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Toyota's New Fuel Cell Car Does Not Impress Tesla's Elon Musk
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Samsung's Galaxy Gear an Epic Failure—Or is it?
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 9:35am | 566Investors, techies and consumers were all surprised by the announcement that Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) had produced a smart watch and brought it to market so quickly. After all of the talk of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) working on one of its own, came out of nowhere. But one report notes that the rush to...
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Is Google Chromecast Going Global?
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 2:43pm | 481Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) $35 video streaming device could be on the cusp of an international rollout. According to Engadget, the search engine giant is now allowing consumers outside of the United States to download the official Chromecast apps. Those apps are useless without a Chromecast, however...
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Google Ships 100,000 Moto X Units Every Week (GOOG)
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 4:21pm | 439Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and manufacturing partner Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) are shipping 100,000 Moto X units every week. Moto X, the flagship device from Google subsidiary Motorola, is the most customizable smartphone on the market. Customers can choose from a wide variety of color combinations...
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Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear, Galaxy Note 3 Ahead Of Apple's iPhone Event (SSNLF)
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 5:07pm | 553Looking to make a splash before Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) holds its long-awaited press conference next week, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) unveiled two new products today: Galaxy Gear and Galaxy Note 3. The latter item is a somewhat predictable upgrade with a Super AMOLED 5.7-inch display (versus the 5.5-inch...
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How to Trade a $200 Microsoft Surface Tablet
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 3:25pm | 992Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) shocked the world earlier in 2012 when it unveiled the "Surface" tablet. The 10-inch tablet will come loaded with Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system and is likely to compete directly with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. While it is yet unknown how much Microsoft will...
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Verizon Wireless Fined $1.25 Million for Blocking Tethering Apps
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 8:52am | 507Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has been hit with a $1.25 million fine after preventing users from turning their phones into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. The cellular carrier got into trouble after asking Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to remove select apps from Google Play, which was known as the Android Market at...
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Samsung's Secret Weapon Against Apple
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 1:49pm | 789Samsung is developing a new technology that could finally give it a significant edge over the iPhone. However, it's not an entirely new technology, but rather a more polished form of an existing technology that few consumers have had the chance to experience: a flexible display. Flexible displays...
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Has Apple Kicked Dell Out of the Tablet Market?
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 12:09pm | 779If you can't beat ‘em, run! That's the message Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been sending to tech companies that thought they could compete with the iPad after successfully posing a threat to the iPhone. But unlike the iPhone, which was limited in reach by an exclusive agreement with AT&T (NYSE: T...
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Is the Kindle Fire a Dud?
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 1:01pm | 895The reviews are starting to pour in, and they aren't screaming “iPad killer.” Not that anyone expected a $200 tablet to entirely defeat Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) much-loved tablet. But this is an Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) product, one with insurmountable hype, an insane amount of buzz, and a ridiculously...
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Apple Suing Motorola over Xoom
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 11:44am | 63Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) lawsuit against Samsung (SSNLF), which led to an injunction blocking the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in most of the EU, also included a section indicating that Apple is suing Motorola (NYSE: MMI) over the Xoom tablet.
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Nokia Showcases New N9 Smartphone
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 7:05am | 280Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new smartphone on Tuesday, featuring a 3.9-inch AMOLED screen made from scratch-resistant curved glass and an 8-megapixel HD-quality-capable video camera. Videos can be experienced in 16:9 widescreen format and the N9 is the world's first smartphone with Dolby Digital...
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Nintendo Cutting Price Of The Wii (NTDOY)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 12:42pm | 83Nintendo (NASDAQ: NTDOY) may be cutting the price of its popular gaming system, the Wii to $150, writes Engadget. The Wii is currently priced at $200, and started at $250 when it was first introduced in 2008. According to sources, the price of the Wii may drop to $150 on May 15th. At last check...
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Engadget Editors Leave AOL (AOL)
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 8:18am | 335As first reported from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, Josh Topolsky and Nilay Patel are leaving Engadget, which is owned by AOL (NYSE: AOL) and moving on. Topolsky was the editor-in-chief of Engadget, and Patel was a managing editor. Despite rumors persisting that it was related to the recent...
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Steve Jobs Calls iPad Competition In The Space "DOA"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 10:42am | 141In Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) recent earnings call Steve Jobs continued to rough up Research In Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) business model, saying that he "doesn't see them catching up in the foreseeable future," according to an Engadget report. Jobs admitted that Android outshipped the iPhone in the June...