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Apple has made the announcement that the new iPad will at long last launch across the Chinese market later this month on July 20th – a product launch thought to be something of a precursor to a full-scale invasion by Apple of one of the largest and indeed the fastest growing of all technology markets in the world today. A full four months after the new iPad saw its … [Read more...]
Any hopes of Nokia bouncing back to glory in the near future have once again been dampened, as the ailing Finnish brand is expected to report worse than expected losses for the quarter next week. What’s more, analysts and market experts alike remain less than convinced that sales of its Windows Phone devices will pick up significantly before Q4 at the earliest, … [Read more...]
June has long been unofficially reserved as Apple’s month for unveiling, debuting and in some cases releasing titanic new hardware – though you may have notice this wasn’t to be the case this year. In fact, cast your mind back to the major product announcements of June and anything bearing the Apple logo will in all likelihood rank rather low in the minds of most, … [Read more...]
Apple has settled its long-running courtroom battle with Proview Technologies in China by handing over $60 million, according to court briefings issued this week. The case concerned the use of the iPad brand name in China, which Proview technologies was claiming ownership to and demanding damages from Apple. The Cupertino company on the other hand claimed that the … [Read more...]
While the new Google Nexus 7 tablet with an extraordinary $199 price tag is likely to spell the demise of the Amazon Kindle Fire and countless other budget-priced tablets, analysts remain unconvinced as to its chances against Apple’s iPad. According to industry experts, what will define the success or otherwise of the Nexus 7 is the strength and abundance of apps … [Read more...]
It seems as though Research in Motion’s (RIM) problems just will not cease, as the company prepares to announce quarterly losses even larger than initially expected. What’s more, concerns are growing that losses will continue to skyrocket for the ailing Canadian brand, if it is unable to come up with and deliver a new market-leading Smartphone by the end of the … [Read more...]
District judges in the US have upheld Apple’s request that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned from sale in the US, representing an enormous victory in the ongoing and relentless patent war between the two technology powerhouses. Considered by many industry experts and consumers alike to be the closets contenders for the iPad in terms of power and overall … [Read more...]
One of the most likely and at-present most feared features of Apple’s next iPhone is the inclusion of a brand new, smaller and perhaps chipped dock connector. Rumors of Apple’s plans to ditch the 30-pin connector in favor of a smaller version have been circulating since long before the iPhone 4 ever saw the light of day, though in this instance the whispers are … [Read more...]
Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone to be released later this year may feature Near Field Communication (NFC) – technology which allows the user to pay for goods and services with a simple swipe past a payment terminal. While the rumors pertaining to NFC inclusion have been doing the rounds for quite some time now, a series of coding pulled from apparent prototype … [Read more...]
If Google goes ahead with the release of a Nexus 7 Tablet in the very near future for the fabled $199 price-tag, the affordable tablet marketplace will be thrown into complete and total chaos. Of course, we’ve already become used to shelling out less than $200 for a striking and functional tablet in the form of the Amazon Kindle Fire, but given the fact that Google … [Read more...]