Research in Motion on Sunday announced that Thorsten Heins as company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mike Lazaridis, former Co-Chair and Co-CEO, has become Vice Chair of RIM’s Board and Chair of the Board’s new Innovation Committee. The Globe has reported that the company finally buckled to a year of pressure to replace Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the two men who were the face of the company for decades, and who ran the company in a co-CEO system that investors had long ago declared untenable. On the transition...
Olympus on February 8th is on the way to announce a new line of its Micro Four Thirds cameras with the name “OM-D”. 43Rumors posted a teaser shot of a new camera. The camera will be the first of its “OM series” camera that is coming after 40 years. 43Rumors further mentioned the specifications that they are pretty sure with some minor changes expected from...
With the Mobile World Congress on the chart next month, we’re strongly considering that Sony doing announce its some new phones in Barcelona. Xperia Blog has posted a photo of what it thinks is the ST25i “Kumquat”. Sony Ericsson looks to be sticking to the design trends set with the Xperia S, as evidenced in the leaked image of the handset currently names as...
PayPal, an American-based global e-commerce business, announced that the company is partnering with the home depot Ebay Inc., results into bring PayPal payments and state-of-the-art mobile purchasing to a sample of their retail stores. As a part of their initial roll-out, purchasers in select Home depot stores can pay with PayPal through cashiers or at self-checkout...
Sony announced that it is adding the Russia’s GLONASS positioning system, in its upcoming Xperia S and Xperia Ion Android handsets. GLONASS is a Russian radio-based satellite navigation system that both components and provides as an alternative option for GPS. GLONASS is fully supported in Xperia S and Xperia Ion and any Xperia device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon...
Google seems to have some major changes in its account creation process. Earlier, for creating a new account with Google – it only requires an email address. But from now onwards you are required to create both a Gmail account as well as having a presence on Google+. If you try to create a new Google account from Google’s homepage, you’ll surely notice that...
Google and its six products – Picnik, Sky Map, Urchin, Needlebase, Google Message Continuity, and the Social Graph API are all headed for the deadpool, open source or absorption into more central divisions. The company made the announcement through the Google official blog. Needlebase: Google acquired the product from ITA Software, a data management platform. The company is retiring the platform and is being evaluated for integration into Google’s other data-related initiatives. Google Sky Map: The app was created to show off the...
On Friday, when U.S. accuses a major internet content hosting website, MegaUpload.com of copyright infringement charges, till than no one knows what the future holds for the website. But when the site executives arrive in court to answer the charges, they’ll be backed by a well known Washington based attorney Robert Bennett. Robert Bennett mentioned on Friday that...
The anti-SOPA protest takes it next moves this morning (EST) with Senator Harry Reid said, “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA).” The voting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24. Yesterday, we saw an increase in number of senators who are in opposition of the bills. The number was raised to 122 against the 63...
Have you ever wondered that an app can assess the compatibility of those who are in a relationship by comparing their playlist? Sounds surprisingly at first instance – but is true Japanese TYO Inc. had launched its ChuChu Tune app. The app is for those who have already paired up. Users begin by downloading the free app, which is available in both English and...
