Apple has surged into third place among mobile phone vendors thanks to its Iphone being sold in 90 countries.Figures compiled by analyst outfit IDC reported that Apple overtook LG and became the third largest shipper of mobile phones behind Samsung and Nokia. Apple’s 37 million shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 brought its annual [...]

Asusis being sued by Hasbro over the Transformer Prime because of its name.The toymaking company has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles asking for an injunction banning the device as well as payment of damages. Hasbro markets the Transformer action toys, one of which is called Optimus Prime. It claims that Asus is violating its [...]

Google has boasted that it now activates 700,000 Android devices per day.The numbers were revealed by Andy Rubin in a Google Plus post as a brief note. “There are nowover 700,000 Android devices activated every day,” wrote the Android operating system chief.Later he clarified the statement and explained that each activation is a new one, [...]

A Japanese supercomputer has broken the record as thefastestcomputerin the world, performing a whopping 10 quadrillion calculations per second.The supercomputer dubbed the K Computer is made up of over 88,000 SPARC64 VIIIfx central processing units, considerably more than the quad-, hexa-, or octa-core processors used in high-end gaming machines.It is also occupies 864 server racks.The [...]

Apple could sell as many as four million of its latest Iphone 4S smartphones this weekend.Thecappuccinocompany is poised to shift over twice as many Iphone 4S phones as it did Iphone 4 devices in their first months on sale,according to Bloombergand an analyst roundup.The four million figure comes from Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe, who [...]

Apple sold more smartphones than any other vendor in the second quarter of this year, according to analyst firm IDC.This puts Apple ahead of Samsung and Nokia, with its Iphone accounting for more than 19 per cent of the 106.5 million smartphones shipped globally.Meanwhile, rapidly sinking Nokia claimed 15.7 per cent market share, dropping to [...]

Intel is discontinuing its six-core Core i7-970 processor in both OEM and retail guises.Intel’sCorei7-970 chip sits on the bottom rung of the firm’s six-core ladder, heading up the high-end Core i7 line that sits just below the firm’s Extreme Edition units.Launched at the tail end of Summer 2010, the chip runs at 3.2GHz and under [...]

Google’s Android operating system will rule nearly half of the smartphone market by the end of 2012, according to the latest report by the dart-throwers at Gartner.It notes that 67 million Android phones shipped in 2010, giving it a market share of 22.7 per cent. The market research firm expects that to rise to 180 [...]

The iconic Iphone has always been expensive, but Apple is reported to be developing cheaper versions of the smartphone in its battle to head off the looming success ofAndroid.A version that can be thought of as a poor man’s Iphone is in the works,according to Bloomberg. The device will be cheaper and smaller, potentially broadening [...]