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India PC market booming with increase in desktops and laptop demand, says Gartner

India’s personal computer market is moving in almost the opposite direction from the US’ with an increase of almost 17 percent in the second fiscal quarter 2012 from a year-ago quarter. The leaders were Lenovo on the top, followed closely by Acer and Hewlett-Packard. However, the year-ago market leader Dell saw a decrease in the […]

Apple calls for the Samsung Mobile withdrawal in the U.S

Apple is in a hurry following the judgment in its favour on Friday regarding the patent trial he faces against his main rivals in the global market of mobile telephony; the Californian Company prompted the withdrawal of eight Samsung mobile. All of the Galaxy range, compatible with 4G technology mobile phones and marketed by the three major […]

Neil Armstrong, the true American hero, died on Saturday

The first man to walk the surface of the moon and a true American hero, Neil Alden Armstrong passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012 due to complications from cardiovascular surgery. He was 82 and was suffering from cardiac ailment for some time. Armstrong was the first man to engrave his foot in the moon […]

Microsoft might make billions out of the Apple-Samsung rut

Apple vs. Samsung case is generating all kinds of the news all over the world. The recent updates suggest the ironically the biggest winner of the case is not Apple or Samsung, but it is Microsoft. There are speculations that due to the fact that the basic reason behind the case was Android, OEMs will […]

Apple wins billions in damages but Samsung is far from a retreat

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OEMs likely to seek asylum at Microsoft as Android future falls in the mist

Apple’s win over Samsung is touted by many to be an indirect attack on a much bigger fish, Google. The patent infringements were mostly related to the software such as bounce-back list navigation feature. But some gurus say that battle with Google is very unlikely due to a number of players involved. Apple won approximately […]

Yahoo hires Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as Chief Marketing Officer

Savitt’s hiring marks the major human resource acquisition at Sunnyvale since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO Yahoo has hired Lockerz founder and CEO Kathy Savitt as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. The decision was made public on Monday, August 27. The former CEO of the social commerce website will certainly prove worthy with her […]

Federal Aviation Administration initiates research into the use of electronic devices in airplanes

The growing criticism over the restriction on the usage of cellphones and other mobile devices like tablets during airplane takeoffs and landings has forced authorities to revise the procedure. Federal Aviation Administration has authorized a research group to gather data on whether it is compulsory to turn off cellphones and tablets during flights. The research […]

General Motors releases a notification to halt Chevy Volt production at Hamtramck plant

General Motors is facing troubled times with its electric vehicle Chevrolet Volt. The plug-in electric car has seen a decrease in demand in the US. The company has announced to halt the production at its Detroit-Hamtramck based production units temporarily. The Hamtramck unit will go idle on production from September 17 to October 15, for […]

NASA’s Kepler discovers new exoplanets

NASA’s Kepler discovers new exoplanets NASA´s Kepler space telescope has discovered 41 new exoplanets in 20 distant star systems. They up the total number to 116 planets in 67 systems. The new transiting planets range from Earth-size to more than seven times the radius of Earth, but are too close to stars to be habitable. […]

Samsung shares fall after court verdict

Shares of tech giants, Samsung, have plummeted 7.5% in the Seoul Stock Exchange today after a U.S. jury condemned the company to pay 800 million Euros (1,000 million) for infringing patents US-based Apple last Friday. Google, which supplies the South Korean manufacturer’s Android operating system for its range of Galaxy phones and tablets, has broken the silence […]

Apple will launch the iPad Mini in October, sources confirm

September 12 launch event is solely dedicated to the new version of iPhone Apple will probably release the new and smaller iPad, claimed by many sources to named as iPad Mini, in October 2012. ATD’s John Paczkowski reported earlier that a number of authentic sources have confirmed that the new tablet will not be shown […]

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