Editor’s Note: Guest Author Ajeet Pratap Maurya is a Software Engineer specializing in .NET technologies and iOS development. After a long, tense wait, finally Facebook filled papers Wednesday i.e. yesterday to raise $5 billion in its initial public offering of stock. With this much funds the company would be valued approx. $75 billion. But the question is still there that what will be the effect of this IPO on the market and the investors who are willing to buy it. As we know this not the first time any tech company coming with its...
BGR has posted the images of Apple’s highly anticipated third-generation tablet: iPad 3 prototype. The data in the photos consist of the output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot. The model numbers are J1 (iPad 3,1) and J2 (iPad 3,2) – two weeks ago DigiTimes reported that the two versions are not two different devices but they are...
According to ARM’s CEO Warren East, “Microsoft may have some solid advantages over Android in the tablet market.” He added, “Tech observers should give Android tablets more time to gain traction in the market. However, he also notes that Microsoft may have a branding edge with Windows 8 tablets.” ARM processors power the numbers of tablets and smartphones...
Nokia, which last week post its Q4 2011 financial figures of an operating loss of €954 million and decision to use Windows phone (for which Microsoft paid the Finnish company $250 million) – will results into the major impact in the company’s earning throughout most of the part of the year – Nokia’s Chairman Jorma Ollila said. Ollila told Finnish National broadcaster YLE, “For a significant part of the year the transition will be seen in the results.” Nokia reported a 73% fall in its Q4 earnings. “Nokia will...
Sony has just posted its quarter three results of its 2011 fiscal year and as expected, the news is not great. Sony 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), a decrease of 17.4% compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year (YOY) primarily due to the impact of the floods in Thailand which began in October 2011, deterioration in market conditions in developed countries, and unfavorable foreign exchange rates. The...
The Munich Regional Court rejected the iPhone maker, Apple bid to get an initial ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone. The decision comes a day after a Dusseldorf Court appeals upheld Apple’s request to ban sales of Galaxy Tab 101.N – the predecessor model. “Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection,” Presiding Judge Andreas Mueller...
The first possibility pointed by [Google translated] Taiwanese site Apple.pro that the next iPod Nano would have camera surfaced last April – which was then follower up in May when a more finished version showed up in photos. Now the site is back with even more possible evidence of what looks to be a more completed model. An Apple late 2009 patent application also...
A French commercial court on Tuesday slapped a fine of 500,000 euros (approximately $660,000) on Google France. The complaint was lodged by Bottin Cartographes against search engine giant French division – Google France and against the parent company Google Inc. on account of providing free web mapping services to some businesses. “This is the end of a two-year...
Yesterday, Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Communications at Microsoft, has 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.” The alternatives he is pointed in the post against the Google’s “one big policy” – merging Google’s all 60 different policies into one, resulting into a single big product. Google has responded back in its blog post “Busting myths about our approach to privacy.” The...
Internet Explorer snagged market share from both Chrome and Firefox in January. The web browsers January market share numbers are out, and Internet Explorer gained over a point seemingly at the expense of its rivals – Chrome, Firefox and Safari. According to Market Share, for the month of January, Internet Explorer (all versions) controlled some 52.96% of the global...
