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Apple Developing CDMA-GSM 'World iPad'?
Here’s an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple’s next-generation iPad. According to Blair, Apple...
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IPad 2: Start the 100-Day Hype Countdown
Industry sources are telling the occasionally reliable DigiTimes that Foxconn, Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner, will begin shipping the next-generation tablet within the next 100 days in...
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Skype Snaps Up Mobile Video Chat Player Qik
Skype has confirmed it is acquiring Qik, a start-up that has been getting attention over the past year for becoming the default video-chat software on many new smartphones with forward-facing cameras....
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200 Million FaceTime-Enabled Devices in 2012?
By the end of fiscal 2011, Apple will have an installed base of some 85 million FaceTime-enabled devices as the company’s nascent video conferencing platform gathers momentum. This according to...
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Skype Does Better With Group Calls Than Mobile
Making audio and video calls between computers over Skype is now so common that the company’s name has become a verb. People ask others to “Skype me” or say they are “Skyping.” [ See post to watch...
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Dispatches From the Supply Line Stoke iPad, iPhone Chatter
With the first-year anniversaries of the iPad and iPhone 4 fast approaching, and both devices destined for an update per Apple’s annual mobile device refresh cycle, the Apple rumor mill is undergoing a...
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Google Deal for SayNow to Make Google Voice More Interesting
I’ve been a Google Voice user since before it was even called Google Voice. Back in 2007, I was fascinated by the potential of GrandCentral–the service Google acquired and transformed into Google...
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IPad 2 Display Question Draws Closer to Resolution
If you were hoping that Apple, through some combination of engineering acumen, force of will and luck, would overcome the power consumption and cost issues preventing it from adding a high-resolution...
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Early Adopter: Smartphone Not Enough Like HAL? Satarii Wants to Give It an...
Today, the mark of smartphone obsession is bringing one everywhere with you–to dinner, to bed, to funerals, to the altar at your weddings. If fledgling accessory maker Satarii has its way, the bar on...
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Exclusive: Apple iPad 2 Event Set for March 2
To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised...
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How Soon Will the iPad 2 Ship? [Updated]
Assuming Apple does as expected and uncrates the successor to the iPad at its special event next Wednesday, how long will it be before it actually ships? Not long at all, say supply chain sources, who...
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IPad 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Enter the Tablet Market
“If you look at how long it took us to sell the first million iPods, 20-plus months versus one month of iPad, it’s a phenomenal difference. IPad is not following a typical early-adopter curve, taking...
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Jobs Introduces Apple iPad 2
“Come see what 2011 will be the year of.” Printed on the invitation to the special event Apple’s holding today in San Francisco, that tagline–a smirking riff on the deluge of post-CES “Year of The...
View ArticleMobilized Gets Hands-On With the iPad 2
While it’s one thing to hear about the new iPad, it’s another to have it in your hands. Here’s a short video showing the new, thinner iPad in action. The main new things feature-wise are the FaceTime...
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Skype's iPad Plans Leak Out Over YouTube
I bet there are some angry Skype calls going around inside the company’s headquarters over this one. The video chat company was planning to wait until next week to announce its iPad plans, but the cat...
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Apple's Lion Brings PCs Into Tablet Era
With its iPhones and iPads, Apple has led people toward a new way of operating digital devices that relies on direct manipulation of items with finger gestures, not a mouse and scroll bars. App icons...
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Tango Video Calls Make It to the PC -- But Are Windows-Only for Now
When Tango first launched a year ago, its big draw was that it could relatively painlessly connect video calls across both Android and iOS platforms over Wi-Fi and cellular networks. In other words,...
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Foursquare Tries a Bicoastal Approach to Engineering
Some companies are almost entirely virtual, like blog host Automattic. Others grow through acquisitions, like what Groupon is doing in the Bay Area — piecing together a tech team thousands of miles...
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AT&T to Allow Free FaceTime Calls Over Cellular With Mobile Share Plan
As added incentive to sign up for its new shared data plans, AT&T announced today that it will allow iPhone users to make FaceTime video calls over its cellular network as long as they subscribe to...
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AT&T: We're Not Violating Net Neutrality by Limiting FaceTime Over Cellular
AT&T on Wednesday lashed out against critics that say it is violating Net Neutrality rules by limiting which users can access Apple’s FaceTime service over cellular. “AT&T does not have a...
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