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Apple Unveils First 128GB iPad 4, Aims for the Enterprise
This week, Apple released a 128GB version of its fourth generation iPad, with a high-resolution 9.7-inch Retina screen.
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Microsoft Confirms February 9 as Release Day for Surface Windows 8 Pro
With anecdotal evidence suggesting that many potential Surface buyers were avoiding the Surface RT version and holding out for Surface Windows 8 Pro, all that was missing was the release date. This week, Microsoft confirmed that the professional version will finally be released on February 9.
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Microsoft Q2 Profits Down By 3.7%, Windows 8 Sales Slow, Still No Figures for Surface
Anyone hoping that the information supplied at Microsoft’s Q2 earnings announcement last night would answer some of the questions hanging over the Redwood giant are going to be disappointed. Microsoft Performance We still don’t know how many Surface tablets it sold, whether Windows 8 is truly lighting up the market
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Amazon Gets Talkative With Ivona Text-to-Speech Acquisition
The latest company to invest in voice, Amazon already uses Ivona's technology in its Kindle Fire audio reader, but will look to challenge Siri and Samsung's S Voice in future products by acquiring the Polish company. Talk To Me Even the quick demo on the front page of Ivona's site
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Apple Earns $13.1 Billion in First Quarter Profits, Sells 75 Million iOS Devices
On sales of 47.8 million iPhones and 22 million iPads, Apple has recorded $54.5 billion in revenue and $13.1 billion in profit in a single quarter. By the Numbers The numbers are in and the Apple bandwagon continues to roll on, with little sign of a slowdown. As discussed earlier
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Gartner Report: PC Shipments Down 5% in Fourth Quarter 2012
Microsoft launched Windows 8 in the run up to the holiday season in 2012, but a new Gartner report found buyers are increasingly shifting to tablets.
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Mobile App of the Week: Searching on Your Tablet with Izik
In this week's Mobile App of the Week our focus is on the iPad version of Izik, a tablet search application. There are a variety of searches engines that can be used with tablet devices, such as Google and Bing, but these search engines were introduced well before tablets.
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Like Dedicated e-Readers? Enjoy Them While You Can
If you like the dedicated e-reader, cherish it. There’s growing evidence that the e-reader is on its way out. As tablets have gotten smaller and less expensive, and smartphones have gotten bigger, the one-trick pony called the e-reader has gotten squeezed by its more capable siblings.
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Apple Sees Almost 20 Billion App Downloads in 2012
If you're wondering just how big the potential for apps is, Apple has seen users download 40 billion apps since the arrival of its App Store, with nearly half of those being grabbed in 2012.
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Lenovo's Horizon PC and NVIDIA's Shield Demonstrate Evolving PC Trends at #CES2013
It looks like the tower case can finally be laid to rest outside the IT environment as Lenovo, NVIDIA and others shoehorn the PC, or streaming access to it, into all kinds of new formats.
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Appcelerator Reports: Not all Mobile Devices Expected to Have a Good 2013
With the release of its "IDC Q4 2012 Mobile Developer Report," Appcelerator has announced its mobile predictions for 2013 that stem from trends during the latter half of 2012. A mobile development platform, Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC), surveyed 2,837 of Appcelerator Titanium developers from November 15 to
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2013 Predictions: Smartphones and Tablets, What Would an iPhone 6 or Galaxy S4 Look Like?
CMSWire peers into the magic crystal ball to see what's coming from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft and RIM in the coming year. Return of the RIM Having just reviewed 2012, the first big act of 2013 is already pretty much set in stone.
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[Infographic] Mobile in 2012
Looking back, as we do in December, it's hard to imagine what life would have been like had there been no mobile. During 2012, our smartphones became smarter, faster, slimmer. Tablets multiplied. Operating systems expanded.
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Mobile Review 2012: Smartphones Become Boring in a Tablet World
One thing became pretty clear in 2012, for all the bluster and hype over new features, smartphones are now a mature technology, leaving the seemingly ever-resizeable tablet to take up the slack.
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