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Posted May 2, 2012, 11:00 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Industry News
There are two surefire ways to have your name immortalized in history: succeed in your stride toward greatness or, as so many tech firms did in 2011, faceplant trying.

Fresh in our memory are failed products like the Blackberry Playbook, the PlayStation Network getting hacked, Microsoft's Kin smartphones, AMD's FX relaunch and Duke Nukem Forever. Those and a few others have served as inspiration for us to look further back and revisit some of the biggest flops of the new millennia, starting with what many consider Microsoft's worst OS ever.
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Posted May 1, 2012, 2:28 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
Buy.com offers the Crucial 128GB M4 2.5" Internal SSD, model no. CT128M4SSD2, for $109.99 with free shipping ($0.86/GB). That's $10 under a deal from a week ago and the least expensive 128GB 6Gb/s SSD we've ever seen without rebate hassles. It's also a current price low by $15...
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Posted January 3, 2012, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
Following up from what can only be described as a lousy year for RIM, the Canadian firm has kicked off 2012 with a new round of BlackBerry PlayBook discounts. From now until February 4, or until inventory runs out, all models…
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Posted November 21, 2011, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Research in Motion has announced via Twitter that they will be dropping the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook to $199 for a limited time. This is a significant price cut as the tablet originally launched with a $499 price tag…
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Posted November 10, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
Research in Motion has announced they will continue to support Flash player on their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet despite the fact that Adobe revealed yesterday they were no longer planning to develop future versions of the software.
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Posted September 21, 2011, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Research in Motion (RIM) has nearly 800,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets sitting idle in inventory. RIM had $1.372 billion in inventory at the end of last quarter, up from $618 million at the end of February, according to...
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Posted June 29, 2011, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has been under a lot of pressure lately, following its latest financial results that showed a slowdown in sales and news of delayed products as well as possible layoffs. With their first tablet device getting a…
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Posted April 21, 2011, 4:04 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Hardware
Hulu blocked the BlackBerry PlayBook just one day after the device was officially released. Apparently Hulu did not like the idea of PlayBook users streaming media from the service, according to Crackberry.
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Posted March 24, 2011, 6:16 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software Breaking News
Although the device hasn't launched yet, many prospective customers believed the PlayBook's greatest weakness would be its lackluster app selection, especially when compared to the ecosystems Apple and Google have established. Eradicating those concerns, RIM has just announced that its…
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Posted March 22, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
Research in Motion used a press release this morning to announce that its long-awaited BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is officially available for pre-orders starting today, with units hitting retail chains and wireless carriers in the U.S. and Canada on April 19.…
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Posted March 3, 2011, 8:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
Research in Motion is just over a month away from launching its BlackBerry PlayBook in the U.S., according to a post at Boy Genius Report citing multiple sources. Specifically, the device is rumored to hit store shelves on April 10.…
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Posted February 28, 2011, 8:57 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software With Video
Research in Motion is reportedly looking at ways of getting around one of the major downsides of its BlackBerry platform: the limited app catalog. Rumors that the company is working on some sort of Android app support for its QNX-based…
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