Monday 30 May 2011

Microsoft's Mobile Cash Cow is Android . . . Not Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft's Mobile Cash Cow is Android . . . Not Windows Phone 7 Analysis: Microsoft may be spending big bucks on Windows Phone 7 development, but the big payoff is from Android, it turns out.
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Samsung Demands Next iPhone, iPad Apple's patent lawsuit seeking Samsung's next product plans is met with a similar request.
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PlayStation 4: Not Forgotten, But Not Soon Analysis: Sony stays on schedule by shipping the Playstation 4 within the next few years, while supporting the Playstation 3 until 2016 or later.
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Apple Jockeys to Boost iPad 2 Production Apple has reportedly engaged a new backlight module supplier in order to boost production of the iPad 2.
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ARM Servers Still 'Several Years' Away, its President Says The president of ARM Holdings has sought to temper the expectations around ARM-based servers, saying those systems might not ship in volume before 2015.
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Google Yanks Game Mimics from Android Market Several popular video game emulators were bounced without warning from the Android Market.
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion 'Nearly Ready' The next generation of Mac OS X, Lion, is nearly ready for a full launch and is being tested internally at Apple, according to reports.
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Can the iPad and iPhone Rescue the Cloud? Analysis: The truth is that Apple pulls in four times as much from the App Store as Amazon.com does from AWS.
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Linaro: Now a Year Old, the Linux Effort Begins to Deliver Evaluation builds, a low-cost ARM development board and a new partner program promise to help speed embedded-Linux products to market.
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Kobo, Nook Newcomers vs. Kindle: Chart Barnes & Noble and Kobo are getting into the e-reader game with a new breed of touchscreen e-book readers, set for release in June.
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Nvidia Shows Tablet Running Quad-core Tegra Chip Nvidia has shown a prototype tablet computer running a four-core version of its Tegra processor and said products based on the new chip will go on sale starting...
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China Censors Web to Curb Inner Mongolia Protests China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to clamp down on protests that broke out last...
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Asus' Padfone Combines Smartphone With Tablet Dock Asus demonstrated its combination smartphone and tablet device called the Padfone at the Computex trade show
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ViewSonic Shows Tablet Using Intel's New Atom Chip ViewSonic unveiled a 10-inch tablet running both Android and Windows on Intel's newest Atom processor, Oak Trail, at the Computex trade show.
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Hackers Deface PBS Site, Promise More Lulz Hackers say they were retaliating against PBS for its reporting on Wikileaks.
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Asus Demos Phone-tablet Combo, Meego Netbook Taiwan's Asustek Computer has previewed a smartphone-tablet PC combo device that seeks to bring together the strengths of both devices without completely...
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Day 30: What I Learned from Spending 30 Days With...Google Docs Today marks the end of the 30 Days With...Google Docs project. Let's take a look at what I've learned and what comes next.
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Study: Friends Hard to Keep Up with on Twitter, Facebook A study by researchers at Indiana University pegs the maximum number of friends a user can truly keep in contact with on sites like Twitter and Facebook at roughly 150 people.
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HTC Desire HD Hacked To Run Ubuntu Natively HTC Desire HD gets a new lease of life running Ubuntu instead of Android.
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What Your Wireless Carrier Knows About You Operators can tell a lot about the devices, apps, and content you use. But they're far more interested in macro-level trends that show shifts in overall usage patterns as mobile broadband use continues to increase.
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Microsoft's Mobile Cash Cow is Android . . . Not Windows Phone 7 Analysis: Microsoft may be spending big bucks on Windows Phone 7 development, but the big payoff is from Android, it turns out.
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Samsung Demands Next iPhone, iPad Apple's patent lawsuit seeking Samsung's next product plans is met with a similar request.
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