With the previous rumors that Samsung later confirmed were not trustworthy and not real, South Korea’s SK Telecom is the first one to provide most awaiting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to Samsung Galaxy S II users tomorrow, March 13th from 10 am local time. The company first posted the tweet but it later on removed, but the folks at The Verge had taken...
DigiTimes reported that Nokia will be teaming up with Microsoft to venture it into the tablet PC market with the Windows on ARM 10-inch tablet running on a dual-core Qualcomm Soc at the end of this year. The plan is to bring up the tablet in the quarter fourth of 2012. It is expected that the Finnish mobile maker will outsource the product of the 10-inch tab to Compal Electronics and in the first batch of shipments will results in 20,000 units. We do expect a lot to come from the mobile and software giant together. (Image Source: Windows...
Zorawar Singh, senior vice president and general manager of HP’s cloud services department, told The New York Times that HP is “not just building a cloud for infrastructure.” Hewlett-Packard or just HP is said to be planning of its own cloud service in the market as eyeing over the fact that Amazon’s cut in the cloud market share will give its own version of the cloud technology a good start. The company wants to include “business-focused” features on a platform and even want to file it with more third-party apps and services. HP...
Hacker from Anonymous group name, James Jeffery arrested over the issue of stealing tens of thousands of database records from an abortion provider. The total database count is said to be 10,000 of women register with the Britain’s based biggest abortion provider’s website. Jeffery who self-proclaimed himself as a member of Anonymous proudly touted over what...
Seems like Yahoo loosing another wicket with the stepping down of another senior executive, this time company’s Europe Head Rich Riley – the managing director of Yahoo’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region stepping down. Riley sent an email to his staff stating that he was moving out from the top role he owes at the company. Riley wrote: “I sincerely hope to remain with Yahoo! once the transition is complete and am working with [CEO Scott Thompson] and team to find my next big challenge.” Here’s the entire Riley email...
Over the way Nokia Siemens cutting the jobs in Germany, Siemens finance Chief Joe Kaeser has blasted the way joint venture between Nokia and Siemens – Nokia Siemens Networks was handling the planned job cuts in the country, reports Reuters. NSN is cutting around 20,500 jobs out of total of its overall 74,000 jobs. “Siemens will not accept without a fuss that...
The Finnish mobile maker Nokia has decided to close down its Nokia Money business, a financial service that the company targeted for emerging markets, as it more interesting in focusing on the phone business as well as location-based services. The financial service was opened by the company across India only late last year and even plans to expand to several other...
An unnamed source told Reuters reporter Felix Salmon that CNN is buying Mashable, yes we are talking about Mashable, a blog that covers social media related news for more than $200 million dollars. The announcement is expected to be made on Tuesday, March 12th. According to Salmon, “who isn’t known to throw around this type of rumor unless it came from a solid...
A German government committee putting up a proposal of charging search engines operating in the country to pay for excerpting news sites. The plans also involves setting up a new department that will charge royalties from sites that aggregate news feeds and cover them for 12 months period from the date they published. The proposal comes into mind of German government since a case in Belgium saw Google news forced to stop excerpting articles. Germany is not the only country who is working on bringing such things, before that, Agencies...
In a new vision for the future, the researchers at IBM have developed a prototype optical chip called as “Holey Optochip”, that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), which is equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, including light pulses. The chip is a “parallel optical transceiver containing both a transmitter and a receiver, which...
