Dell, is considering going private and is in buyout talks with at least two private equity firms according to Bloomberg. Dell has lost over 33% of it’s value in the past year. Dell’s profits were down 34% year-over-year, revenue went down 7% year-over-year. “Tablets have dramatically changed the device landscape for PCs, not so much by ‘cannibalising’ PC sales, but by causing [...]

Apple Decreased iPhone 5 Components Orders Due to Weak Demand, Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 screens and other components due to weaker than expected demand, according to the Wall Street Journal. : Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said. The Cupertino, [...]

Apple will soon announce its iPad 5 according to the rumors which stemmed from Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White observations from this week’s CES in Las Vegas, U.S. White noted “Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release the iPad 5 and the second-generation iPad mini this March. The iPad 5 is expected to be lighter and thinner than the iPad 4 that was released in October, while [...]

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Java 7 security making billions of computers susceptible to a serious flaw. The threat is serious enough that the US Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, ZDNet informs. The zero-day flaw affects not only the Java 7 plug-in, but all versions of the java plugin for web browsers. [...]

Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets which were published by Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg earlier this week turned out to be incorrect based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller. Reuters issued an update Friday morning informing readers that it had withdrawn the story, which featured the headline “Apple exec dismisses cheaper [...]

Mozilla has released Firefox 18 for desktop client with an update to its Android app. The update for the desktop client, announced on Tuesday  includes Firefox’s new JavaScript compiler ionMonkey which “makes Web apps and games perform up to 25 percent faster”. Firefox made the announcement through a Blog post : Firefox also supports high-resolution Retina Display for Mac users to [...]

Chinese phone maker, Huawei unveiled the Ascend Mate and the Ascend D2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Huawei Ascend Mate has a amazing 6.1 inch display powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. It packs  an average 8 megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a microSD card slot. Equally impressive as the screen size, is the whopping 4050mAh battery, which the company  claims [...]

Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses and upgrades for its new Windows 8 operating system in the 10 weeks since its launch according to Tammi Reller, chief financial and chief marketing officer of Windows, who announced the milestone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here’s what the Windows blog team had to say about it: At the 11th Annual J.P. Morgan Tech Forum at [...]

Apple’s iPhone 5 has been ranked the worst top smartphone at each of the three U.S. mobile phone carriers that sell the phone by a report published by Consumer Reports according to a report published by Business Insider. Topping the lists are the Samsung Galaxy S3, the LG Optimus G, and Motorola RAZR HD. Apple’s next-generation iPhone could launch soon and the company has some ground to make up [...]

Apple  today announced that nearly 20 billions apps were downloaded in 2012 from its App Store, bringing the total number of App Store downloads to 40 billion. “The App Store℠ has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone®, iPad® and [...]