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Tablet Shipments Hit Record Levels While Apples Market Share Declines

Global tablet shipments reached a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a new report.Jumping from 29.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, the tablet market grew a st    

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BlackBerrys Secret Weapon: Women

The two most significant words that BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said during the company's big launch event this week may not have been "BlackBerry 10," but rather "working moms."Somet    

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RIM introduces 2 new smartphones; changes company name to BlackBerry

Research In Motion (RIM) has changed its name to BlackBerry, and has introduced two new smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 10 platform, the Z10 and Q10. The two models will be available on the market start     1 comment(s)

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Gigabyte Communications expects to ship 400,000 smartphones in 2013

Gigabyte Communications expects to launch 10 smartphones for shipments of 400,000 units in 2013, increasing from 5-6 models launched and about 200,000 smartphones shipped in 2012, according to the company.    

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BlackBerry Z10 priced at 480 SIM-free by purported Carphone Warehouse database leak (update)

With all the BlackBerry 10 leaks as of late, it seems inevitable that pricing info would get ousted in the lead up to January 30th. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, it appears that the SIM-free version of RIM�    

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The Engadget Interview: Richard Collins, head of Ubuntu mobile products

Don't ask, don't get. That's why we rang up Canonical and requested an early build of Ubuntu for the Galaxy Nexus. (Politely declined.) Next, we asked if maybe the company could speed up developm    

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Huawei, ZTE blast LG, HTC, Nokia and others out of global smartphone rankings

Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in the fourth quarter displaced the likes of HTC, LG Electronics, Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) in the rankings of the world's largest smartphone v    

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Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.

In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking cellphones would no longer be allowe     1 comment(s)

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Putting solar on anything that can be moved, carried or worn: Q&A with Alta Devices

GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the po    

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Worldwide tablet shipments to reach 145 million in 2013, says ABI

An estimated 145 million tablet devices will ship worldwide in 2013 due to a combination of new market entrants, more affordable choices for consumers, and increased adoption by business audiences, according to     1 comment(s)

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