartphones Get?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 2:05pm | 395Read More...While Samsung, LG and other manufacturers attempt to make their phones as big as possible, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is hanging onto the four-inch format. BlackBerry's (NASDAQ: BBRY) new phone, the Z10, is only slightly bigger at 4.2 inches. Thus far, Samsung has pushed the boundaries of smartphone...
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Can a $99 Tablet Take Down the iPad Mini?
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 2:54pm | 523Read More...For most individuals, Santa brought a cornucopia of electronics, gift cards and items to exchange or return. Tech bloggers found an extra surprise in their stockings: reports of another iPad upgrade and an Acer tablet priced at $99. The products sound promising -- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will...
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Hewlett-Packard Raised Notebook Shipments in November
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 11:30am | 528Read More...After enduring an overall decline of 16.4 percent during the third quarter, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) increased notebook shipments slightly in November. According to DigiTimes, the top five notebook brands experienced a combined one month drop of four percent. Asus, which recently released a...
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Nexus 7 Sales Grow Monthly, Encroaching on Apple's Territory
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 3:09pm | 306Read More...Asus, the manufacturer behind Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) first tablet, has provided a few hints regarding the overall success of the Nexus 7. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Asus CFO David Chang said that Google is now selling close to one million tablets per month. "At the beginning,...
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One Feature Apple's MacBook Will Never Have
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 1:33pm | 387Read More...From additional RAM and solid state drives to Retina Displays and thinner designs, the MacBook gets better with every evolution. But there is one feature Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will not add to future iterations of the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro: three screens. Image Source: Synamatiq Rumors...
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Is Microsoft Helping HTC File for Bankruptcy to Win the Fight Against Apple's iPad?
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 1:01pm | 662Read More...Microsoft's desire to rule the tablet market has inspired the company to make an unlikely move: it has banned HTC from joining the Windows 8 tablet party. This, according to Bloomberg, can be blamed on a wide variety of things, including HTC's lackluster sales figures (its devices are anything but...
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Google's Long-Awaited iPad-Killer Finally Revealed?
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 8:41am | 413Read More...The first Google-branded tablet is reportedly on its way, and it's coming from a very familiar manufacturer. DigiTimes, everyone's favorite source for inflated Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) rumors, is reporting that the Android maker has teamed up with Asus to produce a seven-inch "tablet PC" that will...
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Nvidia: The Mobile Company
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 5:17am | 548Read More...While investors focus on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Samsung, and HTC for trends and directions on the mobile market, they often overlook the semiconductor companies which enable the functioning of mobile devices. The semiconductor company that got most of the...
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Are GameStop's Tablets a Joke, a Success, or So Bad They Aren't Worth Mentioning?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 9:08am | 925Read More...More importantly, should Apple be worried about GameStop's entry into the tablet market? The simple answer: NO! Despite the promise of a store-branded device, GameStop (NYSE: GME) has chosen to launch a series of generic tablets without any modifications. These devices include the Samsung Galaxy...
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Asus Zenbook Poses First Real Threat to MacBook Air
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:40am | 239Read More...Apple's dominance will finally be tested. With the simple question, “Do you believe in love at first sight?” Asus has launched its first foray into the so-called ultrabook category of laptops: the Zenbook. It's thin, it's sleek, and it might very well be one of the best laptops released this year...
