Archive : Tech

Google and China has always been at loggerheads, however, here is a piece of positive news , China has renewed Google’s licence in a move that allows the web giant to continue operating in China. Google has confirmed that Beijing has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but after [...]

eBay seems to be working furiously on expanding its mobile applications, The ecommerce giants has announced  the release  of eBay Selling application and its eBay for iPad application. The application is now available in Germany and the UK, and the eBay for iPad application is now translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish and currently available through Apple’s 77 iTunes App Stores. “We [...]

Groupola announced that its newsletter subscribers has  the possibility to get a £99 iPhone 4 today morning without a mention of how many units would be available for these ‘lucky’ subscribers. For this too good to be true offer, Groupola’s website immediately crashed under the strain of the high-volume web traffic, and blogosphere including tweets and Groupola’s own Facebook [...]

Move over Facebook’s complex privacy control and user-data sharing issues, Google has gone one-up on Facebook by scooping up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service. French National Commission on Computing and Liberty CNIL, has begun looking into the exact data that Google’s Street View cars captured, and have  found that the “sensitive data” [...]

Its a season of updates from Apple inc. following  the release of Apple’s iOS 4 mobile software and Safari 5 in software category and new mac mini and iPhone 4 in hardware. Apple released iTunes 9.2  with loads of new features, most of them to enable compatibility with the pending software update coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch next week. Apple iTunes 9.2 promises faster syncing [...]

Microsoft Kinect is not the only interactive gaming controller  at E3,  Sony has announced PlayStation Move  its  upcoming motion-sensing game controller platform for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) along with the details of the games it is planning to to release over the next 12 months, with focus on 3D . PlayStation Move will be released in Europe on 15 September for 40 Euros (£33).

First it was Microsoft who announced the latest upgrade to Xbox 360, the Japanese video game makers released Nintendo 3DS at the  E3 expo in Los Angeles, Nintendo 3DS will be the first handheld gaming system to support 3D gaming experience that too without 3D lenses. Nintendo didn’t talk about when it plans to release the 3DS or how much it would cost . Nintendo 3DS features is a main screen with [...]

After the recent announcement of new upgrades to iPhone and Safari 5, how could Apple leave out it iconic Mac series untouched by upgrades, on Tuesday it released a new Mac mini computer with an HDMI port and faster processors and several new hardware features. The processors have been upgraded to a  2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo  processor and the other with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The [...]

Apple release of it’s own ad network iAds is the clearest signal that mobile advertising has reached a tipping point. Watch this segment grow up fast and become hugely influential in the future role of digital and traditional marketing. iTunes in my mind has evolved Apple into so much more than a technology company. iTunes now sits at the very core of the distribution business model that Apple [...]

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