From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Fastseller: sales of the new operating system Microsoft Windows 7 reached 60 million

Microsoft has summed up the results of the second quarter of its current fiscal year. According to the data, the Redmond company’s net profit for the past three months amounted to 6.66 billion dollars, which shows an increase of 60 percent compared with the previous figures.

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Apple iPad eyeing enterprise: network files and printing tipped

Considering its seemingly consumer focus, the amount of time Apple spent discussing the newly fettled iWork suite for the iPad tablet seemed a little incongruous. According to Apple Insider’s sources, however, that’s all part of a plan to drive business sales of the tablet; they reckon Apple are preparing to add in direct network

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Slate Showdown: iPad vs. HP Slate vs. JooJoo vs. Android Tablets & More (UPDATED)

Everybody’s talking about tablets, especially those single-pane capacitive touchscreen ones more specifically known as “slates.” The iPad is the biggest newsmaker, but there are lots headed our way (most with built-in webcams). Here’s how they measure up, spec-wise:

Updated: We’ve added Lenovo IdeaPad U1 and Archos 9 Windows 7 edition—see below for more details.
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Nav4All shuttered as NAVTEQ withhold licence; Nokia blamed

Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers

Dear Customers,

It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the

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The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right

Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in with Macintosh? My, how times have changed. Here we are more than 25 years later and the despotic, all-knowing face up there on that…

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QWERTY T-Mobile myTouch Slide spotted

Ugly. Sorry, but it’s word-association-Friday here at SlashGear, and we’re singularly uninspired by what’s tipped to be the T-Mobile myTouch Slide, headed to the carrier in mid-May. Initially described as the hardware-keyboard version of the HTC Magic (aka myTouch 3G), Droiddeveloper’s source delivered not only front and back shots of the Android handset

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