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Customers looking to buy a mobile phone at Target retail stores will have one less purchasing option starting this spring. According to a Wall Street Journal report, RadioShack will remove its mobile phone kiosks from 1,500 Target stores. This shutdown will begin in April. RadioShack signed a deal with Target in 2010 to setup and…
Samsung has expanded the Galaxy Note into a full tablet form factor after garnering unexpected success with the original Galaxy Note smartphone. Behold the Galaxy Note 10.1. It features a 10.1-inch display, a little under double that of the Galaxy Note handset, with a 1280×800 resolution, plus is packed with a 5MP camera on the…
Though its success is far from reaching the level of the likes of Samsung, ZTE is beginning to prove itself a worthy smartphone competitor. Up until recently, people didn’t really pay much attention to the company, but 2012 was a good year for ZTE. Judging by CES 2013 so far, it looks like the manufacturer…
There’s been more than a little speculation lately about Apple’s iPhone 5 sales and the possibility that it may not be doing as well in the market as everyone expected. Especially with the recent price drop of the iPhone 5 at Walmart, which is about as rare as a precious gem, it looked like the…
The previously announced Samsung Galaxy Camera, an Android-powered touchscreen digital camera with 4G LTE connectivity, is on its way to Verizon Wireless. Though the Galaxy Camera was announced for AT&T’s network in November, its speeds were limited to HSPA+. The Verizon version is the first to ship with 4G LTE. This announcement doesn’t come as…
Do you remember that phone that went viral a few years ago? The Pomegranate? Everybody considered it their dream phone and some people even thought it was real and wanted to pre-order it. It featured a coffee brewer, built-in shaver, built-in harmonica, built-in projector, global voice translator, and all the regular features of a smartphone…
Gene Munster of the Piper Jaffray investment firm, known for snooping around to gather data about Apple, did exactly that this Black Friday when he sent his team over to the Mall of America in Minneapolis to monitor foot traffic and sales. They spied on the Apple Store for eight hours, but this year they…
You know, many have predicted for years now that the world would come to an end in 2012. I didn’t want to believe it — perhaps I’m just an unabashed optimist — but now, it has come to my attention it’s really happening. The end is near and it’s because the once presumably flawless Apple…
No surprise here, but NVIDIA’s earnings were quite generous in third quarter of 2012, to say the least. Its revenue reached an all-time quarterly high as it brought in $1.2 billion. That’s up 15.3 percent from last quarter and 12.9 percent from the year-ago quarter. Profits rose to $209.1 million during the quarter and the gross…
Apple, the company that is famous for attracting long lines to product launches like the iPhone or iPad at its retail stores worldwide, is in the news today for a similar reasons, but with a twist: the length of those lines, for once, were actually below many expectations. “The turnout for Apple’s release of the iPad Mini…