Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III coverage wrap-up
The first Samsung Unpacked event for this year is now over and, just as expected, it was all about the new Samsung Android flagship. After months of rumors, the I9300 Galaxy S III finally went official and it looks like it has what it takes to pick up, where the extremely successful Galaxy S II left off. Over the past few hours we were quite busy covering the Galaxy S III in as much detail as possible and here we ...
Moon at perigee this weekend
No need to duck, panic, batten down for mega-tides as Luna approaches to 356,953 km If you stumble out of the pub this weekend and the moon appears unusually large, there is no need to swear off the strong stuff. Instead, contemplate the wonder that is Lunar perigee, the moment at which the moon approaches closer to Earth than on any other day of the year. This year’s perigee takes place on May 5th and 6th, when our sole satellite ...
Intel beats Q1 expectations, jacks up revenue forecast
Intel crept in over expectations with its Q1 results today, though its silicon business dipped 2 per cent on the previous year’s slightly longer quarter. The chip giant characterized its Q1 performance as a “solid start” to the year, and was bullish enough to jack up its expectations for the second quarter. Revenues were $12.91bn in the quarter ending March 31, a shade over last year’s $12.857bn.
Yahoo! enters! last! chance! saloon!
The lazy reaction to Yahoo!‘s latest attempt at revival is cynicism, but a closer examination suggests it is playing a blended hand of cards as well as it can. As we all know Yahoo! lost the search wars to Google, as did a bunch of other vendors that appeared well placed at the time. One of them, Alta Vista, ended up being acquired by Yahoo, which has never entirely given up on its original core business. But that was a ...
Sony to cut 10,000 jobs in quest for profitability
Sony is planning a major restructuring, with around 10,000 jobs – about 6 per cent of the company’s global workforce – expected to get the chop after a press conference this Thursday. Japanese newspaper Nikkei has reported (from behind a paywall) that the new chief executive Kazuo Hirai, who took the helm of the loss-making electronics giant in on April 1, plans to cut jobs in an effort to bring the company back to profitability. Nikkei also reports that senior ...
Five charged after fanboi sells kidney for iPad and iPhone
Five people have been charged in southern China with illegal use of a kidney after a teenage fanboi in the country sold one of his organs to purchase a shiny new iPhone and iPad. Xinhua news bureau reported that the five include Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from a provincial hospital in Yunnan province, Su Kaizong, who works in a hospital urology department and ringleader He Wei, who organised the operation to pay off his gambling debts. The 17-year-old from Anhui ...
RIM to give out BlackBerry OS 10 dev prototypes in early May
RIM is preparing a new OS – called BlackBerry 10 – to replace the two current OSes that it uses (BB OS 7 on phones and Tablet OS on the PlayBook). The BB OS 10 will launch late this year, but app developers can look forward to playing with it sooner – 2000 developer prototypes running a version of the OS will be given to the attendees of the BlackBerry Jam conference taking place in early May. RIMs VP of ...
An iPad in every pot, states Anna Bligh
Queensland’s apparently-outgoing premier Anna Bligh has launched an IT auction to replace the law-and-order auctions more familiar to voters in Australian say elections. Ms Bligh, whose Labor government is trailing the Liberal-National Party in preelection polling, promised yesterday that if her government is re-elected, it will run a trial program equipping Year 7 students with the Apple fondleslabs. The $AU5.7 million program will deliver 5,000 iPads to students in twenty schools that are part of the government’s “Flying Start” program.
ITC rules in Apple’s favor in HTC mobile patent dispute
By Nancy Gohring | IDG News Service The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Friday issued a final determination that Apple doesn’t infringe certain HTC patents related to smartphones. HTC makes devices based on Google’s Android mobile operating system that compete with Apple’s iPhone. The ruling was made on a complaint that HTC filed with the ITC following a complaint lodged by Apple last year. HTC accused Apple of selling products that violate its patents relating to power-management methods and ...
Last year’s iOS sales surpassed all Macs ever sold
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984. “The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million cumulative units at the end of last year,” Horace Dediu writes on his Asymco blog. “The iOS platform overtook the OS X platform in under four years and more iOS devices were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the ...
