Archive for January, 2012
Could a BBM app save the BlackBerry?
When Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down as joint chief executives at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) last week, it was a reminder that in a world where names like Myspace flash in and out of the limelight, completing decades of traditional company lifecycle in a few years, today’s technology giants can quickly [...]
Read moreApple hit by boycott call
Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads. The company’s public image took a dive after revelations about working conditions in the factories of some of its network of [...]
Read moreFacebook will need friends to justify IPO
Another week, another rumour about a Facebook IPO. Stories that the social network is about to go public have been circulating for over a year now. One day soon, they will be true. The excitement is palpable. Facebook is already the stuff of Hollywood movies. This would be the hottest tech flotation since Google and [...]
Read moreMad Catz MLG Pro Circuit controller review (PS3)
While most of us play games purely for their entertainment value, an elite few get their game on while calling themselves “professionals.” These superstars of simulated battle make the rounds in various tournaments, including, most notably, Major League Gaming Pro Circuit championships. Now those digital athletes, as well as the masses of seasoned “amateurs,” can [...]
Read moreApple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China
Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads. The company’s public image took a dive after revelations about working conditions in the factories of some of its network of [...]
Read moreSSD test: Samsung, Crucial, Plextor and Kingston
With all the noise about how last year’s floods in Thailand have wrecked the hard drive industry, and Intel’s latest efforts on ultrabooks (laptops which are obliged, by its requirements, to have some sort of solid-state disk, aka SSD, storage) it’s time to really think about getting flash storage for your laptop: it will truly [...]
Read moreO2 admits it gives users’ numbers to sites
Mobile operator O2 has admitted that it regularly hands over subscribers’ phone numbers to sites that offer age-restricted material and premium-rate billing, whether the users realise it or not. The admission followed the revelation late on Tuesday that the company had since 10 January inadvertently been providing user phone numbers to any sites that its [...]
Read moreMotorola lawsuit approved by Google
Google specifically gave permission for Motorola Mobility (MMI) to file a new lawsuit against Apple over its iPhone 4S and iCloud products, according to an analysis of the takeover agreement in which the search giant aims to buy the struggling mobile maker. The move marks a heightening of tensions between Google and Apple, where the [...]
Read moreMegaupload: two granted bail in New Zealand
A judge in New Zealand has granted bail to two men arrested last week in the case against file-sharing site Megaupload. Kim Dotcom. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Auckland judge David McNaughton granted bail on Thursday to Megaupload employees Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk. McNaughton previously denied bail to website founder Kim Dotcom. The men [...]
Read moreNokia puts brave face on 31% sales decline
Nokia‘s battle to rejoin the race with Apple and Google’s Android has seen the world’s largest phone maker burn through over €1bn (£830m) in a year, with unit sales of smartphones down 31% in the last quarter. The fall in sales of handsets running Nokia’s Symbian operating system, which the company is phasing out in [...]
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