This is that time of the year again. No not about Valentine’s day. It is time to look forward to the magical “post-pc” device. Just like before the launch of any Apple, the rumor mill has been working hard predicting what Apple might do. Here is a quick round up of what do you need [...]
Apple’s new iPad 3 Rumor Round Up – What Do You Need to Know about the new iPad 3
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Google Doodle Sports Love for Valentines Day
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Google is celebrating Valentine’s day with a special Google Doodle for Valentine’s day that spreads love in the air. In the special Google Doodle, the second “o” is a clickable animated YouTube video that plays the song “Cold, Cold Heart” by Tony Bennett (Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony/ATV). In the funny video, a skipping [...]
Google Celebrates 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens With a Special Doodle
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Google is celebrating the famous writer Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday with a special Google Doodle. Charles Dickens was born on Feb. 7 1812 in England. His notable writings include Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, and Our Mutual Friend. Learn more [...]
Apple Grabs the Top Three Spots in Top 5 Smartphones in US: NPD Reports
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Not so surprisingly, Apple’s iPhone 4S grabbed the top spot in the best-selling mobile phone handsets in 4th quarter in US in a report by NPD group. The second spot was held by Apple iPhone 4. surprisingly Apple’s iPhone 3GS , the phone Apple launched years ago, took the third spot. In the 4th quarter, the [...]
Samsung Mocks Again at Apple and its Fans in a Super Bowl Ad
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Samsung is on offensive again against Apple and its fans with its new ad for Samsung Note. In the new Samsung ad during Super Bowl, features a similar setting as its previous anti-Apple ad for Samsung Galaxy with Apple fans waiting in the line and come out of the line to choose Samsung’s products. This [...]
Facebook IPO: By The Numbers
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The much awaited Facebook IPO has happened today. On its eighth birthday, Facebook came out of the closet and decided to go public to raise $5 Billion. While filing for IPO Facebook also revealed a number of mindboggling stats on its user base, its revenues, and more. Here is the Facebook IPO by the numbers. [...]
Google To Unite Privacy Policies and Treat You As a Single Person Across Google Products
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Google announced that in an effort to make Google privacy policies simpler and easier to read and understand, Google is uniting more than 60 privacy policies from its products. The biggest upshot is that by combining privacy policies, Google can treat you as a single individual across multiple Google products, when signed in to your [...]
Apple Posts Record Profit With Sales of 37M iPhones, 15.4M iPads, and 5.2M macs
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Apple announced that it posted a record revenue/profit in its 2012 first quarter financial results. In the Apple’s quarter without Steve Jobs, thanks to its awesome line of products and the holiday season, Apple did extremely well. Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac drove Apple’s growth this quarter. Apple sold a whopping 37.04 million iPhones in [...]
Steve Jobs’ Influence on Jonathan Rothberg, the Man Behind the $1000 Genome
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ust a decade ago, sequencing a human genome was a monumental international effort costing more than $2 billion. Just after a decade the cost of sequencing a human genome is about to drop to just $1000. Thanks to one man’s personal motivation has made that sci-fi fantasy to reality. Jonathan Rothesberg’s Life Technologies launched his [...]
Verizon Drops Droid RAZR’s Price by $100
January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Verizon announced that it is dropping the price of Droid RAZR by $100 to just $199 now. Verizon launched the Android 4G Smartphone Droid RAZR in November for $299.99 with a new two year contract. DROID RAZR is the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone powered by dual-core 1.2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM and [...]