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Nokia North American phone sales slashed in half in Q3
Sales of Nokia handsets in the North American market dived by 50-percent in Q3 2012 versus the previous quarter, the company has confirmed, with just 300,000 phones sold in the lucrative region. In...
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Nokia: Q4 2012 is likely to be rough too
Nokia may have a new range of Windows Phone 8 devices headed to stores imminently, but the company still predicts the next quarter will be a seriously difficult one. “Nokia expects the fourth quarter...
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Toyota installs massive 1.1-megawatt hydrogen fuel cell generator at its...
Toyota Motor Sales USA has announced that it has installed and activated a new and very large hydrogen fuel-cell generator on the campus at its Torrance, California headquarters. The new fuel cell was...
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JVC unveils new 55-inch 3D HDTV with integrated Wi-Fi and passive glasses
JVC has pulled the wraps off a new 3-D HDTV that uses passive 3-D glasses. The TV is a 55-inch JLE55SP4000 3D HDTV and features XinemaView 3D technology. The TV ships with four pairs of battery free...
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Cricket Wireless launches Huawei Boltz 4G modem
Cricket Wireless has added a new option to its lineup for users who need a 4G supporting USB modem for their laptop or desktop computer. The product is called the Huawei Boltz Modem. The modem is the...
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Canon offers updated firmware for EOS-1D X DSLR adding new features
Canon first announced its new EOS-1D X DSLR camera aimed at the professional photographer in October of 2011. The camera was slated to launch in March of 2012 with a high-end starting price of $6800....
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Acer Iconia A110 wades into budget tablet waters (but is it cheap enough?)
Acer has revealed its latest Android tablet, the Iconia A110, taking on Google’s Nexus 7 with a Tegra 3 powered 7-incher for $229.99. Fronted by a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 display and tipping the scales at...
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Acer Aspire ME and XC desktops get refreshed for Windows 8
Acer has revamped its Aspire ME and XC Series desktops in time for Windows 8, with the new PCs offering Microsoft’s latest OS in a choice of form-factors and with pricing from under $400. The Acer...
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Verizon sells 6.8m smartphones in Q3 2012
Verizon Wireless sold 6.8m smartphones in the last quarter, with service revenues in Q3 2012 climbing 7.5-percent year-on-year and 1.8m new customers inking agreements. Revenues hit $16.2bn for the...
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New scientific theory suggests the Moon was once part of the Earth
Scientists have been trying to determine for a long time exactly how the Earth came to have the moon. Many scientists have been studying how the planet was gifted with its satellite because the Earth...
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NASA weighing $1.5m autonomous drone challenge: Jetsons cars ahoy!
NASA is considering setting up a $1.5m bounty for anybody who can develop an autonomous drone capable of safely navigating the crowded skies above the US. Potentially part of the Centennial Challenges,...
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Iomega StorCenter px2-300d and ix4-300d share up to 12TB
Iomega has outed a pair of new network-attached storage (NAS) boxes, the StorCenter px2-300d and ix4-300d, promising high-speed backup and file/media access for demanding users. Both ominous black...
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Dolphins can sleep one-half of their brain at a time say researchers
Scientists from the United States have learned that dolphins are able to stay alert and active for 15 days or more at a time by sleeping only one-half of their brain. The experts believe that this...
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Newsweek to halt print edition, go all digital
Physical media has long been in a battle for its life, and this includes print publications. We’ve already seen other newspapers and magazine go the all-digital route, but today Newsweek announced that...
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Verizon sold 651,000 iPhone 5 in dying days of Q3
Verizon has quietly confirmed its iPhone 5 sales performance in Q3 2012, with over 650,000 of the latest Apple smartphones sold up until the end of September. Speaking on the carrier’s financial...
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Judge denies Apple’s request to seal financial documents
If you didn’t know, Apple and Samsung are still going at it, and today Judge Lucy Koh of the US District Court denied Apple’s request to have several financial documents sealed from public view. Said...
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Yelp announces Consumer Alerts, lets you know when reviews are paid
When reading reviews of restaurants you’re interested in trying, it can be difficult to sift out the shill reviews and only spot the ones that are genuine. However, Yelp is looking to make it easier on...
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: October 18th, 2012
This morning it’s all about the sales of the Nokia devices, with 2.9 million Windows Phones shipped thus far, North American phone sales slashed in half in the third quarter, and Q4 set up for less...
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Calxeda announces plans to use 64-bit ARM chips in 2014
Calxeda, which claims to be the first company that implemented ARM processors in servers, has announced its plans to use 64-bit ARM chips in its servers by 2014. The server start-up company detailed...
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Nokia’s Elop: A “Surface” Windows Phone 8? Bring it on!
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has dismissed concerns that Microsoft might sway the Windows Phone 8 market by releasing a “Surface” branding smartphone of its own, saying instead that the company would welcome...
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