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iPhone sales numbers for Q1
Apple is responsible for 85% of world’s smartphones sales. The numbers are high and climbing. Fortune magazine has assembled some two dozen Wall Street analysts’s forecasts on 1st quarter of 2012 iPhone sales. Their estimates ranged between 26 mil and 33 million units sold between January 1st and March 31st. The best conservative estimate then [...]
Mainstream Vista Support Stops
Mainstream support has ended for Windows Vista. Vista was released on Jan 30, 2007. Microsoft’s policy is to support OS for a minimum of five years or for at least two years after the next OS is released. Windows 7, which aimed to address the vast catalog of failings of the Vista OS fiasco, was [...]
Amazon App Store In-app Purchases
A new development has elevated Amazon’s AppStore in functionality to help compete with Google Play and the Apple App Store. Until now, developers peddling their apps through Amazon were unable to offer in-app purchases, but Amazon has now announced an in-app purchasing API, so users can now be purchase content with a single click, whether [...]
RIM Backtracks On Ending Sideloading
There was disappointment amongst Blackberry Playbook owners after a RIM executive declared the company intended to discontinue Android app side-loading on the firesale tablet. Now the same exec, Alec Saunders, has declared that side-loading will be supported indefinitely on Playbook OS and BB10, with RIM modifying the feature to keep pirates at bay. Side-loading is [...]
Playbook Android Sideloading Ending?
We recently reported financial trouble at RIM , and it seemed renewed interest in the cut-priced Blackberry Playbook might be the company’s saviour. It’s one of the best dual-core tablets out there, great display, good performance, but in the beginning was hampered by a poorly-equipped OS and its premium price point. Now that Playbook OS [...]
Hard Drive Industry Recovering
The combination of Japanese earthquake and Thai floods led to a difficult year for hard drive manufacturers, and knock-on effects in the PC industry led to a 4.5% year-on-year fall in shipments. Now at long last the industry is reported to be back on track. IDC predicts the clean-up of manufacturing facilities willbe complete by [...]
Samsung and Apple took 95% of smartphone profits in Q4 2011
Canaccord Genuity releases market share of smartphones for last quarter of 2011. In Q4 out of all smartphones sold, Apple has sold 80% of it, Samsung sold 15%. Together these two giants sold 95% of the smartphone sector. iPhone 4S continues to be the most popular smartphone around. In United States iPhone oversells all other [...]
Google Updates Search
Google has been updating its search algorithms and UI over the last month, and has now made a blog post detailing the changes. They are not so cataclysmically important unless you’re involved in SEO or use Google Search particularly heavily, but a few are outlined below. ‘+’ is henceforth to be handled as a normal [...]
MacBook paired with Siri
Next line of MacBook Pro will be thinned down a bit. Great news await all that have MacBook Pro this summer. Apple has secured another patent describing capability of iPhone to connect to your Mac via Voice command. Siri has been incredibly popular among iPhone users and net has been buzzing with suggestions that Siri [...]
Mozilla Browser Gaming
Mozilla has just released a new game, BrowserQuest, which runs purely in the browser environment, making use of the various HTML5 elements with such HTML5 elements as ‘audio’ and ‘video’ in what Mozilla claims is a ‘tribute to classic video games with a multiplayer twist.’ Hopefully the tribute-aspect is to blame for the slightly dated [...]
