Posted in Technology on 29. Dec, 2011
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 29, 2011– (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers. Authors also continue to benefit from the success of Kindle – the #1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 [...]
Posted in Technology on 29. Dec, 2011
It’s hard to set much store by early sales performance, particularly after the evergreen 3DS faced such a rocky road. Nevertheless, the Vita’s latest stats do look disappointing for such a highly anticipated — not to mention high-quality — console: after shifting a remarkable 321,000 units during its first two days on sale in Japan, [...]
Posted in Product Review, Technology on 29. Dec, 2011
Samsung Electronics Ships over 1 Million Units of Galaxy Note Globally Samsung’s flagship smart device Galaxy Note has reached 1 million global shipping. Samsung Electronics said on the 29th that it has shipped more than 1 million units of Galaxy Note globally. The worldwide sales of Galaxy Note are also on the rise in Europe [...]
Posted in Product Review, Technology on 21. Dec, 2011
Symbian is already on its last legs as a mobile OS, now Nokia is giving it a bit of a kick while its down by ditching the name it grew up with and rebranding the latest version simply Nokia Belle. That’s right, the Symbian title we’ve all come to know and love is being retired [...]
Posted in Software, Technology on 21. Dec, 2011
At some point, we’ll all have to stop binging on discounted apps and start being reflective — and that’s when Distimo’s 2011 ‘App Year in Review’ report can serve as a nice digestive. Alongside some predictable trends, such as an impressive 400 percent surge in available Windows Phone apps, it also reveals a few interesting stats about [...]
Posted in Software, Technology on 21. Dec, 2011
Looking for growth? You’ve found it. If you’ll recall, Google’s own Senior Vice President of Mobile Andy Rubin confirmed that over 500,000 Android devices were being activated back in June, and during last month’s Galaxy Nexus reveal, we learned that said figure had increased to 550,000 per day. In just over a month, the tally has now climbed to 700,000 [...]
Posted in Technology on 19. Dec, 2011
Facebook’s Timeline feature has only just begun to roll out across the globe, and now an iOS version has sidled up next to its Android counterpart — making it even easier for us to recheck our social network back stories. The new app is currently only available for the iPhone, but Facebook states that an iPad-friendly update will [...]
Posted in Blogging, Technology on 19. Dec, 2011
The welfare of Chinese workers is back in the spotlight after an explosion at Shanghai-based Riteng Computer Accessory Company left 23 people in hospital with burns and another 34 with more minor injuries. Local government officials said the explosion happened on Saturday afternoon at a workshop on the fourth floor of the facility. Riteng is a subsidiary [...]
Posted in Technology on 19. Dec, 2011
Sure the writing was on the wall, but yes, fans of wildly impractical yet extremely fast EVs, your day of reckoning has come. The atomic red rocket-ship above — photographed by our friends at AutoBlog – is one of fifteen “Final Edition” roadsters, which brings the company’s contract with Lotus for 2,600 sports cars to a close. Those [...]
Posted in Technology on 17. Dec, 2011
Sprint may have stood by its use of Carrier IQ on its smartphones when the furor over the software erupted a couple of weeks back — while insisting all along that it was only used for network diagnostic purposes — but it’s now apparently had a change of heart. In a statement to Mobile Burn, Sprint says that it has [...]
