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Windows Phone 7 Launch Disappointing, LG Exec Says
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive. “From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James Choi, a marketing strategy and planning team director for LG Electronics, apparently told…
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Goes on Indefinite Medical Leave
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Jan. 17 in an e-mail to Apple employees that he’ll be taking another medical leave of absence to focus on his health. Jobs didn’t offer any details about his health, or how long he plans to be on his board-sanctioned leave, but he wrote that he’ll continue to act as…
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Businesses Will Buy 10 Million Tablets in 2011: Deloitte
Companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year, consultancy Deloitte said on Tuesday supporting recent research from Gartner which sees the global market for Apple’s iPad, rising to 55 million devices this year from 19.5 million in 2010. "Although some commentators view tablets as underpowered media-consumption toys suitable only for consumers… in…
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Two Charged in iPad Hacking Scheme
U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer were each charged with one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization, prosecutors said. The…
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EMC Unveils VNX Unified Storage Platform
EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced the release of a family of unified storage systems—EMC VNX. The new storage solutions consolidate the features and functionality of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single family of unified storage arrays that scale from entry-level to data center-class systems. The VNXe (for entry) series is…