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February 1, 2011
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5 Ways Google's Honeycomb Tablet OS Could Beat Apple's Mighty iPad We offer five ways Google can smoke the iPad on the feature front with its Honeycomb tablet-centric OS.
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Lawsuit Claims AT&T Cheats iPhone, iPad Owners on Data AT&T has 'systematically' overcharged iPhone and iPad owners with capped data plans by inflating the amount of data they download and adding
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Mozy Says Prices Headed Up for Online Storage Customers Hit with an onslaught of users wielding high-definition electronics, Mozy said on Monday that it's changing pricing for online storage
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AT&T Accused of Overbilling iPhone, iPad Users A lawsuit claims AT&T bills for "phantom data traffic" when there is no actual data usage initiated by the customer.
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Apple Rejects Sony Reader App, Says Report Apple reportedly rejected an e-reader app from Sony because the electronics maker wasn't selling e-books through Apple's in-app purchase mechanism.
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Don't Worry, Sony's NGP Will Play Older PSP Games, Too Sony plans to offer publishers the option to release older UMD-based PSP games on the NGP's new card-based format.
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Android Topples Symbian as World's No. 1 Mobile OS For the first time in its short history, Android is now the number-one mobile operating system in the world.
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Android Tablet Sales Skyrocket -- Look Out iPad One day Android tablets will outsell the iPad, in the same way that Android phones have overtaken the iPhone.
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Xoom Tablet Picks Up 'Freedom' Theme From Apple's 1984 Ad Motorola is challenging the iPad's domination with a bit of humor: It opens its ad with an image of a spinning Earth wearing recognizable white Apple earbuds.
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Gogo Offers Facebook In-Flight Access for Free American Airlines, AirTran, Alaska Airlines, Delta, United Airlines, US Airways and Virgin America will take part in the promo, which will be offered throughout February on U.S. flights.
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eSports Update: StarCraft II GSL Code S Finals Recap Didnt catch the StarCraft II GSL Code S Finals this weekend? Read up on our recap.
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Netgear Boss Apologizes for Steve Jobs Comments Patrick Lo severely had criticized Apple for pushing "closed" platforms and the company's dominance of the digital music ecosystem.
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Netgear Boss in Astonishing Attack on Steve Jobs Patrick Lo, the chairman and CEO of networking firm Netgear has attacked Apple and Steve Jobs in an extraordinary interview.
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Windows Phone 7 Market Share Creeps up 2% in 2 Months Windows Phone 7 gains in smartphone marketshare, but has a long way to go against now-dominant Android and iOS.
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Imagine Saving Your PlayStation 3 Games Online Cloud computing may be coming to Sony's PlayStation 3 in the guise of online save games.
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Can You Swap Your Laptop With an iPad? Tired of lugging your laptop on business trips? Imagine leaving your clunky laptop at home and getting virtually all of your work done on a slim iPad. Yes, it's possible.
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Android Tops Smartphones; WP7 Trails Others in Various Q4 Reports The Android OS dominated globally in the fourth quarter in smartphones and gained ground on the iPad in the tablet marketplace
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Windows Phone 7 Update Coming Feb. 7? Copy and paste, software fixes and support for a new Qualcomm chipset and possibly some improvements in memory to make applications load faster are rumored to be in the update.
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Tablet Sales Grow, iPad Lead Shrinks Android tablets -- mostly Samsung's Galaxy Tab -- take 22% share in Q4 2010, erode Apple's supremacy
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Apple Facetime: Is Anyone Really Using It? I was excited about Facetime before I bought my iPhone 4 but I still have yet to use it -- and many people I know are in the same boat.
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