Apple vs. Samsung – The Battle for China [Infographic]

Apple vs. Samsung - The Battle for China [Infographic]

With the battle getting hotter by day for Samsung and Apple in the scramble for the Chinese market, none of the tech giants are opting to back down. The battle has become hotter with each of the two deploying different techniques. In a move aimed at precipitating Samsung from the Chinese market where it enjoys a clear lead of 18.3%, Apple is rumoured to have entered a deal with China’s lead telecom company, China Mobile. For the telecom company, this has come with a fall in its shares by 2% following its earnings release. With Apple’s fourth quarter coming into an end this October, the results are hotly anticipated.

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How to Gift the Perfect Tablet this Holiday Season

How to Gift the Perfect Tablet this Holiday Season

If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you may have heard the ubiquitous tablet being referred to as the “it gift” of the season. Well folks, for once, mainstream media got something right. Tablets are the Tickle Me Elmo of 2013. I’m not saying any store clerks are going to be trampled in a mad dash for a new iPad, but there aren’t many Christmas trees that will be short a tablet nestled beneath their bountiful branches.

If you’re thinking of buying a tablet for some lucky schmo in your family – or an incredibly fortunate friend – there are a few questions you need to ask yourself before plonking down a few hundred simoleons.

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4 BlackBerry Apps for the Z10 to Get You Organized Fast

Blackberry Z10

People love smart phone devices for professional and personal reasons. Beyond making communication convenient, manufacturer galleries offer an array of applications, helping users do everything from generate and maintain a grocery list to tracking health metrics during a morning jog. BlackBerry, facing fierce competition from iPhone and Android phones, offer users a variety of professional and personal applications. BlackBerry’s new BBM application, with video conferencing abilities, excites scores of faithful fans.

Tmart 8GB Simple MP3 Player Review

Tmart 8GB Simple MP3 Player

I remember way back in the 1990s when MP3 files first started to become popular. Computers back then didn’t have large hard drives, and external drives weren’t as readily available as they are today. Playing music on compact discs was the best way to listen to music. When the MP3 file started to become popular people gravitated to that format because you can easily have good quality music using a fraction of the storage space of a CD.

When Apple released their iPod music player and iTunes, MP3 files really took off, and soon portable music was easier than ever to enjoy. While the iPods are still popular today, some may not want to spend so much for a music player, and may be looking for a much more affordable option. This is where something like the 8GB Black Simple Fashionable Exterior Plump MP3 Player could fill the needs of some.

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Outrun 2 Arcade Machine

Outrun 2 Arcade Machine

Through life we are offered a wealth of different investment opportunities; a new boiler, 3D television, overseas property or even in the form of having a child. Investments can be damaging to the wallet, so one must always choose wisely in order to not be financially broken.

However, when a person sees this awe-inspiring Outrun 2 machine retailing at nearly £68,000 – they simply weigh up their possible investments, turn to their partner and state ‘We don’t really need a kid anyway…do we?’.

The Outrun franchise is perhaps one of the most well-known arcade racing games there ever was. Owning this machine is a statement of both your past as a youngster pumping his last twenty pence coins into the original game and as the present man who can afford such a grandiose machine for his own home.

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Tips On Choosing a Processor For Your Trading Computer

Tips On Choosing a Processor For Your Trading Computer

When it comes to a trading computer, your central processing unit is literally the brains to the whole operation. Even if every other component is the top of the line, absolute fastest and most powerful thing on the market, if you have a slow CPU then your PC is only going to do so much. Now if you are shopping for a stock trading computer, for just about any system that you look at one of the first things that they will tell you is what type of CPU is in it.

But what type of processor should you go with? How do you know it’s the best? And what the heck is a GHz? I thought if might be helpful to demystify all of this for you so that you know what to look for in a CPU when buying a trading computer.

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How Smartphone Features are Driving the Cellphone Market

How Smartphone Features are Driving the Cellphone Market

The global smartphone market is maturing fast, with over one billion smartphones and tablets expected to be shipped in 2014, according to the IDC. Because of this, the differentiating quality for manufacturers to sell to consumers is all about features. Smartphone shoppers are increasingly faced with more options, more features, more power, more screen and more of just about everything. And manufacturers continue to bring us these features on the new cells.

In an average good quality smartphone, the features list is amazing: it’s your ultimate communications tool all in one. In your hand resides a:

  • telephone
  • payment device
  • mini-work station
  • entertainment console
  • communications tool
  • medical / emergency alert
  • video and music player

Mobile phones are simply the center of many of our lives, and we’re paying for that privilege. Samsung’s sales skyrocketed in 2013’s first quarter, to nearly 70 million smartphones sold, according to Forbes.

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