Archive : Computers

There comes a time when tech companies realize that there is only so much they can do with the aesthetics of a product in a specific form factor. Take the Bar form factor Touchscreen Smartphones for example. Sure you can play around with the material, screen size, button placement and colors but in the end the one phone doesn’t look too much more different from others.   Something similar could [...]

When Google released its search engine back in the 90s, it was in the face of fierce competition from established competitors such as Yahoo and AltaVista. When Gmail was launched by Google, it was once again stacked up against strong odds. When Google released its web-browser “Chrome”, doubts were once again raised due to strong competitors. Well, the current situation clearly specifies that Google [...]

What people may not realize is that, this great lineup was hardly a surprise. Sony, whether acting solo or in coordination with anyone else, has been known the world over for great consumer electronics. This is the same company that came up with the Walkman, the product that started the portable music player revolution; It is the same company that makes some of the best televisions in the world; It [...]

Just yesterday I read the news and I was sad and excited at the same time. Sad because the status I have up on Facebook reads “Enjoying my new iPad so much, can’t get myself to put it down” and is not even three days old. But I guess my intense commitment to the iPad was meant to be short lived, because there is something out there now that made me so much more excited. A certain tech company [...]

US computer giant Apple is in negotiations to buy Chinese Internet game developer Handseeing Information Technology, a top executive with the Chinese firm said Friday. “We are indeed in talks,” Handseeing’s deputy general manager Tian Bo told AFP, adding discussions had been going on for “a certain period of time”. When asked when the negotiations could end, he said he [...]

The Australian government Friday committed to expanding its fibre broadband Internet network to a further 300,000 homes across the vast island continent if re-elected at next month’s polls. Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s multi-billion-dollar Internet rollout is seen as a key point of difference in the August 21 elections, with the opposition vowing to abolish the National Broadband [...]

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that developing Windows-based tablet computers and getting them to market is “job one urgency” for the US software giant. “We have got to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates,” Ballmer told financial analysts at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, during a meeting that was streamed live on the Web. “It [...]