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Amazon To Put Roots Down With Bookstores?
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 10:00am | 558E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been blamed for falling sales at brick and mortar competitors like Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company's dominance in the retail market was often attributed to the convenience of online...
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Is BlackPhone 2 Replacing BlackBerry?
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 11:57am | 265Silent Circle claimed at a launch event that its new secure smartphone, the Blackphone 2, it is going to replace BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), according to a Gizmodo report. The company's security specialist, Mike Janke, said, "We don't care that BlackBerry's CEO is throwing...
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Sensor Issues In Apple's 5S May Be Linked To A New Supplier
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 7:45am | 485After a story in Gizmodo seemed to prove that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) had a motion sensor issue, one tech blogger believes he found the answer: the accelerometer. Originally, reports began appearing on the internet noting that the new iPhone’s motion sensors were wrong specifically when it came to...
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'Jobs' Movie An iFlop
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 9:42am | 652Maybe we’ll get iLynched for declaring Jobs a failure, but it will take some digging to find reviews singing the praises of the movie that starred Ashton Kutcher as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs. First, the stats. The movie finished the weekend in seventh place, grossing $6.7...
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Landmark Surgery for ALS Patient Ted Harada Set for Today
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 7:50am | 315When Neuralstem (NYSE: CUR) announced that it had been successful in reversing the progression of ALS in 39-year-old Ted Harada, many wondered if researchers were finally on the cusp of a cure. Gizmodo chronicled the impressive story of the man, who showed signs of recovery last year after...
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Is Apple Killing Off the MacBook?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 1:46pm | 326The iPad is slowly taking over the laptop market. Does this mean the MacBook's days are numbered? Last year, there were mountains of reports suggesting that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) would cease development of its old-school white MacBook due to slowing sales and the rise of the MacBook Air. Now rumors...
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Google Wants to Destroy the iPad 3
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 12:56pm | 990The Android maker is getting ready for a full-scale assault on the tablet industry's leading manufacturer. And by May 2012, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will have its own tablet on store shelves. That's the word from company exec Eric Schmidt, who said that the new device will be of the highest quality....
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iPad 3's Biggest Competitor Will Be…
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 10:45am | 406A company that rhymes with “oogle.” According to Gizmodo, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release its own iPad 3 competitor within six months. The news comes from Google's own Eric Schmidt, who told this Italian publication that the company is getting ready to produce a tablet of the “highest quality...
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Netflix Already In Trouble as @Qwikster Gives Company a Bad Name
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:48pm | 214Remember when we thought Netflix was having a bad week? It's about to get worse. Following the mind-boggling announcement that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will sever its DVD business and apply a new name, Qwikster, Gizmodo has come across one stumbling block the corporate execs surely missed. On...
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Proof the Government DOES NOT Create Jobs!?
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 3:13pm | 168In fact, it actually kills them – 70,000 applicants at a time. During a four-day server outage last week, the government job website USAJobs.gov lost 70,000 applications. That's according to the Federal Times (via Gizmodo), which reports that many job seekers couldn't even submit a new application...
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Orange Juice a Luxury Item? REAL OJ Already Is
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 1:27pm | 948It turns out that the reports were right – orange juice has become a luxury. In fact, real orange juice became a luxury several years ago when Tropicana, the fruit juice producer owned by PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), decided to market “not-from-concentrate” orange juice as a premium product. Or so the...
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Bitcoin: Too Good to Be True?
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:45pm | 394Bitcoin, the digital currency that has been sweeping the internet, appears to have hit a bit of a roadblock in recent days. For those unaware, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer technology and digital currency. Users trade Bitcoin files over a peer-to-peer network for tangible goods and services. The...
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Airport Scanners: When Will Enough Be Enough?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 2:26pm | 492It's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the possible pitfalls and dangers of the new airport scanners being installed across the country. Thus far, the news isn't good: for the last several days, MSNBC has highlighted the disgusting alternative to the full-body scan. What was once a simple,...
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Apple To Host "Back To The Mac Event" Oct 20
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 11:36am | 72According to Gizmodo, Apple is Scheduled to host an event titled "Back To The Mac". the event is to reveal the new OS X. The logo for the event shows a silver with a lion peaking out. I think it is safe to assume its new OS will be called Lion. Rumors also include a new revamped MacBook Air....
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Is Apple Already Taking Action On iPhone Antenna Problem?
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 10:42am | 291According to an article on 9TO5Mac, there are rumors of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) already taking action to fix the much-discussed iPhone antenna problem. A reader on Gizmodo has mentioned, “Well, when I got the new phone it was different. It was different hardware. The black [plastic] bezel isn't as...