Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Wikipedia celebrates 10th year anniversary worldwide

Wikipedia

Wikipedia, a free to edit encyclopedia site, celebrates its 10th year anniversary today, January 15, 2011. To mark the occasion in celebrating a decade of foundation, there are events and online activities that the site organized to commemorate the special event. There are about 290 events that will take place in 121 countries worldwide. Wikipedia [...]

Kinect’s Viral Effect Lead to Xbox Shortage

Kinect

Viral effect of Kinect after it was launch in the market was to blame on Xbox 360 scarcity in the first two months of 2011. Microsoft announced possible Xbox 360 console shortage after it confirmed that it pulled out Xbox units from its January and February supply to cope with holiday demands because of the [...]

IDC analyst: Tablets to dominate 2011 tech market

Tablets

International Data (IDC) analyst David Daoud projected that tablets will post a significant growth in 2011. The analysis was merely based on the weaker-than-expected growth that experts observed on the global shipments of personal computers in the last quarter of 2010 because of consumers interest on tablet PCs. Analysts said that even the laptops that [...]

34,000-year-old bacteria found in salt crystals

34000 year old bacteria

The 34,000 year old bacteria were discovered in prehistoric salt crystals revealed for research from deep under Death Valley. According to Brian Schubert, the scientist who made the bacteria discovery, it was an astonishing breakthrough of sci-fi proportions. Schubert took a second look at the 34,000-year-old salt crystals that had been initially excavated for climate [...]

Intel Earnings Increase

Intel

Reports said Thursday that Intel’s fourth-quarter profit rose 48 percent, allowing the company to expect stronger quarterly revenue of $11.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million. According to the reports, Intel posted earnings per share of about 59 cents, beating median projection of 53 cents. Analysts said that such increase suggests that the world’s largest [...]

Amber Alert launched in Facebook

Facebook amber alert

Facebook added a new page for the Amber Alert Program to help people across the US to solve child-abduction cases. The Amber alert program was named after a nine-year old abduction murder victim, Amber Hagerman , in 1996. The move to broadcast AMBER alert is to make it easier for Facebook users to get information [...]

Verizon’s iPhone threatens AT&T Sales

Verizon iPhone

Verizon’s announcement of Apple’s iPhone offering on its network will be a threat on AT&T sales. Some analysts predicted that the new Verizon offering will hurt AT&Ts sales figure this year. AT&T, the sole carrier of iPhone in the U.S., encountered a lot of problem in the past by selling the popular device on its [...]

Firefox surpasses Internet Explorer as most-popular browser in EU

Firefox

StatCounter, a market research firm, stated that Firefox surpassed the throne of Internet Explorer of Microsoft as the most well-liked Internet browser in Europe. StatCounter Global Stats also stated that Firefox took the 38.11 percent of the market share in Europe, compared with the 37.52 percent of Internet Explorer (IE) last month. Aodhan Cullen, the [...]

Sophos YouTube Video: Facebook Shutdown a Hoax

Facebook

Sophos security released a video on YouTube telling that the Facebook’s March 15 shut down schedule is a hoax. The video showed the viral effect of an internet rumor stated that the largest social network worldwide is set to halt its operation because Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO funder, was already tired of running the [...]

140 K people attend 2011 CES

2011 CES

According to initial figures, there are more than 140,000 people who attend the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas. Furthermore, the preliminary figures are ten percent higher from last year’s CES event that has 126,000 attendees. The event of CES is the largest trade show for technology globally. It is also a [...]