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Ready or not, here comes mobile on the desktop

Windows and Mac plan tighter integration between mobile and desktop. If you've been waiting for desktops to get more mobile, your wait is almost over. Originally posted at The Download Blog    

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Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean: To wait or not to wait?

New operating systems look to complete our transition to a touch-screen world, but are we patient enough to wait? It's especially tricky if you're in need of both a new phone and laptop. Originally po    

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Amazon Kindle Fire climbs to top of Android pack

A new report from IHS iSuppli tells us that Amazon is on its way to owning the Android tablet space with a 14 percent market share for the Kindle Fire.    

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Analyzing the world's 10 biggest handset makers in Q4

The numbers are in, and it's time to make sense of the data. ABI Research's Michael Morgan checks out the world's 10 largest branded cell phone makers in the fourth quarter of 2011, providing sal    

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AT&T's hungry eyes turning toward Leap, Dish or MetroPCS?

Publicly, at least, AT&T is bursting at the seams as it runs out of space to put all of its customers. The failed39 billion purchase of T-Mobile was all about trying to match (or better) Verizon's    

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China handset makers to push sales of sub-CNY1,000 smartphones to mature markets

Having mass-produced smartphones with a price tag of around CNY1,000 (US$159) for the China market since 2011, China-based handset makers ZTE, Huawei Device, Lenovo and Coolpad plan to push the sale of sub-CNY1    

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Sony finalizes divorce with Ericsson, renames itself Sony Mobile Communications

More than half of America's married couples will tell you, breaking up is hard. Hard and expensive. After living in denial, dodging rumors and eventually coming to terms with the inevitable, Sony has final    

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Gartner: Apple leads the way among smartphone vendors, Android sees slight decline

Gartner's latest bundle of smartphone stats has just hit the wires, bringing with it some encouraging news for the folks in Cupertino. According to the firm's Q4 report, Apple finished 2011 as the wor    

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Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab 2, Their First Ever ICS Tablet: Heres Everything You Need To Know

The fundamental difference between how Apple sells its products and how other computer manufacturers sell theirs lies in the sheer product variety within the same general form factor. Apple believes in putting    

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Apple attempt to ban the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

You might be familiar with the numerous spats that have broken out between big mobile players Samsung and Apple over the past few months. Cropping up again and again, amidst tech headlines dating way back into    

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