Another industry seems to be on the verge of another “identity” crisis, reports Reuters. The global $64 billion video games industry is the next in the line to go through the crisis. The global interactive entertainment industry has been trying to cope with the massive online and mobile gaming for years, but with the current situation companies in that domains...
A clerical error carried out by the police resulted in around 8,000 websites, including Google and Facebook blocked, for several hours on the grounds of “containing” child pornography. The blackout also affected Tele Greenland users. Customers of the Siminn ISP who tried to access the affected pages were greeted with the following message: “The National High Tech Crime Center of the Danish National Police [NITEC], who assist in investigations into crime on the internet, has informed Siminn Denmark A/S, that the internet page...
Earlier today, I was searching for some information regarding the Apple’s valuation and found an interesting piece of thing, an article that says, “Apple is worth more than Poland? No, it isn’t” on CNET. Exploring further, another headline that hits this week, “Apple is now worth more than Poland,” it read. So what the major thing that I am thinking here do is it really worth it to use the “worth” it and thinking that Apple is really more worth than what the whole of Poland is? The company, co-founded by Steve...
China which is known as most populous nation in the world has now seen named as the first country in the world to reach one billion mobile phone subscribers base mark. The number of mobile phone subscribers in China by late February had reached 997 million, and was expected to top one billion by month’s end, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry and...
Russian oligarch Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov, the Muscovite who controls the Metalloinvest metals and mining company, is one of the richest man in the world and the richest in his home country, according to Bloomberg. Usmanov owes majority stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST), along with the sizeable equity stakes in internet companies like Facebook, Groupon,...
The iPad 3 launch is just round the corner and we are sure that company will keep the stone high and will not share any information before March 7, the event date, but what if the images showing how the rumoured Retina display resolution would improve the visuals; this is what an independent developer posted the images of. Kevin Ng, Former EA-employee Food Run platform’s...
Foursquare, a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones, co-founder Naveen Selvadurai will be leaving the company this month. Selvadurai has worked in several roles at Foursquare in his time at the company, including product management, engineering, and evangelizing. There is no information which states that what his next move...
Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy Player 70 Plus which appears to be a powered-up version of its 5-inch device from last year. The phone specs include a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera and a 2,500mAh battery. The media player will arrive in both 16GB and 32GB capacities, priced up at 399,000 won ($356) and 469,000 won ($418) respectively. (Image Source:...
Yahoo losing another charm over to the search giant Google – Yahoo Labs Head and the recent Head of Strategy Prabhakar Raghavan is leaving the company for Google. Yahoo confirmed the move. The departure just comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division. Raghavan worked with Yahoo for seven years. He is also a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University. According to his bio, Raghavan has “co-authored two textbooks, on randomized algorithms and on information retrieval.” The Berkeley PhD had been CTO at Verity...
According to a new study commissioned by software giant Microsoft, the current spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015. IDC’s research predicts revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per year by 2015, which, combined with cloud efficiencies, will drive significant organizational...
