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Even at a discount, HP TouchPad fails to attract consumers
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Last week, Woot dropped the price of HP’s webOS-powered TouchPad tablet to just $379.99, the lowest price the tablet had seen yet. Despite such an attractive offering, only 612 people purchased the tablet during the Woot sale on August 5th. That’s roughly 25% of the 2,288 Motorola XOOM tablets Woot sold in a single day last month.
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Will the Motorola Droid Bionic live up to the hype?
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The wait for the Motorola Droid Bionic is finally coming to an end, and Verizon’s first dual-core LTE phone will soon be upon us. The handset has garnered quite the following since we first saw it back in January and even the massive redesign didn’t seem to sway interest for the Bionic. Can the Bionic hold onto the hype once the smoke has cleared and it’s officially available to the world or was the hype all in the wait?
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Microsoft adding speech recognition tech to Windows 8, next generation products
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Microsoft’s internal Tellme team is working on implementing speech recognition software into the Redmond-based firm’s portfolio of software and hardware products. Microsoft will build the feature into its new Windows 8 operating system, its Bing search engine, Windows Phone, Kinect and Xbox, Azure and other products, ZDNET has learned. We already know Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone Mango release will offer voice-to-text and text-to-voice functionality, but Tellme senior director of sales and marketing Ilya Bukshteyn told ZDNET‘s Mary Jo Foley that the HTML 5 speech tag will allow Microsoft to develop Windows 8 applications that are “speech capable.”
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FTC looking at Android in Google probe
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The Federal Trade Commission will be taking a hard look at how Google controls Android in its antitrust investigation, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
The governmental agency is looking at Google’s search practices too but what interests us is that the FTC is going to find out whether the search giant is disallowing handset makers and carriers to use competing services with the Android platform. Remember, the Android platform has grown from 0 percent of the market to more than 40 percent in just a few short years, so its importance is evident.
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White Samsung Galaxy S2 hits Vodafone UK
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News of the white Samsung Galaxy S2 heading to Europe dropped late last month but now the angelic version of the ace Android phone has been spotted on a UK carrier’s site. Head over to Vodafone now and you’ll see the new shade has been added to its “Coming Soon” section.
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Apple now the biggest company in the world
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Back in May last year, Pocket-lint told you how Apple had overtaken Microsoft as the biggest tech business in the world. But Apple's endeavour for world domination didn't end there - as reports now suggest that Apple has taken over oil giant ExxonMobil as the most valuable company in the world, based on the value of its stock.
So it's official - Apple is no longer the underdog that it likes to portray itself as. It is the world's biggest company across all industries.
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Archos' Arnova 7 G2 and 10 G2 tablets launch in Hong Kong, taste like Gingerbread
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It looks like Archos' summer of the sequels is just heating up. Less than a week ago, we spied the outfit's 8-incher at the FCC, and now our brethren at Engadget Chinese are offering up a hands-on with two more second-gen Arnovas: the Arnova 7 G2 and 10 G2. These made-over slates best their predecessors with Gingerbread and capacitive touchscreens. The original 7-inch tablet ran Froyo while its big brother came with Eclair; both sported resistive displays.
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OnLive UK launch September 22 with 100+ streaming games
Like UnlikeOnLive has announced that it will be launching its UK streaming gaming service on September 22, with a 100+ line-up of titles on offer from day one. Available for HDTV, PC, Mac, and iPad and Android tablet play, the new UK service will be fully connected with the existing US service, allowing gamers in both countries to take each other on in multiplayer titles with complete voice chat support.
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LG, Sony drop patent infringement lawsuits, strike cross-licensing agreement
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The testy patent battle between LG and Sony has finally come to an end, now that the companies have decided to lay down their arms and call a truce. In a statement issued today, an LG spokeswoman declared that the two parties have "agreed to drop patent infringement lawsuits against each other," adding that they've struck a cross-licensing deal on the TVs, smartphones and other gadgets in question. A Sony representative confirmed this, but did not offer further details.
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Meizu MX targeted at September with quad-core CPU
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Meizu's MX smartphone may be one of the first to arrive on the market with a quad-core processor, according to CEO Jack Wong. The handset was originally expected to be limited to a dual-core processor, however the executive published a post on the company's official forums claiming the 32GB variant will be upgraded to a quad-core chip.
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The rugged Samsung Galaxy Xcover runs Gingerbread and is not afraid to get dirty
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When it comes to rugged phones, most of them would not offer you much in terms of software and functionality, but the newly-announced Samsung Galaxy Xcover does not follow that unwritten rule. Powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the Galaxy Xcover is one full-fledged smartphone, yet it is tough enough to withstand the elements. The device is IP67 certified, which makes it resistant to dust, dirt and submersion in water at up to 1 meter for 30 minutes, so it would probably not mind hanging out in your pocket the next time you decide to go jet-skiing. Besides that, the smartphone's display is made using scratch-resistant tempered glass meaning that it will take more abuse that you would imagine...
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Motorola Wants Some of That Windows Phone 7 Pie That Nokia's Eating
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Sanjay Jha, Motorola's CEO, has commented that he wishes Motorola could get a similar deal to Nokia's with Microsoft, which sounds funny as the general opinion is that since they adopted Android, Motorola's got their shit together in recent years.
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Google Labs shutdown also drops Google App Inventor
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The shutdown of Google Labs has also resulted in Google App Inventor for Android being dropped. Google has posted a message to users stating that it will discontinue App Inventor as a Google product and will open source its code. The company has also indicated that as the app has been successful in school environments, it is exploring ways in which it can continue to support the use of the app in that context.
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Vudu uses new web streaming service to avoid sharing loot with Apple
Like UnlikeWhen Apple started to force a revenue share with any company with an app that required a subscription, many of the companies were not happy. Some just rendered unto Jobs, what belongs to Jobs. Others decided to make a workaround to avoid those extra payments. The first to skirt the Apple system was Amazon with its Kindle iPad service where it offered the services as a web offering rather than an app.
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HTC to have 'major news' tomorrow
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We just got word that HTC will be making a “major announcement” tomorrow via teleconference at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time and I’m being told that it will be “big” and “major” but that’s about all I know right now.
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