Blog » December 2010

Apple secrets leaked early by inside traders, arrests reveal

We don't normally cover the "business crime" beat, but there's a pretty interesting gadget angle here. As part of a larger crack down on insider trading, three technology executives and a &q    

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RIM beats earnings estimates, falls just shy on subscriber growth; co-CEOs now co-chairmen, too

For now, RIM's looming mindshare problem is more theoretical than it is practical -- as far as Wall Street's concerned, at least -- on today's news that they've beaten the consensus estimate    

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HTC's Peter Chou says LTE handsets are coming next year, and the world keeps on spinning

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but a very popular handset maker will be introducing smartphones that incorporate the latest wireless technology at some point in the upcoming year. Sounds crazy, d    

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Best Buy tells the Nexus S retail story: 8AM online sales, two per customer maximum

Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal -- you're not alone, so you're going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack. Best Buy has a    

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Toshiba building new factory to churn out iPhone LCDs, says Nikkei

Word on the street -- and by that we mean a Nikkei Business Daily report -- is that Toshiba's dropping a cool 100 billion yen (around1.2 billion in US currencies) for a new factory in the Ishikawa prefectu    

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Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES?

The CES 2010 Ballmernote has become something of a black mark for Microsoft -- the company's delivered almost nothing in the year after Steve demoed the HP Slate and talked about future Windows 7 Slate PCs    

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All Things D posts full Mike Lazaridis video from D: Dive Into Mobile

By now you've no doubt heard about Mike Lazaridis' recent appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, where the RIM co-CEO arrived with his own personal reality distortion field and made stateme    

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eLocity A7 tablet finally shipping, $399 still buys you Froyo and Tegra 2

Looking for a bargain bin tablet without the bargain bin stigma? We told you around three months ago to look Stream TV's way, but it seems that the same message could be applied today. For whatever reason,    

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New Kindle sells 'millions,' bests all 2009 Kindle sales

Amazon has left us with no choice: making sales conclusions based on a single additional letter. The company, notoriously vague on Kindle sales, has announced that "in just the first 73 days of this holida    

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The Future Super Smartphone

Mobile Guru submits: Interesting enough, when I thought about writing this article, it originally was going to discuss the mobile banking market and the concept of paying for everything with your mobile phone.    

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