Category archives for: Sci-Tech

Sony set to launch new tablet

Sony will launch a new tablet in March, Xperia Z model, which will have 10-inch screen and will weighs around half a kilo, as reported by the Japanese company. Sony, which came out last year to conquer the mobile phone market after launching a wide range of smartphones in the market following their separation from Ericsson, […]

Amazon enters musical war with Apple

Amazon has continued market expansion after entering the world of iTunes. The company has opened music store and are offering iOS users with a chance to directly download the iTunes by using safari browser. Their catalog reportedly consists of an install 22 million songs, making it a serious alternative to iTunes and their latest venture could lead to […]

China overtakes US to become the largest smartphone market

China have now becomw the world’s largest producer of smartphones in 2012 to acquire 224 million units, according to sources. At the same time, it launched more than 730,000 applications to Apple (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad). In 2012, the number of Internet users in China grew by 50.9 million people (10%) and reached 564 million, the country […]

Tajikistan government extends Facebook ban

The Tajik authorities have again blocked Facebook social network in the country again, extending a ban that extends for months and has caused a wave of criticism against the Government. The order has been issued by the Minister of Communications, Beg Zujurov, affecting three other web pages, including the Tajik service of Radio Liberty, as […]

Global Internet Population Doubles in just 5 Years

They do not call it the World Wide Web without a reason. According to latest findings, the global internet population has doubled in just five years now and continues to do so at an ever increasing pace.   Even parents and grandparents have become accustomed to using the internet for basically each and every need. […]

Wikipedia launches a traveling guide

Wikipedia premiered a world traveler guide on Tuesday, Wikivoyage.org, which, like the encyclopedia includes content made by the community. Right now, they are offering this service in nine languages and there are over 50,000 articles, 1,099 of them in Spanish. Wikivoyage was founded in September 2006 by authors Germans of Wikitravel unhappy with the trade […]

Apple halves iPhone 5 orders

Sharp has halved the production of screens for the iPhone 5, which indicates that sales of Apple’s latest mobile is not going as well as it was projected prior to the launch, as reported by the Nikkei Japanese page. Nikkei information coincides with another of the Wall Street Journal published in the same direction on […]

PC sales drop during last quarter

Worldwide sales of computers totaled 89.8 million units in the fourth quarter, representing a significant drop of 6.4% and their worst ever run in the past five years, as indicated by the consulting IDC. The sales will reportedly fall down deeper than expected, as earlier forecasts pointed to a fall of 4.4% in this market. […]

Nokia doubles Lumia sales In fourth quarter: Elop

Nokia has surprisingly passed to the fourth quarter higher than it was expected in the forecasts of the Finnish-based company. Among other data, the technology giants have confirmed that it sold 4.4 million Lumia phones in the last quarter. Positive data have uplifted the company’s stock to reach 18 percent in the Helsinki Stock Exchange, […]

Windows 8 reaches 60 million licenses

The new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 8, has sold 60 million licenses to date, including both sales updates as OEMs for new devices. Windows 8 was presented in October 2012 with new features in the interface design, among others. The software company gave a twist over previous versions, betting on an interface that adapts to both […]

Curved Televisions to be Dominating Market Soon as Samsung and LG Begin Showdown

Televisions are always a major factor of impressing anyone that comes over to your house and unlike any other product, the bigger is better for consumers nowadays. With LCDs and LEDs now becoming a thing of the past, we can now notice just how fast technology is really advancing.   The new thing, according to […]

Apple store hits 40 billion downloads: 20 billion in 2012

Apple Inc. has announced that their customers downloaded more than 40,000 million applications (apps) in 2012. The App Store have more than 500 million active accounts and holds a massive record of most downloads in the month of December. The developer community has created more than 775,000 apps for users of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch worldwide, and […]

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