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$50 Motorola Photon 4G or iPhone 3GS for a Dollar?: Discount Smartphone Deals

The Apple iPhone 3GS
Sprint is selling the normally $100 priced Motorola Photon 4G for $50 on its Web site, the discounted iPhone 3GS is only one dollar from AT&T, and T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 710 is just $40 (online price). If your smartphone shopping on a budget, or if you need to add a new line to your current contract, these might be the best choices for you. They are all quite different, besides being offered on different carriers. But for the price, they are tough to beat, especially the Photon 4G because it ...
BlackBerry PlayBook

Amazon Kindle Fire vs Blackberry Playbook: How Do They Stack Up?

Amazon's Kindle Fire or RIM's Blackberry Playbook? Undoubtedly both the tablets are well-designed with lot of apps. They are 7-inch in size and have the multi-touch display. Both have dual core processors. And users of both tablets can access loads of content too.
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OnLive Desktop

iPad 3 with the OnLive Desktop App: The Ultimate Mobile Device?

OnLive, a company known for streaming games, has released a new iPad app that can run the Windows OS at lightning-fast speeds, something the purportedly 4G LTE-enabled iPad 3 could turn into an unstoppable combination. The OnLive Desktop app uses cloud based technology to shrink down the Windows environment into a usable size for the iPad (Android, Macs and PCs too, eventually).
A promotional woman shows a Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld gaming device at Tokyo Game Show in Chiba

Sony's Vita Arrives Just as Market May Be Fading

Sony Corp's Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo's Game Boy and Atari's Lynx. But with gaming habits rapidly changing, it may also be the last of its breed.
Rapportive, which is still available over Gmail, adds an e-mailers social networking accounts, including their Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and overlays the information over open messages and e-mail drafts.

Why LinkedIn Bought Rapportive: 'We Fell in Love'

Business networking site LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that provides information about your social contacts as you e-mail them. The deal was reportedly already in place by Dec. 8, but Rapportive confirmed the acquisition on Wednesday on its company blog.
Apple Founding Document Signed by Steve Jobs Auctions for $1.6 Million  (Photos)

Apple’s Annual Meeting: 3 Things to Watch

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is scheduled to convene its annual shareholder meeting Thursday at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.Here are three ket items to watch for.
Nook Tablet

$199 Nook Tablet or BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0: Which Should you Buy?

Barnes & Noble have reduced the price of their Nook Tablet to $199, and the BlackBerry PlayBook has a new software update (OS 2.0) integrating thousands of new apps, but which should you buy? The seven-inch tablet space just got a whole lot juicier because now both the PlayBook, Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire are $199, a price that looks to be the point at which many new tablet owners will grab one. It's proved to be successful for the Kindle Fire because it's now the best selling Android tab...
Microsoft already has several apps available on the iPad and iPhone, including Bing, MSN OnPoint, MSN Onit, Windows Live Messenger, Wonderwall, and Microsoft Tag. However, Microsoft's Office suite, which includes Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, an

iPad 3 Release: Is Microsoft Office for iPad Apple's 'One More Thing?'

In November 2011, Rupert Murdoch's tablet-only digital magazine The Daily discovered that Microsoft was planning to build a version of Microsoft Office for the iPad. On Tuesday, sources tell The Daily that the Microsoft Office app will soon be submitted to Apple for approval in its App Store.
Mountain Lion Vs Windows 8

Mountain Lion vs Windows 8: Top 5 Features That Show Microsoft is Inspired by Apple

With the increasing dominance of mobile devices, Apple and Microsoft are trying to mobilize their PC operating systems too. Apple has released a developer preview of its Mac OS X 10.8 operating system, nicknamed Mountain Lion, which brings popular apps and features from the iPad to the Mac and will accelerate the pace of OS X innovation.

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