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“Its higher price indicates to me that it is superior, and that not everyone will be able to afford it, which only makes me want to possess it more,” said Tim Sturges, owner of the old device, which he obtained 18 months ago when it was still the new device. “I feel a strong ...
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“Tell me why you aren’t going to be the next Friendster.”
– Venture capitalist David L. Sze’s 2006 litmus test for entrepreneurs who claimed to have the next MySpace.
Yes it does. And what’s more, the social networking pioneer will reportedly be sold to a buyer in Asia by the ...
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The male ego is a fragile thing. The last thing you want is a phone that challenges it with an effeminate form factor and pantywaist performance specs. As a guy, you want a phone that doesn’t emasculate you every time you whip it out. Otherwise, you might become insecure and resentful.
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Looks like Cisco’s proposed acquisition of Tandberg will move ahead as planned — though perhaps not as smoothly as the networking giant had hoped. In a filing with the Oslo stock exchange today, Tandberg said 91.1 percent of its shares and voting rights have been tendered to Cisco (CSCO) ...
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Over the past few years, Nokia’s dominance of the smartphone market has been steadily eroded by competition from the likes of Apple (AAPL) and Research In Motion (RIMM). In its latest quarter, the company’s smartphone market share slipped to 35 percent from 41 percent . And with Motorola (MOT) ...
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QOTD: It Only Looks Free …
It’s hard to argue that any firm can compete against free offerings, especially when the free offerings come from a firm with Google’s deep pockets for staying power and eventual product improvement. And of course this ultimately reduces ...
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2010 will be a better year for the PC industry than 2009. And it will be even better for Apple (AAPL). According to Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra, Mac sales have outpaced the PC market as a whole by 1.8 times over the last 3 years and that trend will continue in 2010. Cihra expects ...
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Some interesting investment news from Motorola (MOT) today. The company’s investment arm, Motorola Ventures, has put some money into Sensitive Object , a French start-up that developed a haptic technology that can transform almost any surface into a multitouch interface.
As I understand it, ...
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Dell is unloading another PC factory. The company is selling off its 2-year-old computer manufacturing plant in Lodz, Poland to Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum. The facility’s 1,600 employees will all keep their jobs and continue to ...
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Ever use Google Friend Connect? No? Every heard of it? … No? Well, you may soon.
If you use Twitter.
This morning Google (GOOG) said it is integrating the micro-blogging service into Friend Connect , a federated identity platform that allows credentials from social networks to be used ...
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With 1.3-billion transistors and a 48-core processor Intel’s
new “Single-chip Cloud Computer” (SCC) could power a formidable...
computer indeed. But it will be a while before it reaches market, if ever. Uncrated at an event in San ...
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Just Slap the Thing in a MacBook, Already, Will Ya?
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“We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of search. The answer is yes. And, it is unlikely that we would be the consolidator.”
– IAC CEO Barry Diller, Oct. 28, 2009
Turns out Barry Diller isn’t all that interested in selling off IAC’s ...
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AT&T’s (T) lawsuit over Verizon’s (VZ) “There’s A
Map For That” and “Island of Misfit Toys” commercials...
has been dismissed. Below, the dismissal. [Details to follow] ATT-VerizonDismissal – PREVIOUSLY: AT&T ...
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AT&T's Lawsuit Against Verizon Dismissed
A bit of good news for Nokia (NOK) in its seemingly endless parade of bad. The company said today that it expects handset industry volumes to rise 10 percent in 2010 from 2009 as the market rebounds from the econalypse. “Going into 2010, the overall mobile devices market is stabilizing ...
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According to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, the average Apple (AAPL) iPhone user consumes 5-7 times the monthly bandwidth of the average wireless voice subscriber and at least twice the amount of the typical smartphone phone user. With usage levels like that and the network ...
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iPhone
QOTD
Like all tell-tale signs of brooding weather, the Cloud is a display system. It is both screen and barometer, archive and sensor, past and future. The patterns of its animated skins offer a civic-scale smart-meter for London as a whole, sign-posting particular events, transport ...
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If this isn’t the end of the line for Psystar, it’s damn near close to it. According to court papers filed Tuesday, the Mac clone maker has opted to pay Apple (AAPL) $2.7 million in damages rather than continue its ill-starred legal battle with the company . Under the terms of the ...
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Before, most people wouldn’t consider sharing their real identities online. But Facebook has offered a safe and trusted environment for people to interact online, which has made millions of people comfortable expressing more about themselves.
– Facebook founder and CEO Mark ...
