As demonstrated in presentation on its official launch and iPhone 5’s launch, it gets the users everything from latest movies playing in theatres, favourite shows on TV, latest sports scores to booking reservations in restaurants. Another new feature iOS 6 houses is the Passbook, Apple’s attempt against NFC-based (near-field communications) Google Wallet. The only difference […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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Gone are the days when you could only look for a gasoline engine in a vehicle. The gas prices would trip you off but you would have no other choice but to settle for it. However, the new wave of electric and hybrid cars is getting people the much craved choice on fuel economy. Electric […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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2012 Lexus CT 200h Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand, has been offering its own hybrid vehicles for years, giving buyers who want a car with nicer appointments than the Prius an option. The CT 200h is one of the more recent hybrid entrants to the Lexus model line. This hatchback has no gasoline-only equivalent and cuts […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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The search engine giants, Google, are set to close their music service in China on October 19 after competing with the local leaders “Baidu Inc”, for almost three years. Baidu, a famous musical service in China, has been dominating the Chinese market ever since the U.S. search engine installed their office in Hong Kong to circumvent […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Apple shares hit another record high on Friday shortly after it commenced the sale of iPhone 5. The shares reached $704.63 in the middle of the morning. The shares were at $704.85 in the start of the business on Friday. The new phone is on sale in nine countries, the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Alibaba Group announced in a statement that it has finished the first round of repurchase of Yahoo’s stake in the company. The transaction will stream $7.6 Billion in Yahoo’s direction. China’s largest online retail and B2B giant announced on May 20 jointly with Yahoo that it will reduce the US-based web portal’s stake in Alibaba […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Verizon Wireless’ pending dividend payment to its parent companies, Vodafone and Verizon Communications has hit the investors’ nerve. The carrier is still to announce a profit payment that is the delaying Vodafone’s dividend distribution. Vodafone owns 45 percent stake in the major US carrier, while the rest majority goes to Verizon Communications. The dividend has […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Red Hat is expected to report a profitable quarter on Monday next week. The company is increasing its business, expanding services in virtualization and producing new storage products. Red Hat provides Linux-based software that are inexpensive compared to the old-Unix-based enterprise solutions. Moreover, the company is thriving to grab a bigger share in the cloud […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed both ViroPharma and Halozyme Therapeutics to resume their combined clinical trial treatment Friday after close inspection that spanned more than a month. Both ViroPharma and Halozymes were working on a hereditary angioedema disorder with a combination of former’s Cinryze and latter’s Enhanze platform. Cinryze ViroPharma’s patented drug that is […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Apple is running a hot streak. First the court case win on the legal grounds and now customer confidence win the market. The company set a new trend of all-time highs five days running and after a break of one day it hit another record high in the stock market. The shares were at $700.07 […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Western Digital and Seagate Technology announced their expectations for the current quarter ending September 30. Both companies lowered their estimations on sales and shipments due to lack of demand in global market. Western Digital and Seagate are the suppliers of hard disc drives to PC makers and also sell the storage products as standalone sells. […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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The round of introductions of new mobile devices continues. Lumia Nokia, which used Windows 8 for the first time, failed to meet user’s expectations as compared to the new iPhone5. However, the Taiwanese HTC company is unfazed by Microsoft’s windows failure in the telephony industry by forming a reportedly new alliance with the technology giants, Microsoft. HTC, […]
Sep 20 2012 | Posted in
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