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Monthly Archives: April 2012

China Planning For A Single National Computer Architecture

Citing various “sources”, ExtremeTech reports (via EETimes) that China is working on to plan single instruction set architecture (ISA) standard – the system that describes how computer hardware deals with programming, commands, and other inputs and outputs. MIPS Technologies says that the government is hoping to either approve a newly created ISA or one built off...

Reports Suggests Hotmail Exploit Spread Like Wild Fire, Now Fixed

Microsoft has deployed a fix for a Hotmail password reset vulnerability that was reportedly being exploited in the wild for days. A report published at...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacked LinkedIn blog

Silicon Republic reports that LinkedIn blog was reportedly being hacked by a group calling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army. Users clicking on LinkedIn’s blog at the bottom of their LinkedIn page will find them redirected to a web page supportive of President Bashar al-Assad and critical of the Syrian National Council. At the time of writing and after clicking...

Google Confirms Its Business Practices Under Investigation In South Korea And Argentina

Bloomberg reports that the search giant’s business practices are under investigation in South Korea as well as in Argentina as per company’s regulatory...

Google Translate Having Over 200 Million Active Users, Processes 1 Million Books Worth Of Text A Day

We all use Google Translate almost every other day and our usage is turning out to be a pretty awesome story for the company who is handling the service....

Panasonic And NHK Announces A 145-inch 8K Plasma Display

Panasonic has announced a joint partnership with NHK to produce a 145-inch plasma display at 8K (7680 x 4320) resolution dubbed as “Super Hi-Vision” in Japan. The display is the world’s first 8K display that doesn’t require a backlight. Both the companies together devised a new drive method they claim maintains stability even at 8K. ...

Samsung And Apple Together Covers 55 Percent Of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q1 2012

We earlier reported that Samsung leaves Nokia behind and becomes world’s biggest phone manufacturer. More to add on this, the latest research from Strategy...

Google Brings Google Play And YouTube Movie Service To Australia

Google has announced that is has launched Movies on Google Play and a brand new Movies page on YouTube for Australia, where you can rent thousands of films...

Apple Launches The New iPad In Nine More Countries, But China Is Still Missing

With Apple’s earlier announcement stating the launch of new iPad in South Korea and 11 other countries, the Cupertino-company announced that it launches...

Acer Ivy Bridge Equipped Aspire V3 Start Shipping In Japan This Sunday

We recently reported that Toshiba to release first Ivy laptops in Japan before US and now Acer on the same tone has revealed that Aspire V3 will be available...