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iPod Fuels Apple’s Best Quarter

Apple Inc. stocks jumped over 7 per cent yesterday after Apple posted a record quarterly earnings with an 88% rise in profit compared to a year ago or $US770 in real money. Gross margins increased by 35.5%. Chris Armruster, a market analyst, called it “pretty unbelievable.” Apple’s profits in the last quarter came from the [...]

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Apple CFO: iPhone Will Launch Late June

This is as official as it gets, short of Steve Jobs going on Jay Leno and “spilling the beans.” Well, one coul dream. Apple Chief Operating Officer, Peter Oppenheimer, announced Wednesday that the iPhone is on track for a late June release. In a phone interview he told Reuters Apple expects to ship the [...]

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Neonumeric Comes Out With NM5

It wasn’t long ago when Neonumeric’s successor to the NM3, the NM4, was announced and now here comes NM5. The NM5 has a better TFT LCD screen measuring 2.4 inches 320 x 240. It supports similar files formats as its predecessor: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV for audio and AVI (XviD, WMV, MPEG, MPG, MOV [...]

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Microsoft Not Thinking About a Zune Phone

The Zune phone seemed like a far-fetched idea now after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered the Zune Phone question of USA Today correspondent David Lieberman at the USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington: Steve Ballmer: “It’s not a concept you’ll ever get from us. We’re in the Windows Mobile business. We can put [...]

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Zarva MV300 Adds 1.3MP Camera to HDTV Touchscreen

Another Chinese PMP maker is making noise in the portable media player market. The official Photo Shop images are quite unflattering, but the specs tell a different story. It is the first use of high-precision digital Touchscreen technology in a flash-based PMP product - just move your hands over the 3.5-inch HDTV screen and [...]

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LG KS10: is This the Google Phone?

The Google phone is the LG KS10 (above). It is a slider, , and awill come out in April in Italy. It’s not this. Or at least not this year. The KS10 is pretty regular smartphone, using Symbian OS, like all Nokia smartphones, including this multimedia wonder. The KS10 has a 2.4-inch, 2 megapixel [...]

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Google Beats Microsoft, Yahoo! as Top Brand

Google has become the top ranking brand passing rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! according to market research firm Millward Brown in a report they published to Financial Times. It wasn’t just its technology rivals Google beat, even General Electric (GE) has to play second fiddle to the search engine giant. Microsoft is number 3 while [...]

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Xoro HDS 7510 is a PMP, DVD Player Freeview Viewer

The Xoro HDS 7510 boasts a unique 9.2-inch 800 x 400 LCD screen. It’s both a DVD and CD player and a portable TV supporting Freeview in the U.K. This is an honest to goodness portable entertainment center also playing MP3 and MP4 audio and video player and views images as well. It uses SD [...]

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Archos and CinemaNow Partner for PMP Content

In a press release yesterday Archos and CinemaNow announced that they will partner up to bring online video content directly to users. It’s not mentioned how exactly the content will be delivered, what kind of access users will have to the CinemaNow content, nor what it would cost. So far there is just a vague timeframe, [...]

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