Apple CEO Steve Jobs has called the new iPhone 4 “the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” what with the gadget breaking all sales records in just days after it went on shelves. The futuristic phone sold 1.7 million units in just two days, and could break 2 million when Sunday’s figures are factored [...]
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Apple’s ‘distaste’ for Flash has been known. The company has resisted repeated user requests to add Adobe Flash to its iconic phone iPhone. The just-released iPhone OS too does not support Flash. Apple’s new Tablet iPad too does not support Flash. This despite reviews terming lack of Flash support one of the weaknesses of these [...]
A recent study by the BBC shows that people in Britain are beginning to doubt climate change. Previously a hot bed of pro-climate change support, the BBC survey now shows that 26 percent of Britons believe that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely manmade”. In November last year 41 percent of [...]
A new company based in Tel Aviv hopes to make the rotating hourglass a thing of the past. To kick things off, the company, Soluto, is offering a free program that cuts boot (start up) time, sometimes in half. The program will analyze the processes for boot-up and recommend ways to trim it down. The [...]
Watson, the latest creation of IBM engineers was designed for a specific purpose. The supercomputer is able to decipher human language and create meaningful responses. For example, it can take a typical Jeopardy! question, presented in a quizical manner, and determine the underlying query, returning the accurate answer. Engineers actually set up a simulated Jeopardy [...]
In just eight weeks, Apple’s infant mobile advertising effort has emerged as a serious contender to challenge Google Inc for the crown in the fast-growing new ad market. The two tech titans are increasingly clashing in areas such as smartphones and PC operating systems. The details Jobs provided about Apple’s mobile ad service at the [...]
The Nissan LEAF all-electric vehicle launch has generated some dramatic buzz. According to Nissan, 6,500 people reserved their LEAF in the first three days it was available. Currently, the number is around 13,000 reservations. Not too shabby considering there is a reservation fee. What is most interesting now is that the LEAF will be built [...]
The world’s biggest drug maker, Pfizer, has announced that it will cut 6000 jobs from its 78 plants by late 2015. Eight of its plants are to be shut completely. The closures will occur in the United States, Ireland and Puerto Rico, with 6 factories in Germany and Britain to have a reduction in activity. [...]
Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. Social networks and other apps for smartphones could be brought to television through the use of Google’s Android operating system. The move is an [...]
In a conference at San Francisco, CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs revealed that the Apple iPhone 4G deals may soon be available. In the keynote speech that he delivered at the conferenced also told that both the iPhone and the iPad softwares and applications would developed.` Apple may cut short the usual time between the [...]