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Why isn’t Apple a top tech brand? Essentially, the company’s products are too expensive, the executive vice president responsible for Harris Interactive’s brand consulting division said late Wednesday. A Harris poll of 25,000 U.S. consumers raised eyebrows Tuesday when the survey revealed that Apple’s brand didn’t win out in either […]
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There was an interesting article in Information Week regarding the state of piracy and whether piracy represents a market failure. In the piece, the various remedies for software companies are outlined and various pundits chime in with opinions about the cause of piracy, missing many points. Understanding why piracy exists […]
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Next week, RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, will finally go on sale. Before we took the PlayBook to the labs for testing and itsfull review, we unboxed the tablet and played with it, taking photos all along the way, to give you a look at what you’ll get if […]
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When Cisco released the Valet Plus ($90, 4.5 stars), it had raised the bar for wireless router setup. Other vendors, I predicted, were sure to follow suit. Since then, most of the newer routers on the market feature the same sort of easy setup, making routers simpler than ever for […]
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Some lists pick themselves. Then there’s the list of the most influential technology. After a good amount of debate around the PCMag offices, we’ve opted to let you, the reader, help us choose the winners. We’ve split our coverage up into five categories—desktops and laptops, software, cell phones, consumer electronics, […]
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I’ve decided to combine the words iPhone and porn in the headline to see exactly how many page views I’ll get. The same dingbats that used to flock to any PCMag story about porn seem to now flock, drooling, to any story about the iPhone. The iPhone and Apple in […]
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This week, top execs at Dell, HP, and Microsoft took turns bashing the Apple iPad. Dell said it was doomed to fail in the enterprise world; HP said its channel partners couldn’t stand Apple’s arrogance; Microsoft called tablets a “fad.” Microsoft also took another shot at Apple’s increasingly unpopular attempt […]
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There are few good reasons for Microsoft to be happy at the moment. Windows Mobile 6.5 Phone Final– New UI, Zune like has at last been announced for availability from October 6th. Also opening Oct. 6 is the Windows Marketplace, Microsoft’s app store for all 6.X Windows phones, which we’re […]
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We’ve been hearing about Windows mobile 7 for a while now. The launch will mimic Google’s Nexus one strategy: Launch Zune Phone Microsoft’s long-rumored ‘Pink’ phone project has started to get up again. In a note to clients few days back, Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert claimed that Microsoft is gearing […]
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NMS and Dialogic followed two utterly different paths in their attempts to succeed in the mobile value added services (VAS) sector. Needless to say, the consequences were interesting. We take a closer look. most of you have used ring back tones or any other form of mobile VAS (value added […]