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Apple Set to Reveal Ipad 2 on March 2
Apple is planning a major event in San Francisco on March 2 and is expected to show off the highly anticipated and speculated about Ipad 2. Apple sent out invitations to the media to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has been a venue of choice for many Apple product unveilings such as…
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Mobile Phones Increase Brain Metabolism
A new study shows that using a mobile phone for 50 minutes increases brain metabolism and sugar usage in the region closest to the antenna. With the vast majority of the population using mobile phones; 91 percent in the United States averaging 21 minutes a day, according to the Boston Globe, people have become naturally…
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Weak PC Sales Worries Industry
While PC sales for businesses are on the rise, PC consumer sales declined last quarter, raising the question of whether Apple or the Smartphone industry is to blame. According to Computerworld, businesses bought a lot of computer hardware last month, with HP reporting an increase of 33 percent; Dell says its large enterprise revenue went…
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Kindle’s New Commercial Takes a Swing at Ipad
Amazon’s Kindle is stepping up its game with a new commercial that not only highlights its main attributes, but tries to knock down its main competitor, the Ipad by “poking fun” at some of its shortcomings, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The commercial is only 31 seconds long, and pinpoints its unique features that separate…
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New MacBook Pro Rumors Circulate the Net
After last week’s rumors regarding the release date of March 1 for the new MacBook Pro, there is now talk that the Apple Refresh is now as imminent as Friday, February 24. One of the signs pointing in this direction is that Apple has stopped the immediate shipment of its MacBook notebooks. The Atlantic put…
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Obama Meets With Jobs and Other Industry Leaders
President Obama dined with technology industry leaders, such as Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday, while on a two-day tour of California and Oregon. He met with the industry leaders in the San Francisco Bay area to promote technological innovation as a…
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IBM’s Watson Beats out Human Rivals
IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, won $1 Million, and beat out two of the best Jeopardy players in history after a 3 night marathon. Watson was able to accumulate $77,147 during the game, while Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings collected $24,000 and Brad Rutter a mere $21,600. Ken Jennings is known to have won a total of 74…
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Apple’s New MacBook Due in March
Although later than expected, Apple is due to release its new MacBook pros in early march according to AppleInsider. The information began circulating last week when a Danish blogger, Kenneth Lund said he received an anonymous tip from a retail store that is one of “three major chains in the Danish market” that an updated…
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LG Eyes Major Comeback in 2011
LG is planning a comeback this year. It has unveiled the world’s first 3D phone and plans to ship 150 million phones in 2011. LG has not been faring well lately, its global smartphone market share dropped to the single digits last year at 8.4 percent and only shipped 116.7 phones instead of its projected…
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What is the Global Storage Capacity?
People have access to more and more storage. According to researchers, the world’ storage capacity is estimated at 295 Exabytes. A study released by the University of Southern California, and published in Science Express has revealed that the amount of storage the world’ population has used between 1986 and 2007 equaled about 1.2 billion hard…