Archive : Tech

Not content with the  marketing gimmick of  announcing free Samsung Galaxy S devices to disgruntled iPhone users,  in the latest ad for its Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung simply says “Hello,”  but, it  features bars of network characters making up the Ls in the word Hello and but everyone who has seen  and heard (who  hasnt) about  the signal issues on the iPhone 4  will instantly recognize [...]

During iPhone 4 press conference last week, Steve Jobs said that Apple would provide free cases to anyone who buys the iPhone 4 before September 30, the free case offer includes a choice of either Apple’s bumper or a third-party case. As part of that offer, Apple said it would offer refunds to iPhone 4 users who had already bought bumpers from Apple. True to its words, Apple has started the refund [...]

One of the least surprising Internet milestones of the past few years is finally reached, Facebook announced few hours ago that it has reached 500 million active users around the world, an unprecedented number for a social-networking site notwithstanding the backlash about the privacy concerns and the various quit-facebook movements which were seen recently. “This is an important milestone [...]

Image by Sigalakos via Flickr Apple has announced profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 a share ( Nasdaq),  for the last quarter, thanks to runaway sales of iPhones and iPads — as well as a surprise surge of Macintosh computer sales — gave Apple record-breaking revenues for its third quarter.. In a quarter in which Apple introduced both the new iPhone 4 as well as the iPad, it notched a 61 [...]

It’s the trailer you probably weren’t waiting for but heck, it is tech, it is social media, it should define a generation, heck it could be the next Matrix. ‘The Social Network‘ – depicts the early days of Facebook, you know when they has 22,000 hits in 2 hours. Before Zuckerburg had 500 million friends and a few enemies. Ah the life of an undergraduate, so very debonair. Want [...]

Twitter  continued its push to turn its popularity into a profitability by launching @earlybird, which is twitter’s version of limited-time-only online deals craze. its first @earlybird deal is a limited two-for-one ticket deal for the new Disney live-action flick “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” .  It’s Twitter’s second ad partnership with Disney, after a “promoted [...]

Apple has reportedly bought Poly9, a canada based online mapping company, and has relocated most of the firm’s employees to Apple’s Silicon Valley, California offices, If reports by Cyberpresse and The Sun are to be believed, Poly9 would be the second mapping company Apple purchased  after its acquisition of  Placebase, a company that produced a maps application programming interface [...]

Here we’re all big users of Google Mail, why? For all the same reasons you like to use it. About 6 months ago I stopped using a non web based email client and I haven’t looked back, well until I saw this video. Somehow the new Outlook looks a little more functional and a little more social. I’m going to go to the office tomorrow take the trouble to setup Outlook to sync with my Google [...]

Facebook will add a ‘panic button’ application for U.K. users which will report child abuse to Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported. Facebook was under pressure from just about everyone after a 17-year old girl was lured to her death [...]

iAds have landed and they are ringing the bells of the cash registers for developers/media owners. One reported on hacker news earnings on their first day of $1,372.20. That’s a fair chunk of cash when you consider the effective cost per thousand (eCPM) ad displayed worked out at $147.55. Based on the chart above the developer (publisher/media owner) has shown the iAds on their app a total [...]