Posts in Category: electronics

Microsoft Changes its “Zune” Strategy

Microsoft announced that it would stop making new models of Zune music and video players due to lukewarm demand, and concentrate instead on incorporating Zune software into mobile phones and other Microsoft platforms, reports Bloomberg.

Although Microsoft will stop making

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IPad 2 Launches to Long Lines and Sell outs

As expected, the iPad 2 launched yesterday to long lines outside Apple Stores and other retailers, which reported selling out of the coveted tablet within hours.

Analysts reported that the iPad 2 could sell anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million tablets

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Hackers Exploit IE, Blackberry, Safari at Pwn2Own

Researchers were able to crack into IE8; iPhone, Safari 5.0.3, and Blackberry at Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver this week and win $15,000 prizes.

According to HD Moore of Rapid7, the Pwn2Own contest is a yearly “reality check on

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Tablets and PCs: What the Future Holds

Are consumers more likely to buy a tablet than a PC this year? According to Apple’s Steve Jobs and recent Gartner research, the answer is undoubtedly yes.

At the launch of the Ipad 2 Steve Jobs carefully mused that the post-PC

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