Archive : Tech

Twitter’s new video sharing platform, Vine is causing the company some embarassment, some people have been using it for porn ads and naked images. By searching for the tags “#porn” or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens. The app, which is currently only available for iPhone and iPod Touch, [...]

Surprise, Huawei had the third largest market share in the global smartphone industry in the fourth quarter. While the Chinese manufacturer trailed Samsung and Apple, it did unveil the Huawei Ascend P1 S, which has a 6.68mm thin design to be the thinnest smartphone made. Huawei held a 4.9 percent marketshare based on unit shipments. This is much less than the 29 percent chunk held by Samsung and Apple’s [...]

Samsung bought more mobile chips than any other company in 2012, according to new data from Gartner. Samsung and Apple  ordered $45.3 billion worth of semiconductors in 2012 which according to Gartner is  up $7.9 billion from 2012. Samsung was 8% of the chip market last year, while Apple was 7.2% of the market. They were followed by Hewlett-Packard (4.7% of the market), Dell (2.9%) and Sony (2.7%). [...]

Five ex-employees of Apple, Google, and Intel are suing those companies, accusing them of an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other’s employees and drive down wages.” according to the Telegraph. To solidify their case, the plaintiffs  have cited internal emails between these executives, including some from Steve Jobs to the heads of companies caught trying to hire [...]

The Microsoft Surface Pro with Windows 8, will start selling  in U.S. and Canada on February 9th and will soon after make it to U.K.shelves. Microsoft took it’s own sweet time in  launching the premium tablet, which shares a similar design with its Surface RT variant but packs an x86-based Core i5 chip, 4GB RAM, a 10.6-inch 1920×1080 pixel screen, 64-128GB internal storage, a USB 3.0 port, [...]

Mozilla, who gave us the a better alternate to the archaic Internet Explorer browser had long had plans to change the mobile OS arena,it  introduced  phones powered by  Firefox OS on Tuesday. Stormy Peters, Director of Websites and Developer Engagement at Mozilla wrote : “Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards. In Firefox OS, HTML5 apps can do “phone [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Note gave rise to the moniker Phablet, the word did not stick but the phone and it’s successor raked in sales and gave smartphones a new category. Samsung is reportedly raising the big higher 5.8-inch device known as the “Galaxy Fonblet” according to reports by SamMobile. The report adds”According to the latest information from our insider Samsung will soon announce [...]

Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers after releasing build 12D50 earlier this month on Jan. 8 with no known issues. Apple says that the new build includes significant changes to WiFi, developers have been asked to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. Apple’s latest release have touted a new “OS X Software Update Seed Configuration [...]

Facebook has introduced out free voice calling for iPhone users within Facebook Messenger app for users in the US, earlier they tested after testing it for a short time in Canada. Free VOIP calling is already popular with apps like Viber, it is pretty big news when it lands on a Facebook app. Of course, the benefits of using Facebook Messenger to make voice calls are that it’s free with Wi-Fi and [...]