Google’s leader of Chromebook, Rajen Sheth, announced a deal this week with three school districts in the US that will bring 27,000 Chromebooks to students in Iowa, Illnois and South Carolina. Sheth announced about the deal in a speech to the Florida Educational Technology Conference. “A lot of schools are on OSes that are 5 to 10 years old because of the cost...
Apple earlier this month acquired Israel based flash memory maker company Anobit – at that time it is speculated that Apple plans to set its development center in Israel focusing on to gain access to its technology. But today business daily Calcalist is claiming that the company will open a research center there by the end of February. The company reportedly received “several hundred of resumes” for various engineering positions. Specifically, Apple is seeking hardware engineers in chip development area with strong emphasis on...
Hope you still remember the HP webOS – the company yesterday announced that webOS would continue to live on as an open source project. Last year in December, HP announced that webOS would be made available under an open source license. Taking the next step, company released Enyo, a JavaScript app framework, which allow developers to distribute their Enyo-based webOS apps across other platforms. According to HP webOS developer relations blog, company first contribution towards Enyo is by releasing its initial open source version Enyo...
If European Union proposed “data protection law” comes into existence, than firms have to face being fined up to 2% of their global annual turnover if they found breaching the proposed EU data laws. The EU has put forward the suggestion as part of a new directive and regulations. The new rules include users’ “right to be forgotten” and an obligation...
According to a Good Technology report, iOS devices – iPhones and iPads, hold the top three positions in the list of the top 10 enterprise activation by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good Technology for fourth quarter 2011. Good Technology is the leading provider of secure and managed enterprise mobility for iPhone, iPad, Android and other smartphone platforms. “This quarter, we saw Android smartphones gain in percentage of total activations,” said John Herrema, SVP of Corporate Strategy at Good Technology....
Cisco announced today a suite of Linksys HomePlug AV Powerline solutions – an offering that turns your electrical outlets into wired network connections and that too comes with speeds up to 200 Mbps. The HomePlug AV Powerline bring streaming video, gaming, and other data-intensive applications to computers, tablets, consoles, televisions and other Ethernet-enabled...
With iPhone 4S sales halted at Apple’s China retail outlets, the company is now offering the iPhone through its online store, carrier partner China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., and authorized resellers. Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “Apple Inc. underestimated the “staggering” demand for the iPhone 4S when it started sales in China this month.” On January 13, people pelted Apple’s oldest store in China with eggs when the shop in Beijing’s Sanlitun district failed to open of first day of iPhone 4S sales. Cook further added that “We...
The former head of Microsoft, Bill Gates talked about his longtime friend and business rival Steve Jobs in an interview with Yahoo! and ABC News. He had talked about how Jobs’ death affected him – his fix of American schools and his annual letter, which results in setting the priorities for one of the most generous charitable efforts in history. “He and...
Apple announced its Quarter 1 financial results for its fiscal 2012. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and net profit of $13.06 billion, or $12.87 per diluted share. The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter and 15.43 million iPads during the quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter. Apple sold 15.4 million...
Apple announced its Quarter 1 financial results for its fiscal 2012. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and net profit of $13.06 billion, or $12.87 per diluted share. The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, resulting 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.4...
