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Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of AllThingsD talked with Eric Schmidt of Google at an event held at Manhattan”s 92Y. The hour-long conversation discusses Apple’s Map debacle and the platform war between Google and Apple. “The Android-Apple platform fight is the defining fight in the industry today,” said Schmidt. He notes that this race is…
HTC confirmed to Fierce Wireless that the company is moving out of the tablet business in the US. This change in strategy isn’t very surprising as HTC only released three tablet models in the US and none of the products were big sellers. Though it is no longer selling tablets stateside, the company told Fierce…
According to French newspaper Le Figaro, the LG Nexus 4 will finally make its on October 29th. After a slew of rumors, followed by a few leaks, the next Nexus phone is finally upon us! Ironically, the October 29 date is the same day Microsoft will officially launch Windows Phone 8 — talk about a great…
It’s been rumored for a while that LG is going to make one of the next Nexus handsets. The latest piece of evidence to hit the rumor mill comes from The Verge, which has a screenshot of the inventory system from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse. Smack dab in the middle of the screen is a…
Research In Motion has made it known that consumers shouldn’t expect BlackBerry 10 handsets to hit the market until the start of 2013. An analyst believes the new devices won’t see the light of day until March. As a result, this leaves the Waterloo company a lot of time to build up BB10’s ecosystem. Today RIM announced it’s accepting…
Microsoft is finally bringing Office to both iOS and Android next year, according to product manager Petr Bobek. The manager said this at a press event in the Czech Republic earlier today, claiming apps will be made available from March 2013. The software maker also had this to say “In addition to Windows, Office will…
In a letter to Microsoft’s shareholders, CEO Steve Ballmer signaled that the Surface tablets and the trend towards Microsoft building its own devices represents a “fundamental shift underway in our business and the areas of technology that we believe will drive the greatest opportunity in the future.” With the statement, Ballmer indicated that shareholders should…
Motorola’s RAZR HD is now for sale on the Rogers Network in Canada. The 4.7″ Super AMOLED HD phone with Ice Cream Sandwich and 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 can be had for $100 with a customary 3-year contract, or $600 should you elect to go contract-free. Rogers offers slight discounts from the $600…
Samsung executive JK Shin confirmed that the company will use a press event in Germany on October 11 to introduce its new Galaxy S III mini. The 4-inch device was produced to meet demand in Europe for a smaller, but powerful Android handset. Soon after this report was published by iNews24 Korea, MobileGeeks leaked the…
This isn’t the first time we’re hearing that Google is working on the Nexus 10, an Android tablet with a 10-inch screen. Now thanks to CNet we have more to report on it, relying on words of Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, who quotes supply chain indications. According to him, the Google Nexus…