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| 6 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Tablet-Friendly | | There are nearly 70 million tablet users in the U.S. alone, a figure that has doubled from the year before. This means that nearly 30% of the country's Internet users are browsing on a tablet device. Tablet traffic to e-commerce sites grew by 348% from 2011 to 2012, overtaking smartphone traffic for the first time. With the tablet market as young as it is, its footprint is only going to expand.
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| Solar Charger Powers a Smartphone After a Day in the Sun | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:33 PM | Charlie White |
| Place this smartphone-sized charger in the sun for a day, and it will be able to charge your smartphone or tablet and give you eight hours of reading light, too. That's the claim of the makers of the Wakawaka Power Compact Solar Charger, a Kickstarter project that's far surpassed its original expectations. It's received more than $232,000 worth of pledges, blasting through its $50,000 goal with 8 days to go.
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| Samsung Brings the Sexy to Windows 8 Touch Laptops | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:00 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung launched a varied selection of Windows 8 devices when Microsoft's new operating system debuted in October, but its only touch-screen laptop was the Series 5 Ultrabook. Now it's expanding its selection of touch laptops with the Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra PCs. The Series 7 Ultra (above) is definitely the looker of the pair. A proper Ultrabook, the laptop has a 13.3-inch touch screen with full HD resolution: 1,920 x 1,080.
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| Can CES Survive the Mobile Revolution? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:15 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| I'm in CES prep mode: Crawling through hundreds of emails, making last-minute appointments, trying to ferret out interested bits of gee-whiz information from tight-lipped tech companies. On the surface, it's a rerun of the past nine years of my life. Deep down, however, I know that CES 2013 is different, and not necessarily in a good way. It's the first year since 1999 that Microsoft will not deliver the keynote address.
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| Google's Eric Schmidt Is Going to North Korea | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:19 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google, is reportedly planning a visit to a somewhat unusual locale: North Korea. Schmidt is joining a private humanitarian trip being organized by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, according to the Associated Press citing "two people familiar with the group's plans." Schmidt's visit will be the first to North Korea by a top Google executive.
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| Court Dismisses Apple's Suit Against Amazon Over 'App Store' | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:26 PM | Emily Price |
| To Apple's dismay, a court ruling Wednesday allows Amazon to continue using the term "app store" in reference to its online marketplace for apps. In 2011 Apple claimed that Amazon using the term was false advertising, and that customers might mistake Amazon's store for Apple's based on the terminology. The company sued Amazon for not only false advertising but also trademark infringement and unfair competition.
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| 9 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do Online | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:13 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You can do almost anything online these days -- order your groceries, video chat with a faraway friend, make your own business cards, find the answer to just about any query and countless other tasks.
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| Coming Soon to a Smartphone Near You: Ubuntu | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:09 PM | Christina Warren |
| The popular open-source operating system Ubuntu is coming to smartphones. Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, announced its new smartphone interface Tuesday. The company will be holding a press call later this afternoon, and showing off the OS at CES. This isn't Ubuntu's first foray into devices outside of the desktop.
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| iPhone 5S to Be Available in Multiple Colors and Sizes? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 1:20 PM | Charlie White |
| The next iPhone could be a whole lot more colorful. Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets, claims that the next iPhone will be available in additional colors and more screen sizes than the iPhone 5. To get an idea of what White's talking about, we offer you the graphic above which shows the latest iPod Touch in its various colors.
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| 4 Predictions for Tablets in 2013 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:56 PM | Rob Lammle |
| 2012 was the year of the tablet. Although final numbers are still rolling in, a recent report from International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that the worldwide tablet market has reached an astounding 122.3 million units, nearly double the number from 2011. With that kind of momentum, what can we expect to see in the coming year for tablets? Let’s take a look.
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| Acer and Asus Bid Farewell to the Netbook | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:13 PM | TabTimes |
| A new report reveals that Acer and Asus will stop making netbooks, marking another sign that the tablet rise is no fad. First introduced in late 2007 as a smaller and cheaper alternative to the notebook, the netbook had, at one point, been expected to top 139 million units in 2010, with models from big names like Samsung, HP, Dell, Acer, Asus and Toshiba among others.
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| Windows 8 Now on 1.78% of All Computers | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:19 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Usage of Windows 8 is ticking up since its release in late October. Microsoft's latest Windows operating system is now installed on 1.78% of all computers in use, according to Net Applications, which measures OS market share. The latest numbers show Windows 8 accounting for 1.78% of computers in use.
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| Kia to Integrate Google Maps and Places Into Its Cars | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:03 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Kia Motors America has signed a deal with Google to integrate Google's content and search-based solutions into its UVO eServices telematics system. The first vehicle to get the Google treatment will be Kia's 2014 Sorento, with the first new features being driving directions and POI location powered by Google Maps and Google Places.
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