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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Nokia is going to close two of their four sales offices in China. To be more specific, the offices in Chengdu and Shanghai will be shut down and people will get laid off. Nokia isn’t saying how many people will lose their jobs, or when the…
There’s a term in the consumer electronics industry called the “Osborne effect“. Without getting into the whole story, once upon a time there was a company that launched a product. People loved said product. The company said the next version would be even better, so people decided to just wait. Sales dried up to such…
Ask Nokia how the Lumia 900 is doing in the United States and they’ll tell you that it’s been getting great reviews on Amazon. Ask them to give you some sales numbers, and they’ll just dodge the question and point you to a consumer survey that says Lumia owners are very satisfied with their purchase.…
Thought HTC was done with the One line for now? Think again. It looks like that One XXL may be real after all. A new benchmark has popped up, showing a new HTC handset rocking a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor and Ice Cream Sandwich in tow. Will this be HTC’s flagship handset for the second…
As rumored, Sprint will be launching a white version of the EVO 4G LTE this Sunday. Following in the steps of the EVO 4G and the EVO 3D before it, the white version of HTC’s latest EVO handset might be a little more appealing than the original handset’s color scheme, which not too many people were fond…
The Samsung Galaxy S III went on sale today at Verizon Wireless. The Andoid smartphone is available in a 16GB configuration for $199 and a 32GB size for $249. Both options include a two-year customer agreement. Color choices on Verizon include a Pebble Blue and Marble White. The Galaxy S III has an impressive set…
Just when you thought the Nexus 7 couldn’t be anymore mystical, think again. A YouTube user by the name of wwscoggin discovered a hidden feature within the Jelly Bean Android 4.1 powered slate. It turns out, the Nexus 7 has been found to feature a Smart Cover-like magnetic sensor that, with the proper cover, will turn…
When it comes to technology, New York has been doing many interesting things as of late. Just yesterday, we reported how the Empire State was in the process of turning all its old payphones into free WiFi hotspots. If that wasn’t enough innovation for ya’, there’s more. NYC announced today that it will be testing…
AT&T and Sprint are rolling out an update for the Samsung Galaxy S III that will remove the universal search bar, limiting the search functionality to web and not including locally-installed stuff like apps, contacts and messages. It is said that the move is related to Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung, which prompted Google and the…
Amazing Alex is now available for iPhone and Android devices, with PC, Mac and Windows Phone versions following soon. Rovio, which is best known for its Angry Birds franchise, turned to Facebook to share the good news from where we also got the links to download the game. For some reason, searching for Amazing Alex…