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24th April 2012
Apple's Tim Cook rejects idea of laptop-tablet hybrids

Apple's boss has dismissed the idea of mixing laptops and tablets into a hybrid product.Chief executive Tim Cook said the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would "wind up compromising" both.

24th April 2012
Nokia May Be Down, But They’re Not Out

As bad as Nokia’s financials look right now – a $4 billion drop in sales won’t make anyone’s day – don’t consider the Windows Phone move a failure just yet. They’ve done what many phone companies have thus far failed to do. They’ve changed swiftly with the times and, more important, they’ve done it in quite admirable way.

24th April 2012
Apple Q2 2012: 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads, 4M Macs, and 7.7M iPods

Apple just released its second quarter financial numbers. Overall hardware sales decreased from its record previous quarter but with the notable exception of the iPods: they’re up from the same quarter a year ago. Apple sold 88% more iPhones in the quarter than it did during the same time last year.

24th April 2012
Tablet sales to top 760M worldwide by 2016, and a third will be iPads

According to Forrester Research, tablets are rapidly becoming the primary device of choice for millions of people around the world. Sales of tablet computers in 2016 are predicted to hit 375 million, and 760 million tablets could be in use worldwide. Compared to the 56 million tablets purchased worldwide in 2011, that’s a compound annual-growth rate of 46 percent.

24th April 2012
'Always on' Britons spend a quarter of their money online

The easy availability of the internet on mobile devices has led to a boom in spending online, according to a survey from WorldPay, an internet payments system.

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