LG and Sharp failed to meet Apple’s quality requirements for its new iPad leaving Samsung as the sole supplier of Retina displays for the device, an analyst has claimed. See also New iPad review. Bloomberg reports that IHS iSuppli’s Vinita Jakhanwal has said that Samsung is currently the only company supplying the displays to Apple. [...]

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is the popular download of the month, and we decided to try out its vaunted touch interface. As stated before, Windows 8′s Metro UI is optimized for a touch interface, similar to the UI built into Windows Phone 7. It “worked”, but only with a clean install, rather than upgrading from [...]

FAIRVIEW PARK THEFT, WESTPARK DRIVE: A resident reported his laptop computer, cell phone and other devices were stolen March 5. The car was unlocked car in his driveway. THEFT, WESTGATE BUSINESS: March 5, someone removed a purse from a customer’s shopping cart. The purse was later found in the store, but $160 was stolen. CRIMINAL [...]

The iPad Reviews Are In: Faster, With an Outrageous Display Connie Guglielmo Forbes Staff AAPL Target Raised to $710 Canaccord Genuity Contributor Apple, Steam Pad, and the New Wave of Game Development Erik Kain Contributor Image via CrunchBase It sounds like a broken record, another day, another new high for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock. After crossing [...]

Much has been written about the smartphone‘s detrimental impact on point-and-shoot camera sales. Not enough has been written about an even bigger casualty of today’s do-everything phones: the once-revolutionary pocket camcorder. Look no further than the category-defining Flip: Originating just five years ago, Pure Digital’s pocket camcorder caught on as a surprise hit. Cisco quickly [...]

BEIJING, Mar 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – The global sales of tablet PC experienced an explosive growth in 2011, with a volume of 60.395 million and a revenue of RMB 234.33 billion, up 251.8% and 186.7% respectively year-on-year. New Features of Global Tablet PC Market in 2011 1. Diversified Products and Intensive Launch of New [...]

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 15, 2012 – You can buy two Desktop computers in price of a single laptop, that means laptops are more costly than desktops and have more proprietary parts which are only repaired or replaced by the brand itself and after expiring the warranty period they will charge whatever they want. [...]

More Expensive Gas Drives U.S. Wholesale Prices HigherAP Higher gas costs drove U.S. wholesale prices up last month. But excluding the big jump in gas, inflation was mostly …

By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Micron Technology made further gains Wednesday, helped by an analyst’s comment about the chipmaker emerging as a stronger player in a rapidly changing market. /quotes/zigman/75433/quotes/nls/mu MU 8.58, +0.09, +1.06% /quotes/zigman/1468249 SOX 426.65, -1.55, -0.36% Micron /quotes/zigman/75433/quotes/nls/mu MU +1.06%   rose 1.1% to close at $8.58 [...]

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