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Staples stores get Amazon’s Kindle this fall

Published on: 1st September, 2010

On August 31, 2010, Staples declared that it would be the second US retailer to sell the third-generation of Kindle. The office store will bring the six-inch Wi-Fi and 3G variants of the Kindle, but also the Kindle DX. The company plans to stock the hardware too and offer users a chance to try the [...]

Gartner Research shows Mac sales at 24 percent in US, more than industry average

Published on: 22nd July, 2010

A report recently published by Gartner Research says that US Mac sales in the second quarter have reached 24 percent, which means 1.7 million units. This is outpacing the average of the industry. Gartner analysis places the domestic market share of Apple at 9.8 percent, which is higher than the 8.8 percent estimated by IDC.
Both [...]

Child-sensing remote from Intel and Arizona State

Published on: 14th July, 2010

Remote controls for TVs which can detect the user and customize access to content according to necessities may be possible thanks to a project leaded by Magdiel Galan at the Arizona State University, together with several colleagues at Intel Labs. Researchers have used volunteers to determine how a certain individual holds the specially designed remote, [...]

Sprint’s 4G now available to seven cities across the USA

Published on: 14th July, 2010

Sprint’s 4G mobile data service has now been brought to seven more cities around the world: Rochester and Syracuse in New York, Merced and Visalia in California, Eugene in Oregon, but also Tri-Cities and Yakima in Washington. The high-speed service from Sprint is currently available in 43 markets, with even more launches; this includes cities [...]

New Burger King restaurant in Japan, with Sound Spot booths

Published on: 14th July, 2010

The newest Japanese Burger King restaurant, the 32nd of this type, has new luxury commodities for audiophiles. Box-like seating made for two persons contains a dock for a portable music device like an iPhone, iPod or others, as well as an overhead, umbrella-like speaker which allows diners to listen music of their own. Seating for [...]

BlackBerry and iPhone lost market share in favor of Android this spring

Published on: 14th July, 2010

According to comScore, both Apple and Research in Motion lost share on smartphone market in favor to the Android platform of Google this spring. Starting with February and ending in May, the iPhone has lost one point to hit exactly 24.4 percent of share on the United States market. Meantime, the BlackBerry lost 0.4 points [...]

Microsoft’s page curl patent supposed to hurt iBooks, e-reader applications

Published on: 14th July, 2010

A patent has been recently filed by Microsoft and is supposed to cause problems for e-reader applications and Apple’s iBooks especially. The patent refers to the “virtual page return” allowing readers to turn pages in a natural way, by touching one side of the e-book and dragging it so that the page curls to the [...]

AT&T motivates banning of non-Market Android applications is for security

Published on: 7th July, 2010

Banning of non-Market Android applications has been defended by AT&T on the Android promo page of the company. The carrier’s argument was that the policy would make developers accountable and this way the applications proved to be malicious or presenting other risks could be easily pulled. It argued that the environment dedicated to development was [...]

Chrome web use overtakes Safari in the USA

Published on: 2nd July, 2010

According to some recent, new data from StatCounter, for the first time in the USA, Chrome has overtaken Safari. Currently, Google has 8.97 percent of the web traffic, while Apple has 8.88 percent. Internet Explorer, as well as Firefox were flat at 52 percent and 28.45 percent each.
The difference seems to be impressive, mostly due [...]

US Cellular detailed Samsung’s Acclaim, Android-based

Published on: 2nd July, 2010

A brief tease last week preceded US Cellular’s detailed presentation of the Samsung Acclaim, the company’s first Android phone. Aiming at the mainstream, the QWERTY slider has a 480×320 screen and features a three-megapixel camera as well. It is powered by Android 2.1 and has as an option to attach a low $15 extra to [...]

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