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This holiday season, 80 percent of individuals want some sort of consumer electronics device as a gift, according to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association and CNET , but unless your recipients are already app-loving, ebook-downloading, subscription-paying gadgeteers, buying hot ...
Computing
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Computing
Netbooks, low-cost portable computers optimized for web usage, are continuing to sell at a torrid pace, with Acer expecting 50 percent growth in the global netbook market in 2010, to 42 million units . In the meantime, standard technologies, operating systems and other options in these ...
Computing
Acer
Toshiba
IMPORTANT POINTS Thanks to open operating systems like Android the phone can be divorced from its operating system
Android will help PC makers build compelling smartphones
To compete against the PC makers, handset OEMs will have to focus on services, cutting costs and communities As PC ...
Phones
Android
Acer
Lenovo
Dell
Motorola
Nokia
It’s that time of year again. The holiday shopping season has shifted into full gear, and so have the economists, analysts and retailers who wring their hands over things like Black Friday sales figures. Or those of its fake, and widely mocked, online counterpart, Cyber Monday (which is ...
Other
Mike Janes, chief executive and co-founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based FanSnap , a search engine for live event tickets, is no fan of the New York Yankees (he loves the Red Sox), but he was happy to see them in this fall’s World Series. Why? Since they were playing the Phillies, a rivalry ...
Other
Amazon is experiencing some slow response times this morning, and I imagine it’s because the site is getting hammered not only by reporters seeking Black Friday stories , but also millions of customers who asked themselves, “Why brave the cold for holiday deals when I can get ...
Other
So it’s finally Black Friday and retailers across America are slashing their prices and welcoming hordes of hysterical shoppers. The question, of course, is how generous is Apple being this year? Is it – as it teased earlier in the week – a “happy” Friday for the Apple-buying public?
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Computing
Black Friday
About two years ago, I wrote about the growing number of download speed boosters, among them an Israeli company called SpeedBit . Well the 10-year-old Speedbit has been speeding along ever since, and last month saw its SpeedBit Video Accelerator pass the 20 million installs-mark . The company, ...
Other
Samsung, after unveiling its open mobile platform for touch screen-based mobile phones, bada, earlier this month, and launching a related web site , has confirmed the date of its December launch event to deliver the SDK: Dec. 8th. According to Samsung’s invitation, the event will take ...
Phones
LogMeIn, a supplier of useful remote control, file-sharing and backup apps that we’ve written about many times previously, this week quietly rolled out a beta of LogMeIn Express , a simple, on-demand service for sharing your screen with up to 100 other people.
To get started, ...
Computing
High-definition TV sets are expected to top the wish lists of consumers looking to cash in on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. According to Retrevo’s Gadgetology survey, 30 percent of consumers shopping over the weekend want a new HDTV set, compared to 22 percent that are looking to ...
HDTV
HDTV
I’m not really comfortable making broad technology predictions, but I’ve run across two things recently that perfectly illustrate for me the next generation of the web. Some of us are already living it — those of us that use offerings like Twitter or Hunch, or any service ...
Other
While Qualcomm for many is synonymous with wireless, the company acquired Atlanta-based mobile banking startup Firethorn two years ago with an eye to also becoming a major player in the mobile payment space. More importantly, it acquired Firethorn founder Tripp Rackley — the man it hopes ...
Other
People are nostalgic for newspapers for a reason. The growing multitude of options for getting your daily news is more stressful than informative. We have on the one hand Google Reader, with its ever-growing mass of unread items, and on the other sites like NYTimes.com, which even as they get ...
Phones
Here in the U.S., we’re getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, which for many folks means a long weekend — my favorite time to tinker with new technologies, particularly software. So I’ve gathered together seven ideas from around the GigaOM Network that will provide you ...
Phones
IMPORTANT POINTS * Data Robotics has sold 85,000 Drobos
* Will do sales of $60 million in its third year of sales.
* Wants to go public after crossing $100 million in revenues. It’s easy to confuse the technology industry with the shiny, attention-grabbing consumer web that’s ...
Computing
It’s such an obvious idea it’s amazing it didn’t happen sooner. Wired reports that Apple has teamed up with promoter Live Nation to bring Live music to its iTunes Store.
The reason for the delay is the tremendous difficulty getting all the required signatures on all the dotted lines. ...
Audio
iTunes
The Federal Communications Commission said today it’s soliciting proposals from those looking to become administrators for TV band database managers, moving one step closer toward making white space broadband available on the unused airwaves that exist between digital TV channels.
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Phones
If you’re looking to save a little time this holiday season by shopping on the mobile web, you’d do well to spend some time on Amazon’s mobile site, according to figures released this week from Compuware’s Gomez division. The online retailer’s destination fared the best in a study of 14 mobile ...
