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Das Apple-Tablet schaut aus wie ein größeres iPhone, das mit einer tollen Oberfläche auf einem schönen 10,1-Zoll-Screen glänzt. Das Tablet vereint Funktionen eines Netbooks und eines Kindle-E-Book-Readers. Es hat eine virtuelle Tastatur für die Texteingabe und eine Webcam für Videokonferenzen.

Kai-Fu Lee, EX Präsident Google China

“There will be a period, as data really takes off, where network experience is a potential differentiator.”

Ronan Dunne, head of O2 (UK)

Hulu now has 43 million monthly users, according to comScore. That’s double last year’s number. They watched 924 million streams in the most recently measured 30-day period. That’s triple last year’s count, meaning the average Hulu user watches more clips now than they did in 2008. The site’s TV archive now totals over 14,000 hours, although episodes of most shows are rotated in and out rather than hosted permanently.

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Google Inc.’s Android mobile software may offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010
“A lot of developers have come onto the Android platform” because of efforts by Verizon Wireless, Motorola Inc. and Google to promote the system

Flurry Inc. Chief Executive Officer Simon Khalaf

The 120Gbyte Hard Disk Drive (HDD) version new PlayStation 3, released in September, carries a combined Bill of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing/test cost of $336.27. At a newly reduced retail price of $299, the latest version of the PlayStation 3 comes closer to breaking even than any previous version of the product.

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Nach Zeitungsberichten hat die Bank [Hypo Group Alpe Adria] allein in Kroatien, Serbien und Bosnien mehr als tausend Luxus-Jachten sowie etliche Privat-Jets finanziert.

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Worldwide IT spending will grow by 3.2% in 2010, returning the industry to 2008 spending levels of about $1.5 trillion.
Hardware, software and services spending will each grow in the 2-4% range, with hardware experiencing the most notable gains after a particularly difficult 2009
Telecommunications spending will experience respectable growth of 3%, driven by a rebound in the IP and data segments in mature markets and strong growth in the mobility sector in emerging economies.

IDC