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Apparently Amazon isn’t content with just matching Apple in the music, TV, movie, tablet, online storage, book and smartphone (rumored) department. The world’s largest online retailer is rumored to be preparing a new set top box to go head-to-head with Apple’s Apple TV. This new device which will obviously carry Amazon’s own Prime offering, will most likely offer Netflix and Hulu as well. The new box, which will plug directly into a consumers television, may come powered by Google’s Android OS, but will again...

Even with Apple and Android dominating the smartphone market and despite the fact that other companies like Microsoft and BlackBerry continue to scrounge for a piece of the pie, that hasn’t stopped Internet browser company Mozilla from developing their own smartphone and OS. Mozilla’s approach is drastically different than its competitor’s plans. Mozilla allows developers to basically tap into FireFox OS’s API and create apps that are HTML 5 web apps, instead of natively downloaded apps. All developers need to...

The PC market is crashing and the post-PC era is beginning. PC manufacturers are feeling the squeeze and yet, for some reason, Apple’s momentum seems to keep surging. So just why are Apple’s laptops and computers selling and Windows-based machines aren’t? Well, according to some manufacturers—who preferred to remain anonymous—that spoke with site ZDNet, it’s because of Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform is destroying the PC market. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard manufacturers speaking out...

This morning Twitter made headlines on the Good Morning America show, the social networking company announced “Twitter Music,” a new music discovery service. The service will kick off first on the web (music.twitter.com) will also launch with an iOS app later today. The app promises users the ability to find and search music based on Twitter activity, as well as viewing the profiles of other Twitter users to see what they are listening to. With Twitter Music, users can integrate other streaming music services like Spotify,...

During an IDG News Service in Toyko, Japan, Evernote CEO Phil Libin spoke about the future of Evernote and what it may hold for the company. What’s surprising is that Libin believes that in just a few years, three to five, we may see Evernote produce its own hardware. While they wouldn’t built it themselves, they would be instrumental in its design and it would be Evernote branded. However, that plan is down the road, but it does looks promising. Libin says, “Eventually, in a few years—three, four, five—I think we’ll...

It’s been rumored for some time that Amazon was looking to join the fray of smartphone competitors with their “forked” version of Android, currently used on Kindle Fires. While we haven’t seen anything physical, rumors have come from Asia, that Amazon has been ordering up parts for a new 4.7-inch smartphone. Now it looks like we’ve gotten another morsel of information, this time from TechCrunch, who says a source of theirs has confirmed that Amazon has purchase Evi, the natural language search app, for just...

The smartwatch race has officially begun, the funny thing is, none of the big players have even produced a product yet. We’ve heard numerous reports that Apple is working on a new smartwatch, dubbed the iWatch, that will integrate closely with iOS products like the iPhone and iPad. Then there’s Google and Samsung who are also rumored to be working on their own versions of a smartwatch, presumably based on Android. Now, according to the WSJ (subscription required), Microsoft has joined the fray. Suppliers in Asia have apparently...

Those Boston-themed Hopper commercials must really be working for Dish Network, as the satellite cable company just made a hefty offer of $25.5 billion to purchase Sprint. Obviously this proposal would interrupt, or disrupt, Japanese carrier Softbank’s deal that has already been in place to acquire Sprint. If this offer accepted, Dish will be required to pay a $600 million break-up fee, which apparently CEO Charles Ergen is willing to pay. In the company’s statement about the proposal today, Ergen released the following statement: “The...

I’m not really sure what to say about this startling bit of news, but damn. HTC, who has seen their profits decline for over 5 straight quarters (over a year) have just posted their worst quarter yet. In all, the company only posted profits of just $2.8 million. To put that into perspective, both Apple and Samsung posts profits in the billions. So what went wrong this time? HTC’s sales have continued to decline, but that was all suppose to change once the company’s newest flagship device, The One, made it to the market....

Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at the Facebook Android event to announce Facebook Home, a new UI/App that doesn’t “fork” Android, but instead delivers a unique user experience by incorporating all of Facebook’s services into one, easy to use interface. Zuckerberg says that a smartphone’s home screen is the most important screen, because we, as users, look at it hundreds of times a day. With Facebook Home, you create a family of apps, all there and easy to use. With Home, users are presented with big,...