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By the end of 2010, about 50 percent of all Facebook monthly active users were gamers. But that fell to about 25 percent in 2011, as Facebook aggressively added new users. The result is that game makers need to work harder to find and retain users. Read more »

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Like clockwork, IHS iSuppli mercilessly tears down new iPhone models and exposes their inner works, looking to devine the secret of their manufacturing and components costs. On Thursday, the firm released its analysis of the latest and greatest, the iPhone 4S. Read more »

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Italy, land of pasta and Roman ruins, has also become a booming solar market. SunPower, which previously bought an Italian project developer SunRay to tackle the country, announced Monday it completed 85 MW of projects in Italy in 2010. Read more »

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Still don’t have a 3-D TV? Don’t feel bad: 3-D TV sets aren’t actually the big consumer electronics trend of the year, according to a new report from iSuppli. That title goes to Internet-enabled TV sets, with worldwide shipments reaching 27.7 million units this year. Read more »

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Global shipments of devices capable of wireless charging will jump nearly 70 times by 2014 from the 3.5 million units expected to sell this year, according to the latest forecast from iSuppli. What will drive this change? Read more »

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About a year after China issued 3G licenses to its three national carriers iSuppli predicts wireless data revenue in the country will rise to $19.3 billion in 2009, up from $16.3 billion in 2008. It’s a big opportunity for device makers, app companies and the carriers. Read more »

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While Apple’s Mac mini has never compared favorably to low-end PCs on price, its value being in size, weight and quiet computing, a report from iSuppli shows the $599 retail cost in a more favorable light. According to the market research firm, an estimate of part […] Read more »

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The iPhones have been unboxed and torn down, so now it’s the Wall Street watchers’ turn to tally up who won and who lost among the companies that provide chips for the envy-inducing device. The big winner is Infineon with four chips, including GPS and 3G […] Read more »

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MySpace launched a social networking experience designed for the iPhone (available free at the App Store) today that will take advantage of the touch interface. As part of the launch, they sent out a fact sheet detailing some mobile stats that I found pretty compelling, notably […] Read more »

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Investment in solar cell production will equal investment in semiconductor manufacturing by 2010, research firm iSuppli said this week. If that’s not a meaningful milestone to convince those that cut their teeth in infotech that the solar boom is upon us, well, then I don’t know […] Read more »

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If you’re a web developer, you may have a love-hate relationship with CSS: it’s great stuff, but it’s hard to go from a blank screen to a fully-worked-out design, especially if writing CSS isn’t your everyday activity. To jumpstart your thinking the next time you get […] Read more »

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The LG Secret launched today with a touch screen powered by Synaptics touch capacitors, a technology whose star has risen in the consumer devices universe in the wake of the iPhone. The iPhone uses a grid layout of capacitive sensors to enable multi-finger gestures, something that […] Read more »

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I routinely enjoy watching YouTube vids on my iPhone when I have a few minutes of downtime. My ten-year old son Tyler often checks to see how many views his Asus Eee PC video has. That li’l bugger has over 10,000 views, which easily trumps some […] Read more »

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If you’re unwilling to pony up the kind of cash it takes to buy an HDTV and maintain a monthly satellite or cable subscription, but you still want to view HD content, you’re in luck — especially if you already spend much of your time in […] Read more »

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I am sitting here in Palo Alto Starbucks with Sling Media co-founder Blake and watching a demo of his service. Watching the Dave Chappelle Show from last week off Blake’s DirecTV Tivo. Despite a poor connection, the image quality and sound is pretty cool. Full Screen […] Read more »