Archive | July 20th, 2010

The HP Slate 500: Eight Models Of Windows 7 Tablet Goodness

Posted on 20 July 2010

Great news, Internet.

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Wildfire Launches Group Deals on Facebook

Posted on 20 July 2010

Wildfire is launching a Groupon or LivingSocial Deals-style application on Facebook this week, called Group Deals. It’s designed to allow brand Page administrators to set up group promotions on a Facebook Page within a matter of minutes, then get their discount offers shared among friends.

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iSkoot scoots into a partnership with T-Mobile, Kalaida now on over 100 handsets

Posted on 20 July 2010

In our tech-obsessed bubble, wherein we obsess over how many millions of iPhones have been sold or how many tens of thousands of apps are in the Android Market, it’s easy to forget something: not everyone carries a smartphone.

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Apple’s Billion Dollar Data Center Will Be Done This Year. iTunes In The Cloud, Anyone?

Posted on 20 July 2010

During Apple’s Q3 2010 earnings call , CFO Peter Oppenheimer fielded a question about the massive data center Apple is currently building in Maiden, North Carolina. The reporter wanted to know how it was coming, and if there were any updates

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Forget All These Android Tablets, Let Me At That Chrome OS

Posted on 20 July 2010

Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear about a new Android-based tablet in some ever-so-slightly-new size, configuration, or spec. Chances are that every PC manufacturer out there is going to have one, and chances are they’ll all be more or less interchangeable — like the Windows 7 tablets that they often announce at the same time.

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Tim Cook: Only Thing Limiting iPhone 4 Sales Is That We Can’t Make Them Fast Enough

Posted on 20 July 2010

During the Q&A session at the end of Apple’s Q3 earnings call , Apple COO Tim Cook fielded some questions about Apple’s new iPhone 4 product. Not surprisingly, there were a few about the antenna and the swirling controversy .

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Google Energy’s First Purchase: 20 Years of Wind Power

Posted on 20 July 2010

Google Energy today announced an agreement to purchase 114 megawatts of wind power per year for 20 years at a set price from an Iowa wind farm owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources. A Google spokesperson Jamie Yodd noted, “This is the first contract for Google Energy

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Borders Launches Marketplace For New And Used Textbooks

Posted on 20 July 2010

The textbook buying space is heating up today as Borders debuts its new “Borders Textbook Marketplace.” The Marketplace features more than 1.4 million titles including used textbooks at savings of up to 90 percent, says the company. Students can sell used books on the site as well. The Marketplace, which was created in partnership with book seller platform Alibris, includes text books from college, high school, middle and elementary school as other titles often used in classrooms.

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Wow, iPads Almost Outsold Macs Last Quarter. And It Was The Most Macs Ever Sold

Posted on 20 July 2010

Of all the stellar numbers Apple released today with their Q3 2010 earnings, the most impressive has to be this: Apple sold 3.27 million iPads during the quarter. To put that into context, that’s only 200,000 fewer units than their entire Mac division sold.

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Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates On Best Mac Sales Ever And Huge iPad Numbers

Posted on 20 July 2010

In news that should surprise no one by now — Apple once again had a stellar quarter and blew past Wall Street estimates for Q3 2010. Just as with Q1 and Q2 of this year, Apple has been doing so well thanks largely to the iPhone. But unlike those quarters, Apple now has an important new product adding money to their bottom line: the iPad (the iPad had been released just prior to the closing of Q2).

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