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Awais Khan
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The Pirate Bay banned in Netherlands

The Swedish P2P website ‘The Pirate Bay Internet’ has started the New Year badly. After an order in Finland to prevent an access to its customers by providers, the same stance has been taken by a Dutch judge. Two Dutch internet providers were issued orders to stop access to the torrent website. XS4ALL and Zigggo […]

Apple discontinues sales of iPhone in China

Apple Inc. has decided to stop the sales of their latest smartphone the iPhone 4S in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai. It was revealed that the step has been taken to ensure the safety of customers and employees. The latest device from Apple hit Asia this Friday, which led to mass craze for […]

Facebook introduces ads on Wall Posts

  Facebook has introduced a new formula to give more visibility to advertising. An daily announcement will appear that will be in the shape of an integrated message on the member’s social network wall, away from the right column where there are other sponsored messages. This advertising policy will be phased in gradually in different […]

BBVA employees shift to Google Apps

  Spanish bank BBVA have announced that they its employees will stop using Microsoft Exchange and will switch to Gmail and other collaboration applications. Google’s application suite includes: Calendar, Docs, Groups, Sites, and videos. It was reported that over 35,000 employees will start using the applications initially. By the end of year 2012, the staff […]

Doll of Steve Jobs on sale

  A Hong Kong based company has announced that they will launch a doll Steve Jobs in February. The company ‘In Icons’ has stated that they plan to follow it to pay their tribute to a great visionary. However, they will have to wait for the answer from Apple and Jobs family to take the […]

Facebook attacked by viruses

Facebook has been marred by another security hoax. The worm Ramnit was detected two years ago and has already done with passwords of 45,000 of their members.   The danger of Ramnit is that is can not only figure out thousands of people using the social network which has a remarkable following of 800 million […]

Samsung register record profits

Samsung ended the last quarter with revenues of 3,500 million Euros, special thanks to record sales of their smartphones. Their earnings represent a 22% increase over their performance in the third quarter. The South Korean company sold 35 million phones in the quarter, up 25% over the corresponding period. For the first time, Apple’s worldwide […]

Kodak in trouble

The digital age has not sit well with Kodak as it battles for survival. The New York Stock Exchange warned the company that it can eject the company if they do not close their titles in the next six months, as required by the market. Kodak received the warning after its shares closed down for […]

Android phones for your home

Archos, a French Smartphone manufacturer has announced they will release an Android phone that can be used only at home or in offices as a landline. The new device in fact does not even have a sim card slot. The device is called a Smart Home Phone and has a 3.5 inch touch screen, wifi […]

Amazon sells a million Kindle units in Christmas week

Amazon has managed to sell a million units of Kindle Fire in the week leading to Christmas. The tablet device was the most desired product during the holiday season, which also saw sales of electronic books skyrocket. Despite the good sales figures reported by the U.S. e-Commerce giant, analysts were not convinced: it has been […]

YouTube organizes video duel

In order to increase visibility of the most views videos on YouTube, the video buffering giants will start a voting competition. Polls will be made on the different categories of videos for the competition. Users participating in the competition will win points on voting, an action that will have no rewards but will aid other […]

Apple prepares a longer lasting battery

Users of Apple’s smartphone and tablets have been crying for a long time for the smallish battery time of the devices. The industry leader has finally listened to the concerns of the consumers and announced that they will introduce devices with longer lastinng batteries. According to The Telegraph, Apple has registered a patent which will […]

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