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Apple Posts Second Straight Profit Gain as IPhone Sales Jump
www.businessweek.com

After facing questions about whether it can build breakthrough products without co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple is prepping new bigger-screen iPhones, a wearable gadget and an upgrade to its Apple TV set-top box, people familiar with the plans have said.

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Review: Amazon's Fire Phone offers new gimmicks, old platform growing pains
arstechnica.com

It's jumping into the high–end smartphone market surprisingly late in the game. The market started showing signs of saturation, and its competitors are entrenched. At $649 unlocked for a 32GB phone ($199 with a two-year contract), it doesn't have a …

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3 Great Semiconductor Stocks to Buy This Summer – Analyst Blog
www.nasdaq.com

In IoT, everyday gadgets get connected to the cloud to use/share information easier. … But the reason for the earnings surprise of 47.06% in the last quarter was its high–end GPUs for traditional desktop and notebook markets. So the company is …

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Apple's Earnings: iPhone Sales, China and Other Key Areas to Watch
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Gadget Wars. Technology giants are making a big push to bring more hand-held devices to consumers at a faster pace, creating fresh ammunition in the cutthroat gadget wars. Apple, long seen as the innovator in smartphones, has been wrestling with an …

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Hands-on with Xiaomi's Mi 4: A gorgeous, robust phone with high-end specs at a …
thenextweb.com

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi released its fourth-generation smartphone today and the Mi 4 is impressive — largely because the company has finally used metal for the frame of its phone, getting rid of the plasticky feel that was a letdown in …

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Sony's Resurrected Walkman Making Waves
www.pcmag.com

While The Wall Street Journal called the resurrected Walkman a "niche product" for Sony, the high–end music player has reportedly been selling very well in Japan. The ZX1 has actually been available since last December in Japan, and can also be had in …

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Most Wearable Technology Has Been a Commercial Failure, Says Historian
io9.com

Ryan shows how the Walkman benefited from being an adaptation of a device that was already being mass-produced, from a hugely successful marketing strategy, and from a popularity of gadgets associated with "Japaneseness" in Western markets.

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Nvidia Unveils Gaming Tablet to Spread Chips Into Devices
www.bloomberg.com

Shield Tablet, based on the company's K1 chip and Google Inc.'s Android operating system, is also designed to show Android can be the basis of high–end gaming machinery. The new product will be sold alongside the Shield hand-held device that Nvidia …

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India's Online Passport Application Service to Start in the UK
gadgets.ndtv.com

India on Monday announced the launch of an online-only passport application service in the UK from Wednesday, a move aimed at streamlining services provided by the Indian mission in London. "Applications for Passports will be accepted at the High …

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