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No white iPhone 4? Best Buy has a white EVO 4G

If a snapped circular is to be believed, Best Buy Mobile will soon be carrying a white version of Sprint's popular EVO starting July 11th.

PhoneArena.com took a picture of a purported Best Buy circular (right, full sized, below) which seems to indicate that Sprint's EVO 4G will be coming in White.  The white EVO is expected to be a Best Buy Mobile exclusive until August, and orders are supposed to MORE

Sprint EVO 4G officially goes on sale

The nation's first 4G phone is now available via the Sprint store and its affiliates.

People probably didn't camp out overnight for them (they could have bought them from Googlers I/O attendees on eBay/Craigslist if they were desperate), but the Sprint EVO 4G from HTC is a pretty hot phone, if you can get over the battery issues.

It is now offically on sale all over, obviously including the Sprint Store with MORE

Google wants to invade your living room with Google TV

With Google TV, the company wants to marry the web with the living room television experience

Earlier today, Google gave an impressive demonstration of their vision for the future of the television experience that was marred only by Bluetooth connectivity issues.

The company plans to combine its video technology and TV partnerships to bring the web into the living room.  From YouTube "lean back" (ie. living room view-friendly) sites like NBA.com to MORE

Apple takes top spot among cell phone buyers

Consumer Reports ranks its stores above the rest despite high prices and limited selection

You might think that the best place to buy a cell phone is from the store that has the biggest selection or the lowest price or a connection to the carrier you'll be using.

But you would be wrong, according to the June issue of Consumer Reports. Based on a survey of 11,000 online subscribers, the magazine gave MORE

Best Buy's iPad supply: 15 per store

Cupertino is keeping the consumer electronics giant on a very short leash

In a press release issued Monday, Apple (AAPL) lists "most Best Buy stores" among the places -- along with Apple.com, Apple retail stores and selected authorized resellers and campus stores -- where customers can buy iPads on April 3.

But would-be buyers who show up at the 675 Best Buy (BBY) stores privileged to carry the tablet computer this MORE

The office is dead. Long live the office.

Forget "work from home" – today's mobile employee works from anywhere (and everywhere!)

By Bruce Chatterley, CEO, Speakeasy

It isn't exactly a news flash that the workforce of today spends increasingly more time away from the traditional office building.  But these employees aren't just telecommuting.

No longer tethered to their desks, employees now move freely between work, home and anywhere else. And they expect that they can do their work on the MORE

Where social media's "It Boy" cut his teeth

Before getting into gaming, Farmville's father was a player in the glam world of online tech support.

Before Zynga, there was SupportSoft.

Prior to launching the hot social gaming outfit that spawned Farmville and Café World, Mark Pincus founded a trio of companies: Social networking company Tribe.net, downloading service FreeLoader, and SupportSoft, a company that began providing support software for enterprise companies in 2001.

Today, SupportSoft is called Support.com (SPRT) and its current CEO is MORE

Apple's growing slice of the music business - in pie charts

The NPD Group on Tuesday issued what at first appears to be a pair of contradictory facts:

Apple (AAPL) now controls the largest share of the music business, its iTunes Store accounting for 25% of unit sales in the first half of 2009, up from 14% in 2007.
Compact discs are still the most popular format for paid music, accounting for 65% of unit sales.

How can this be? The trick is that MORE

iPod holiday sales: Hot or cold?

We're getting an unusually sharp divergence of expert opinion on how well the iPod is likely to do this holiday season.

The conventional wisdom -- reflected in Arik Hesseldahl's "Apple's iPod Problem" in Businessweek -- is that everybody who wants an iPod already has one, and doesn't see much reason to upgrade, especially with the economy in the dumps. "As a result," he wrote, "some analysts believe this will be the MORE

Apple sale! All Macs must go! -- Update

[UPDATE: Apple has published its Black Friday sale prices, and while the savings on MacBooks and iPods are in line with last year's, there are steep discounts -- 50% and more -- on third party products. The resellers, meanwhile, are offering unually steep price cuts. See MacRumors, AppleInsider and Gizmodo for some of the best bargains. To see what shoppers ended up buying over the first weekend of holiday sales, MORE