Industry expert CNET was not shy. After a typically tough road test, CNET experts reported, “The Motorola Xoom taqblet is easily the best competition Apple’s iPad has ever seen.” Subject of much buzz in the three-days before its Thursday launch, Xoom did not disappoint, bringing power, speed, and special features to the iPad throw-down....
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Xoom set to challenge iPad.
Consumer Electronics Show stages Vegas take-over.
Once upon a time, “techies” may have haunted a subterranean American sub-culture, living in their mother’s basements and alternating between annihilating one another on “CounterStrike” and innovating apps, gadgets, and platforms. Their combined computing power might have taken-over the world, but they remained interested in dominating all things virtual. This week in Las Vegas,...
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Android dominates summer smartphone sales.
Feel free to crunch the numbers in your spreadsheet or data analysis program of choice. You will, however, come to the same bottom line the experts at ComScore drew as they analyzed the smartphone market’s summer statistics: Android is hot. The rest are not. Between the first of June and August 31, Android surged...
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Microsoft shaken and stirred
Apple overtakes Seattle giant as most valuable The most powerful possible affirmation for the Cupertino clan’s business model, all of the world’s major news services reported Wednesday that Apple Computer has become the world’s most valuable technology corporation, overtaking Microsoft, which has owned the top spot for decades. Apple shares closed Wednesday valued at...
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Google Nexus One: the best technology is the industry’s best-kept secret
Compared with all the hype and hoopla surrounding Apple iPad’s imminent debut, the launch of Google Nexus One appears as the ultimate stealth operation. In January, 2010, Google very quietly began selling Nexus One handhelds directly from its website, delegating connection details and calling plans to T-Mobile. Google did not advertise the product’s appearance...
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