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For a product that never got out of Microsoft’s labs, Courier, the two-screen concept tablet, has certainly been in the news this week.
On Tuesday, an iPad app called Taposé — which tries to realize the Courier dream which …
After months of growing scrutiny over its labor practices, Apple has agreed to implement reforms following an independent audit that discovered major violations in the sprawling Chinese factories that produce iPhones and iPads.
via Apple Agrees to Labor Reforms After ‘Serious’ Foxconn Violations | Business | TIME.com.
Here we go again: There’s a new next-PlayStation rumor out, and like most early-days scuttlebutt, it’s full of stuff no one cares about (or ought to, anyway), like the system’s name. “Orbis.” There you go, look it up if you must. …
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Two months ago, when RIM CTO Thorsten Heins was named as the company’s new CEO, it was easy to be skeptical about his chances of turning around the ailing BlackBerry maker. In fact, it was hard to be anything but skeptical. In …
When Thorsten Heins took over as CEO of Research in Motion at the start of 2012, the BlackBerry phone maker seemed very much in denial about its troubles.
Not anymore. Speaking to investors following another dismal quarter, …
Google Maps has always given great directions. Too bad it lived in a fantasy world where the roads were always clear and you could zip down the highways without another car in sight.
In the real world, I would always factor in …
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Best Buy, the company that dominates consumer-electronics retailing in the U.S., isn’t doing so well at the moment. As CNET’s Larry Dignan writes, it reported a $1.7 billion loss for its fourth quarter, and is responding with a …
Today, the White House is announcing that it’s spending $200 million on its “Big Data” initiative, which aims to “advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge …
Cue the jokes about the disposable nature of social media: A new service called “S—ter” (the actual name is usually displayed in full, adult-level parlance) is offering to print your Twitter feed on a roll of toilet …
Apple’s decided you really, really want one of its new 13.3-inch MacBook Pros — more so than one of its new 15-inch models, and so it’s ordered many more of the former than the latter as it ramps up production for a …
Today only, Amazon is selling refurbished 7-inch Kindle Fire tablets for $139. That’s a good deal considering new versions cost $199, and these refurbished units carry the same one-year warranty as the new models.
Does that iPad game you’re thinking about downloading support the latest model’s 2048-by-1536 pixel high-definition display? Here’s a list of 10 that do.