It’s been less than a year since the Mac App Store was launched by Apple, back in January. Already, the technology giant is celebrating a relatively significant milestone, being 100 million downloads. In comparison to the iOS app store, the number is completely diminished, but considering that Macs have a much smaller [....]
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Today, Motorola officially unveiled the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets. They’re destined for the UK and Ireland, and will come out with Android Honeycomb 3.2. The Xoom 2 is nothing particularly special when compared to the tonne load of other Android tablets on the market. It features a 1.2GHz dual-core [....]
November 3, 2011 at 10:58 am News
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This morning, HTC announced their earnings for Q3. They have beaten their records from previous quarters by a large margin, and shown incredible growth, with shipments up a huge 93% compared to last quarter. Revenue for the period was NT$136 billion (up 79%, approx: $4.54 billion), leading the net income for the quarter to [....]
October 31, 2011 at 9:59 am News
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After a long period of wait, the heavily leaked Nokia phones running Windows Phone 7 are finally beginning to see the light of day. The company promised to deliver such handsets earlier this year, and since then, numerous sources have leaked photos and videos. But a short time ago, two Nokia devices were [....]
October 26, 2011 at 7:12 am News
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Just over a month ago, I wrote a post here talking about HTC’s $300 million investment into Beats Audio. HTC promised to bring Beats to phones very soon, and they didn’t disappoint. The HTC Sensation XE brings a host of new features over the original HTC Sensation (4G). The processor has been bumped [....]
September 14, 2011 at 1:06 pm News
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We’ve all heard about the delay of the PSP Vita until early 2012, but it looks like Sony still want a new kid on the block for this holiday season – at least, in Europe. In conjunction with the new PSP, they also cut the price of the PS3, interestingly. It’s sporting [....]
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It was a shock to learn earlier on that Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. No one had an hint that it was coming, but the biggest question is why? Why did Google splash some money out their pocket? Google CEO Larry Page released a statement upon the news earlier, which explained [....]
August 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm News
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HTC have recently invested a stake in Beats Audio worth $300 million, which in time will bring the world famous Beats by Dr.Dre Audio to their lineup of tablets and smartphones. “Beats has found a unique way to harness popular culture in a manner that is unlike any other brand today. It’s an [....]
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Another quarter down, another load of cash in Steve Jobs’ pocket. In quarter three of the fiscal year, Apple have made a net profit of $7.31 billion from $28.57 billion revenue. For those wondering, that’s $7.79 per diluted share. Just one year ago, they reported $3.25 billion net profit from $15.7 billion revenue. “We’re [....]
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I love the time of the month when the numbers of browser growth come in. The June figures are in, and Google’s Chrome shows another healthy month. Interestingly Opera took a large knock. It went down to 1.73% from 2.03%, as they continue to go down through the year. Safari [....]
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The recent release of JailbreakMe 3.0 has opened up that infamous question once again – is it ok to jailbreak? We all have our own opinions to the subject, and answers vary. I personally jailbreak my iPhone, but for a number of reasons, and I only use the resources of jailbreaking to get [....]
July 9, 2011 at 6:20 am Mobile
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The Apple Retail Stores across the world have changed, in order to give consumers an easier and more enjoyable experience. The revamp, which has been dubbed Apple Store 2.0, marks Apple’s tenth year in retail. As you can see, the main attraction of the revamp is all about iPads. For each product, there [....]
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All I can say is it’s about time. After much rumor and speculation, the white iPhone 4 is available to purchase from your local Apple Store or Apple reseller tomorrow. “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We appreciate everyone who [....]
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Apple released iOS 4.3.2 today – the minor update brings improved security, fixes an issue that occasionally caused blank or frozen video during a FaceTime call and fixes an issue that stopped some users from connecting to 3G networks on the 3G model of the iPad in iOS 4.3 and iOS 4.3.1. Note [....]