According to Reuters, Standard and Poor’s downgrade Sony’s long-term debt rating on Wednesday to BBB+, citing a warning that it may further drop the ratings to further extent unless and until if the Japanese consumer electronics giant shows it can achieve relevant and significant turnaround in profitability. “The major reason for the extended losses is...
According to Forbes report, the Finish mobile maker, Nokia will be going to launch atleast one high-end phone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which is scheduled to be start from February 26. Nokia earlier last month announced its biggest yet thinnest Windows Phone with AT&T-bound Lumia 900, first of its phone that supports high-speed LTE data...
With the confirmation coming from multiple resources, and as was first reported by AllThingsD, LinkedIn has acquired contact management startup Rapportive – which makes a browser plugin that overlay Gmail with contextual information about email contacts. Rapportive raised about $1 million in 2010 from investors including Charles River Ventures, Dave McClure, Paul Buchheit, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk, Shervin Pishevar and Venture Hacks. The startup which is still available only for Gmail, overlays an email correspondent’s...
An Android’s 4.0.4 version just cropped up for the CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus from Verizon, which earlier geared up specifically for Sprint’s Nexus S 4G. Since the version is available only for those users who’ve unlocked their bootloader. According to Android Police “Users on several forums are saying they’ve received prompts to download and install new updates...
The software giant, Microsoft has announced that its employee giving campaign helped to raise $100.5 million last year, donating money to more than 18,000 community organisations in the US and around the world. With this milestone, Microsoft employees have now raised more than $946 million for nonprofits and community organizations since the company’s giving program started in 1983. Each year, every full-time employee at Microsoft in the U.S. receives a $12,000 corporate matching gift that matches volunteer time ($17 per hour) or...
After a long, excited as well as tense wait, Facebook filled S-1 papers to raise $5 billion in its initial public offering of stock. With this much funds the company would be valued approx. $75 billion and with reportedly had more than 425 million mobile MAUs in December 2011. A small piece of news hit the market suggesting that the social networking giant is looking to introduce mobile payments and operator billing for which it has signed an agreement with Bango. The deals terms are not being disclosed yet. Bango provides the technology...
When HP reportedly moving towards ending its TouchPad stock in a $99 fire sale last year, the company mistakenly sent a few tablets running an older version of Android to customers, pointing the fact that it had tested the platforms within its lab, drawing huge attention of the hacker community, webOSNation reported. The company has sent its Android test kernel to...
Nokia has today announced planned changes at its factories in Hungary, Mexico and Finland. The measures, which put an impact on approximately 4000 employees, follow a review of smartphone manufacturing operations that Nokia announced last September and aim to increase the company’s competitiveness in the diverse global mobile device market. “With the planned changes, our factories at Komarom, Reynosa and Salo will continue to play an important role serving our smartphone customers. They give us a unique ability to both provide...
In order to release a version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) that is safer for kids to user, Microsoft has teamed up with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (CEOP) to launch a child-friendly version. The browser has one-click access for Windows users to useful sites such as CEOP.police.uk and thinkuknow.co.uk and makes use of the IE9 and Windows 7...
A new version of Google Voice just rolled out for Android users, bringing an Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) styled icon and user interface, along with another couple of changes. The new version also includes a feature knows as asynchronous SMS, which is many of us curious to know – the feature allows you to queue up messages for later delivery when you happen to be without...
