At the recent HTC’s event, the mobile company vice president of product strategy Bjorn Kilburn noted that the company had conducted research last year to find out whether customers preferred thin smartphones to those which compromised thickness for better battery life. The answer which amazed is that the customers usually preferred thinness – the point at which...
The recent job postings [1][2] on Microsoft’s careers site indicate that the company is working on bringing Skype to the Xbox platform. The postings are for various engineering and management positions in London, and the successful applicants would be working as part of the apparently newly-formed Skype Xbox Engineering Team. In a job posting on Microsoft Careers the company details the formation of its new London-based Skype Xbox Engineering Team: “Skype is seeking a motivated Software Engineer with an unrelenting drive for...
Microsoft has announced quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2012, a 6% increase from the prior year period. Operating income was $6.37 billion, up 12% from the prior year period. Net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.11 billion and $0.60 per share, compared with $5.23 billion and $0.61 per share, respectively, in the prior year period. Prior year net income and diluted earnings per share included a $461 million or $0.05 per share tax benefit primarily related to a tax settlement...
AMD has announced revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of $1.59 billion, net loss of $590 million, or $0.80 per share, and operating loss of $580 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $92 million, or $0.12 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $138 million. Last quarter, the company reported $1.69 billion in revenue, and it had $1.61 billion...
Bill shock this is what most of us usually get when a long mobile bill comes to our head – to help undergo this – the US Federal Communication Commission has launched a new tool for consumers that provides information about bill shock. The free alerts will cover usage for voice, data, SMS, and international roaming, and will come in two forms — one when you’re...
Last week Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was spotted at video game designer Valve’s headquarter last week and think the meet would be for Apple-Valve partnership on some amazing product than you would be wrong as according to Valve head honcho Gabe Newell, the rumor reported by Apple Insider isn’t correct. “No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were,” he told the Seven Day Cooldown podcast. He added that he’d never met Tim Cook at all, inside or outside his Bellvue, Washington...
Mozilla has announced that its HTML5-based mobile phone platform “Boot to Gecko” will be making its commercial debut in Brazil by early 2013. ZTop reports that Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs made the announcement in Sao Paulo, sharing the elm on HTML5 and open web standards should prove to be a practical way to get smartphone features on lower-end devices. The company...
The ongoing Oracle and Google courtroom battle taking the pitch one after another as both the company trying their level best to defend themselves. The latest to add is Google’s Java mastermind Joshua Bloch speaks up and says that some of the code he contributed to Android was indeed “copied”. Oracle’s attorneys focused particularly on nine specific lines...
The ACCC earlier made an application to the Federal Court in Melbourne for orders against Apple for alleged contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). The ACCC alleges that Apple’s recent promotion of the new “iPad with WiFi + 4G” is misleading. Over on which the Cupertino-based iPad maker offered its new iPad buyers in Australia the opportunity to get a full refund. The main question that come the sigh is how and why Apple tries to redefine the meaning of 4G. According to The Australian, Apple argues that: The descriptor...
Interesting but an important note to believe, before Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, an Android version of the photo-sharing app was launch. 9to5Mac reports that one of its readers reached out to Apple’s senior vice president of marketing after noticing that his Instagram account, under the name @schiller, had vanished. Apple’s Phil Schiller...
