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 [...]
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Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7.3 updatewas released for both client and server versions of the operating system with Apple packing in a gigabyte worth of fixes and security updates. The update brings greater language support and compatibility improvements to graphics performance with older ATI GPUs, Windows file sharing and WiFi, however the majority of the [...]
Mozillahas released Firefox 9, which improves performance and adds enhancements for tablets.The non-profit organisation is continuing with its quick fire releases and the most recent is now available with Javascript improvements. In some benchmarks, such as Kraken, thebrowseris up to 30 per cent faster than Firefox 8.Mozilla said, “The latest update to Firefox includes Type [...]
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 [...]
Google has updated its internet search algorithm and now claims to link search results with real world events.Google’s search algorithm is still the firm’s core money making product andGoogle claims its latest refinements to the algorithm now take into account real world events. Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow said the changes will affect 35 per [...]
Microsoft will include a heat map in the Windows 8 task manager in a bid to highlight potential problem applications.Microsoftclaims its upcomingWindows 8 task manager has something for both power users and those who want basic informationabout unresponsive programs. . User interface tweaks aside, the task manager in Windows 8 will have a heat map [...]
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 [...]