Wednesday
Jan302013

Video: Demo of the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone

Tucked away in a dark corner at today's BlackBerry 10 launch in Toronto was the other BB10 smartphone, the Q!0. Featuring a new and improved QWERTY keyboard, the Q10 is the evolution of the classic BlackBerry smartphone like the Bold 9900.  The Q10 is coming later this year. Here's a brief walkthrough video.

Wednesday
Jan302013

SlideShow: BlackBerry 10 launch event in Toronto

BY Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We're live at the BlackBerry 10 launch in Toronto, here are some photos of the event so far as it unfolds. RIM is no more and is now known as BlackBerry. CEO Thorsten Heins released the Q10 and the Z10 handsets as well as the new mobile OS.  

Tuesday
Jan292013

Breaking: Philips sells off consumer electronics business for $201 million

A report from the Wall Street Journal reveals that Philips has left consumer electronics after 80 years. The Dutch multinational just sold its entire Lifestyle Entertainment business (encompassing audio, video, multimedia and accessories) to Japanese conglomerate Funai Electric Co. Philips was unable to compete with the low cost Asian manufacturers in the industry and was also impacted by the move from physical media to digital files for audio and video.

"Our consumer lifestyle business was margin dilutive to the group, so it was time to decide to move away from consumer electronics,” said Frans van Houten, Philips’s chief executive.

“Since we have online entertainment, people do not buy Blu-ray and DVD players anymore,” Mr. Van Houten added. Philips will continue its other industrial businesses as well as in lighting products where it is considered one of the leading companies.

Source: WSJ

Tuesday
Jan292013

Apple now offers a 128GB iPad with Retina Display

Apple today released an update to its iPad line with a model that has 128GB of storage costing $799 for the WiFi only version and $929 for the WiFi + 4G version. The ramping up of storage capacity puts the flagship iPad in competition with Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro tablet which will arrive next month and which has both 64GB and 128GB variants. This opens the window to a 128GB iPhone 5, which will leapfrog current smartphone capacities in the high end right now. Hit jump for the full release.

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