Following the heated debate with the FCC over what information had to be redacted, the search giant has released the FCC report into its Street View service to the Los Angeles Times. But what we can call it as strange or interesting is that Google has only removed personal names from the document. The report pointed out towards an engineer for the privacy breach,...
NVIDIA has announced the GeForce GTX 690. The GTX 690 is dubbed as the world’s fastest consumer graphics card1, with a bold industrial design to match. Powered by dual Kepler architecture-based GeForce GPUs, the GTX 690 is meticulously designed – inside and out – to deliver the most refined, elegant and smooth PC gaming experience possible. The surprise...
According to Financial Times report, the Finnish mobile giant Nokia is working in light to sell its cellphone subsidiary, Vertu. Nokia, which last week had its credit rating cut to “junk” status by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s, will raise about 200 million euros ($265.19 million) from a potential sale. Cited “people familiar with the talks” says Goldman Sachs advising to oversee the sale, but said the outcome was not yet certain. Vertu makes some of the most expensive cellphones in the world by hand, which...
Hope you know about the invite only Google service dubbed as Schemer – what interesting is that it has open its doors to all with an update to its Android application, reports Android Central. So far, the access has been only on invite basis. Invites to the service though are no longer required, and anyone can sign up, including right from within the app itself....
The Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors magic is completely on – first with Toshiba – followed by Acer – with many others on same line – and now HP updating its Pavilion dv6t and dv7t laptops with Ivy Bridge Processors. The laptops include Intel Core i7-3610QM processors running at 2.3GHz. HP’s also offering upgrades to the Core i7-3720QM at 3.6GHz or the...
Canon over the weekend released its first quarter earnings figure, and what are better this time are the figures that have gone better than the last time. The new profit reached 61.54 billion yen ($766 million), up 11 percent although the revenue declined slightly. On the earnings call executive VP and CFO Toshizo Tanaka noted a unit sales increase of 30 percent...
Sharp has announced a 376 billion-yen loss (about $4.7 billion) for fiscal 2011 citing low sales in its primary businesses, reductions in asset valuation, restructuring expenses, and deferred income tax charges. The company is forecasting TV production to decrease by nearly twenty percent, from 12.2 million to 10 million units during which production fell by 17 percent. The company expects to see a 29 percent increase in sales of smaller LCD panels for mobile devices. ...
With bad quarter results, Fitch downgraded rating and Samsung overtaking and becomes world’s biggest phone manufacturer, there is still more to come for the Finnish mobile giant Nokia as yesterday Standard & Poor’s downgraded Nokia’s rating from a low investment-grade prospect of BBB- to a non-investment (“junk”) one of BB+ in its long-term...
FCC fined Google earlier this month with a fine of $25,000 for impeding an investigation into whether or not the data collected during its Street View project violated user privacy. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has agreed to pay the fine in order to put this investigation behind it. The FCC’s complaint was that the project allows users to see street level images when they map a location. The FCC imposed by fine by saying that Google had collected personal information without permission and had then deliberately not...
The bankrupted Kodak has reported its first quarter results with total revenue were $965 million, a decline of 27 percent from Q1 2011. Kodak’s consumer branch lost $164 million in the first quarter of this year, compared to $187 million lost in the same period last year, and the commercial branch lost $64 million, about $3 million less than in Q1 2011. The company has reduced its operating costs by $84 million compared to Q1 of 2011. The company back in February announced that it will stop producing digital cameras and recently...
