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From DailyTech: Last week, a four-day outage of BlackBerry services left millions of users with email, browsing and instant messaging troubles, but Research In Motion (RIM) is sending an apology in the form of free apps to make up for the disruption. On October 10, BlackBerry... |
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From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. seemed on a roll over the last month in the worldwide patent war it initiated last year against Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. Its blitzkrieg earned crushing victories in Australia and Germany. But much like the German blitzkrieg in World War II was... |
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From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices hopes that Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows 8 operating system will work with multi-core central processing units (CPUs) more efficiently than Windows 7. As a result, the company's FX-series chips with up to eight cores will show... |
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From X-bit Labs: Sony Ericsson may not be the most successful mobile phone vendor these days, but the company will become the first traditional handset company who will shift its product portfolio completely to smartphones starting from 2012. The company particularly pins a lot of... |
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Nations rise and nations fall, and from this, patriotism and war arises. Survival is key in conflicts between nations, which reminds me of a saying from a famous US General George S. Patton. He said, "War is not meant to be you dying for your country -- it is by making the [enemy] die for his." In the world of technology, companies rival against each other as well. Some claim patents on newly invented technology, while others... |
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There was once this saying, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the rest was made in China". About ten years ago, when I was still in elementary school and did not know any better, I was at my friend's house, who was showing off his latest custom built machine. His computer system certainly carried the performance and the price -- spending nearly $3000 in total, it was a lot of money, even by today's... |
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It is hard to believe it is already mid-October already. It seems not too long ago we were all enjoying the sunshine and days off -- at least that is how I feel here at APH Networks Vancouver, with the weather slowly becoming the usual colder, darker and filled with rain (As most Vancouverites has come to expect at this time of the year, anyway). Although if there is a good thing to take out of this weather, it would be the time... |
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From PC World: Microsoft said Friday that it has closed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the Internet telephony provider in Luxembourg, and the company will function as a new business division within Microsoft. Skype CEO Tony Bates will assume the title of president of the... |
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From DailyTech: Back in August, Hewlett-Packard made a few jaw-dropping business moves that no one saw coming. For starters, it killed off its TouchPad tablet and accompanying webOS mobile platform. That very same day, HP confirmed that it was going to sell off its PC unit, Personal... |
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