In a recent Television commercial for a Taiwanese Action Electronics Co.’s combined PC and multi-language dictionary promotion, Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, dressed in Jobs’ trademark black turtle neck sweater and blue jeans and sporting white angel’s wings and a halo, extols the virtues of company’s new product. “Introducing...
In an ongoing tug-of-war between Microsoft and Google over Google’s new single policy – the software giant today (PT) makes its “Gmail Man” video official in privacy fight against Google. Microsoft has first announced that the Redmond-based computing giant will be placing a series of ads in the US press this week, as it seeks to “remind people of the alternatives.”...
Samsung Galaxy S2 – the one that we know with 1.2GHz, but the South Korean company “might” be working towards two things to bring in addition to the current Galaxy S2 – first, the company is planning to bring the new version with “Plus” category – name as Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, and second bumping the newer version to 1.5GHz. According to the An3DBenchXL’s...
Intel ahead of its Ivy Bridge Chips big launch which is due later this year, the semiconductor chip maker giant has released seven new Sandy Bridge based CPUs – four Celeron and three Core i5 models. All the Celeron SKUs are mobile consists of two standard voltage and two ultra-low voltage models while i5 SKUs are desktop models. AnandTech notes that as for the...
According to Reuters, after review of 2000+ filings since SEC found some companies – including Internet Infrastructure giants – VeriSign Inc. and Credit Card and Debit Card Transaction processor – VeriFone Systems Inc., accounts for significantly “large and new” numbers of hacking incidents. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a lengthy “guidance” document on October 13 outlining how and when publicly traded companies should report hacking incidents and cybersecurity risk. “It’s completely confusing...
Earlier today we reported that Apple has released OS X 10.7.3, an update to its operating system for Mac computers – the third maintenance update to OS X Lion. The update adds support for several new languages and fixes various bugs – users on Apple’s support forums are reporting severe problems after updating to 10.7.3. Every single app crashes results in issues with a bizarre CUI error. This problem typically manifests itself for those who updated using the Software Update tool; users who manually downloaded Apple’s...
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 427.4 million units in 4Q11 compared to 402.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010. The 6.1% year-over-year growth was higher than IDC’s forecast of 4.4% for the quarter, but weaker than the 9.3% growth in 3Q11. The worldwide mobile phone market grew...
With earlier protests against US SOPA and PIPA – in which we see thousands of websites – both small and large protested against the act – even including the biggies – Google, Wikipedia and other technology giant – in the similar way protests are taking place but this time in Europe and it is against Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement (ACTA) – by joining...
Apple today added another high-profile executive to its kitty – this time the company has Robin Burrowes to help lead its marketing efforts for the App Store in Europe. Prior to joining Apple, Burrowers worked at Xbox for seven years and was in charge of Xbox Live – he was one of the executives promoting the Xbox latest dashboard update. MVC notes that Burrowes...
Sony’s soon-to-be President and CEO Kazuo Hirari today during the company’s earnings call took a step forward and discuss his master plans for saving the troubled company. The company posted an operating loss of $1.2 billion and net loss of $2 billion on revenue of $23.37 billion. Sales were 1,822.9 billion yen (USD $23,370 million). Sony TV Business: He stated,...
