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HTC Shows Off First Tablet, Android Phone With Facebook Button and More

in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 12:55 am PT

HTC became the latest company to “friend” Facebook, showing off a pair of Android phones that have a button for connecting directly to the social network. It also used Mobile World Congress to show off its first tablet and other Android devices.

When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

Acer to Apple: Don’t Mind Us. We’ll Just Keep Making These “Cheap Laptops.”

in News on February 1, 2010 at 11:01 am PT

Come summer, Acer will enter the arena for e-book readers, releasing a device with a six-inch monochrome screen. The company will also debut an online applications store from which it will peddle apps for Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Mobile operating systems and for Google’s Android platform. But Acer has no plans to launch a touchscreen tablet to compete with Apple’s new iPad, despite the fact that Chairman J.T. Wang recently said his company was “developing something” along those lines.

Apple to Flip Off Cisco With New iPods

in News on July 23, 2009 at 12:53 pm PT

Cisco’s acquisition of Pure Digital, developer of the Flip digital video camera, may prove an ill-timed one. For while the Flip currently dominates the market that it largely created, it’s about to be taken to the mat by a new and formidable rival: Apple.
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