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Nintendo Lets Gamers Review Everything They've Played In 2022 And For How Long — Just Like Spotify Wrapped
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 8:10am | 351Read More...Taking a leaf out of Spotify's Playbook, Nintendo Co. (OTC: NTDOY) Switch now allows users to access their "Nintendo Year in Review 2022." What Happened: Indulging in a popular end-of-year ritual — similar to Spotify Wrapped — Nintendo Switch has...
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Why BlackBerry's Thorsten Heins is Dead Wrong About Tablets
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 2:29pm | 646Read More...BlackBerry's (NASDAQ: BBRY) CEO Thorsten Heins is making headlines today after sharing his views on the future of tablets. "In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," Heins told Bloomberg. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets...
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Crafty iThieves Steal $1.5M Worth of iPad Minis
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 1:47pm | 542Read More...There will be 3,600 fewer iPad Minis on store shelves now that thieves have gotten away with two pallets filled with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices. According to the New York Post, the heist occurred at JFK after two men used one of the airport's own forklifts to load the pallets into a truck. The...
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Judge Overturns Mformation Verdict, Saves Research In Motion $147 Million
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 8:15am | 398Read More...Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is celebrating Thursday after announcing that the judge presiding over its patent infringement trial with Mformation Technologies has overturned the jury's verdict, saving RIM more than $100 million. In July, the BlackBerry maker was ordered to pay $147.2 million...
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Research In Motion to Launch 4G PlayBook in Canada on August 9
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 1:02pm | 465Read More...Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) may not have any major smartphone upgrades planned for 2012, but the firm is determined to continually update its first and only tablet: the PlayBook. The last update came in the form of a software upgrade released in February 2012. Thursday, Research In Motion...
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RIM's PlayBook Update Takes a Stab at Erasing Underdog Title
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:30pm | 402Read More...In an attempt to claw its way back to the top, Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has released an incredibly necessary update for its PlayBook tablet. In what some might say is a gesture of “too little too late” proportions, the minds behind Blackberry have launched PlayBook OS 2.0 software...
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Is Kindle Fire a PlayBook in Disguise?
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:35pm | 779Read More...When hundreds of thousands of consumers purchased a Kindle Fire last Christmas, they had no idea what they were getting. It turns out that the $200 tablet they acquired just happens to be a slightly modified version of a $500 tablet that no one wanted: the ill-fated PlayBook from Research in...
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How Soon Will Research in Motion Die?
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 10:10am | 1008Read More...The impossibly imperiled smartphone manufacturer has taken another hit this morning as the company reduces its Q3 revenue forecast. Despite shipping approximately 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones in the third quarter, Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) still fell below expectations. Morgan...
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Five Ghoulish Tech Stocks for Halloween
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 1:15pm | 1978Read More...These stocks are downright scary. It's that time of the year again. A time when grown men and women dress up as their favorite film, TV and video game characters, all in the name of partying on a holiday that was once reserved for candy-seeking children. Of course, I've never felt that it was...
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Research in Motion Exec Compares PlayBook to a Fisher Price Toy
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 5:06pm | 537Read More...Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is getting a painful dose of reality today as the Boy Genius Report reveals an open letter it obtained from a senior exec at the company. The letter, which was sent to Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis (the two primary leaders at the firm), reveals many of RIM's...
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Should Apple Brace Itself for a Nook Invasion?
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 2:05pm | 760Read More...You wouldn't think that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), one of the most embattled retailers in the nation, could ever pose a threat to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). But after gaining nearly 30%, B&N announced that its new app store had sold and/or given away one million apps. Compared to Apple's App...
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Gene Munster: iPad 2 Is "Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary"
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 11:38am | 261Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) isn't exactly soaring on the news of the iPad 2, and many investors want to know why. “In covering these events for the past eight years, this is typical,” Gene Munster, a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, told Bloomberg this morning. Munster said that there is...
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HTC Aims To Beat iPad, Undercut PlayBook (AAPL, RIMM)
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:40pm | 130Read More...BGR reports (via DigiTimes) that HTC is prepping a new Android 2.3-powered tablet (codenamed Flyer) for release in March. If this info proves to be true, HTC will beat Research in Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) PlayBook – the most anticipated tablet since Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad – to market. The...
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CES Exclusive: Interview with Shibani Joshi from Fox Business
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 2:58pm | 1834Read More...Welcome to Zing Talk, where Benzinga brings you the biggest names and brightest minds from Silicon Valley to New York City. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today our guest is Shibani Joshi from the Fox Business Network, who is covering this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Shibani Joshi...
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Four Key Trends From CES 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 12:35pm | 701Read More...As this year's Consumer Electronics Show comes to an end, consumers and critics alike are weighing in on the event, noting the various trends and showstoppers, as well as the products that could land under our Christmas trees in 11 months. Benzinga spoke to Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi this...
