May 22, 2013

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Best Buy offers Dell Streak for $ 99 on 2 year Contract

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Earlier, manufacturers seemed to pile up multiple devices for users to lavishly choose from during the festivities. Best Buy is keeping with this trend by treating its customers to a nice big saving on the AT&T-attached Dell Streak, offering it up for $99 in upfront costs on a two-year contract with AT&T. With an original [...]

Meet the Google “Cr-48 Chrome Netbook”

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Although the official release of its cloud-based Chrome OS is months away, Google has begun a massive pilot program, offering specially-chosen end users, Google employees, and journalists their own prototype Chrome netbooks. Known as the Cr-48 (for the element Chromium 48), these particular 12.1-inch laptops will never be sold commercially, but they offer a very [...]

Groupon – Everything You Want to Know Groupons

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Groupon grew out of a website called The Point, a website launched in November 2007 that lets you start a campaign asking people to give money or do something as a group — but only once a “tipping point” of people agree to participate. By delaying action until enough people come together to have a [...]

Living Social to Rival Groupon in Coupon Wars

Living Social Rivals Groupon in Coupon Wars

The second-biggest website for daily deals, LivingSocial will use a $183 million investment led by Amazon.com Inc. to overtake market leader Groupon Inc., the company’s chief executive officer said. Everybody loves a bargain, a discount, a deal or a steal. And for families on a budget – and really who isn’t these days – finding [...]

Jailbreak Detection API in iOS 4.2 Removed

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Consumers who have jailbroken Apple devices were worried a few months back as Apple Inc. introduced the jailbreak detection API with the iOS 4 update. Now, however, the Cupertino-based company has decided to disable the API with the iOS 4.2 update. it was either disabled or removed by Apple for no apparent reason. While Apple [...]

T-Mobile 4G Enabled Tablets Coming in 2011

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T-Mobile is following in Sprint’s footsteps and will also be producing a 4G tablet to hit shelves in 2011. Sadly, neither an additional information about the T-Mobile 4G tablets was released, nor a timescale when to expect them in 2011. A press release on Friday reads that: T-Mobile is working closely with the majority of [...]

Faxcon to Start “iPad2″ Shipping in February 2011 for April Launch

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Foxconn is due to start shipping finished iPads in late February for a launch less than two months later, part suppliers said Monday night, and added there is less than 100 days until the first units need to be ready. Sources from Taiwanese component makers are reported to have claimed the iPad 2 will ship [...]

Advent Vega Tablet Powered with Tegra 2 Comes Back in the Market

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Advent’s Vega Android tablet is back in stock this morning, with retailer PC World showing the £249 slate up for home delivery. Those consumers that need an update or reminder will want to know that the device is built around the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip), has support for multimedia, including Flash playback, and has [...]

BestBuy Mobile Offers Free “Smartphone” every day in December

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Best Buy offers ahead of Christmas, at least four free smartphones, one for each of the largest wireless carriers in the US, for every day in December. “Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) Friday said its mobile retail unit Best Buy Mobile is giving consumers a holiday event, featuring free smart phones in [...]

Nokia to Gain Ground on RIM with Smartphone : Nokia Exe.Iluri Nurmi

Speaking with ComputerWeekly , Iluri Nurmi, the vice president of Nokia’s enterprise smartphones (also known as E series) said that Finnish mobile phone giant  is beginning to focus its efforts at mobile enterprise email to make a run at RIM. He also noted that company was working both sides of the street, making Eseries devices [...]

HP Slate Shipping soon?

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One of Engadget’s readers have let out a little bit of a golden nugget today – that the HP Slate is currently on its way. The reader even provided PDF proof of their claim. Could the Slate be in consumers hands in the next few weeks? It looks like Engadget’s reader is expecting to have [...]

Microsoft releases “Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools”- Now Available for Download

This is the news that all the VB Developers are waiting for, that Microsoft has released tools for building Visual Basic applications for Windows Phone 7, a move that could produce a significant number of applications for the new Smartphone operating system, as well as C#. The RTW provides “Go Live” support, which allows VB [...]