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Entries for September, 2011

Netflix shares fall as competition heats up

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Netflix Inc shares slumped 11 percent on Thursday as competitors made moves to attract more customers with alternative options for movie and television content. Original post by samzenpus

Tokyoflash Japan Announces Their First Touchscreen Watch

The Kisai Rogue Touch LED watch started out as a concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog less than a year ago, and it’s now available for purchase.  Tokyoflash Japan says  the Rogue Touch has “time, date, alarm, dual time zones, animation feature, LCD ‘always on’ display, and LED backlight at a touch.  The watch has [...]

Notebooks live on despite tablet onslaught

The lucrative notebook market has managed to stay afloat despite a tablet onslaught led primarily by Apple’s wildly popular iPad.

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Facebook executive joins eBay board

(Reuters) – Facebook’s head of mobile marketing has joined the board of directors of eBay Inc, expanding the size of the board. Original post by samzenpus

Homemade iPhone 5 built from glass and aluminum is most gorgeous design yet

We’ve seen about a hundred different interpretations of what Apple’s iPhone 5 might look like at this point, and we probably all agree that October 4th can’t come soon enough; regardless of what Apple unveils next month, it will finally put an end to the rumors and speculation. Apple’s next-generation iPhone might be an incremental [...]

Brazil’s $12 billion iPad deal is in trouble: sources

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A much-hyped $12 billion plan for Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to produce iPads in Brazil is “in doubt” due to stagnant negotiations over tax breaks and Brazil’s own deep structural problems such as a lack of skilled labor, government sources tell Reuters. Original post by samzenpus

magicJack gets an iOS app

Bill’s review of the magicJack Plus have been really popular with our readers. Now iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners can make free calls to U.S. and Canadian phone numbers or to any magicJack number, anywhere in the world using WiFi or 3G. The calls won’t use your mobile minutes or require any purchase. It’s [...]

RIM calls PlayBook discontinuation ‘pure fiction’

Research In Motion on Thursday responded to a market rumor suggesting that production of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet had been stopped, and it was considering an exit from the tablet market. “RIM doesn’t typically comment on rumors, but any suggestion that the BlackBerry PlayBook is being discontinued is pure fiction,” a RIM spokesperson told BGR [...]

RIM says remains committed to PlayBook tablet

(Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion brushed off suggestions on Thursday that it would discontinue production of its PlayBook computer tablet as “pure fiction” after an analyst said the company may be considering an exit from the market. Original post by samzenpus

iPhone 4S pops up in Apple’s inventory again

A new image suggesting Apple will soon launch an “iPhone 4S” was revealed on Thursday. 9to5Mac published a photo from Apple’s internal inventory that clearly shows the iPhone 4S moniker and suggests the 16GB iPhone 4S model number is “MD239.” Oddly, the new device is also codenamed “N94″ which was previously thought to have been [...]