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iPod Touch makes 40 percent of Apple iOS sales

Apple iOS sales

According to a report, iPod Touch makes up nearly 40 percent of Apple’s mobile devices sales. A market research firm, Asymco, said that about 45 million iPod Touch has been sold over its lifetime out of the 120 million iOS devices Apple shipped overall. The number of iPod touch sold is big relative to the [...]

Sony Challenges Apple’s iTunes Store

Sony

Sony announced that it will start a music and video streaming service in five European countries to challenge the iTunes store of Apple. According to the Tokyo-based company, Qriocity will start in Germany, Spain, France, U.K. and Italy. Sony said that the new service will be made available in PlayStation 3 game console, Bravia TV [...]

Sony unveils 3-D Laptop for 2011

3-D Vaio Laptop

Sony showed recently some of its models of 3-D Vaio Laptop that they would release next year. The new 3D laptops, capable of displaying images, videos, and games on 3-D, were introduced in Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) electronics show on Wednesday. The new Vaio model comes with a 3-D button and specially designed active-shutter glass [...]

$20M will solve the price of Infinite Power Solutions

Thin film batteries

Thin film batteries are one of the solutions to smoother, leaner and more powerful gadgets. Principally, it has the capacity of a standard lithium ion cells, however, the thing is that it can be mold into different shapes. This week, Infinite Power Batteries, a company seeking to distribute the future-generation of thin film batteries, is [...]

Microsoft gets its own “Gray Powell” as Windows 8 Leaked

Italian blog named Windowsette published a PowerPoint slide deck over the weekend that appears to be a detail to the next version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, called “Windows 8.” The revealed slide deck may not lead to a funny story like that of Gray Powell and the iPhone 4 prototype, but the punchline is [...]

Xbox 360: First for Call of Duty Add-ons until 2012

Xbox 360

For Call of Duty gamers on the Xbox 360, they will be the first to have a firm supply of add-ons on Xbox 360 until 2012, based on the new agreement between Activision and Microsoft. This has been going on since 2009 but now, they extended it until 2012. Next in line for the franchise [...]