According to Sydney Morning Herald, Apple has moved again to protect the use of its “i” brand, this time in New Zealand where it is fighting a trademark application for a smartphone case with the name ‘driPhone’. Hayden Crowther, of Hamilton, New Zealand created the driPhone as a sturdy, waterproof case for smartphones of all varieties but Apple is opposing...
Stephen Toulouse – the director of Microsoft’s Xbox Live policy and enforcement, will step down from his current position and head out into the unknown. Announcing the news on his personal site, he stated, “Over the past year I’ve been doing quite of bit of thinking. Nothing specific, nothing groundbreaking. Just plain old thinking. I turn 40 this year. Despite...
BTJunkie, a popular BitTorrent search engine, has voluntarily shut down after seven years in existence – the recent seizures of Megaupload and several hundred other broadcasting websites likely had a significant impact over the move to voluntarily shut down. It’s yet to be seen if BTJunkie will go completely inactive or whether they will follow in the footsteps...
According to Reuters, Taiwan smartphone maker HTC likely to report a much lower –than-expected revenue in its first quarter. The company will sees a drop in revenue of around 33%-38% to T$65 billion-T$70 billion, from $T$104.16 billion in the previous year. Adding further, the smartphone maker is expecting its first-quarter gross profit margin to be 25% while its...
According to C News, MegaFon customers that bought a 3G modem were asked to download as much as data they physically could between the three months period – November 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012 – rewarding the person a price of 150,000 ruble (around $5,000) holiday overseas courtesy of Russian travel agency Neva – resulting the winner of the contest managed...
Selling fake stocks and doing forgery and that too of none other than social networking giant Facebook stocks – a Wisconsin, US based woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook’s upcoming IPO – with the selling of fake stocks. Facebook last week only announced its $5 billion IPO – which according to analyst will cap...
According to San Francisco Chronicle, several hundred women around the world are upset with Facebook for removing their breast-feeding pictures from the social networking site – to voice against this the women will be protesting Monday by staging “nurse-ins” – in which they will be breadt feed their children’s outside the social media giant’s office worldwide...
Micron Technology announced the appointment of D. Mark Durcan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. The appointments come after the company reported that Steven R. Appleton, longtime Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away in a February 3 airplane accident in Boise. Durcan will also serve as a Director on Micron’s Board of Directors. “We are...
Wikipedia is a free, collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopaedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation – wait yes it is non-profit – but half of its users do not know it is. The site consists of 20 million articles (over 3.8 million in English alone) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. According to Mani Pande, Head...
According to Venturebeat, the search engine giant, Google has hired the iPhone maker senior director – Simon Prakash for the project which is currently termed as “top secret project”. Prakash worked at Apple for eight plus years – as per his LinkedIn page, his most recent post was senior director of product integrity at Apple. Prakash which started with Apple...
