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Sprint’s $99 ZTE Optik pushes the cheap tablet envelope

ZTE and Sprint hope their new $99 Optik tablet’s rock bottom price can lure buyers eyeing the Kindle Fire. Amazon certainly created a hit with its low-cost $199 Kindle Fire, which aggressively undercut the iPad 2’s steep $499 starting price. Now Chinese electronics maker ZTE has stepped up to try to burn the Fire at its own game. With a …

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Peek shuts down quirky e

Hey, remember the Peek, that handheld device from 2008 that supplied e-mail, and only e-mail, for $20 a month? Yeah, didn’t think so. After supporting customers on the original Peek, the marginally more useful Peek Pronto, and the Twitter Peek since then, Peek and its CEO Amol Sarva are shutting things down. This does, unfortunately, affect the “handful” of remaining …

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