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Apple Dumping Intel For ARM?
The rumor of the day is that Apple is dumping Intel and its x86 architecture for ARM and now the idea that Apple would move to ARM isn’t exactly new. Jason Perlow argued that case a while ago and it seems that Apple intends to migrate their laptop and desktop range to ARM-based chips, the sooner the better……….
U.S. Cellular’s 4G LTE Plans For 2011
US Cellular announces 4G plans to light up LTE by end of year, intent on blanketing two dozen markets with blazing-fast 4G service in time for the holiday season.The nation’s sixth largest mobile operator will roll out 4G service in stages, starting with Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin and they also plans to expand the speedier network to a total of two dozen markets by the holiday season, continuing to offer more 4G-capable phones through 2012………..
Sleek Audio Cancel Plans To Develop Products Under The Sleek by 50 Brand
Sleek Audio and G-Unit Brands Inc 50 Cent’s Licensing Company, cancel plans to develop products under the Sleek by 50 brand and that it will be re-evaluating our Wireless Hybrid over-the-ear headphones at a later date.Sleek Audio announced that it is ending its contractual agreement with 50’s G-Unit Brands licensing company and G-Unit henchman unveiled his wireless headphone line back in January, when he debuted the hardware at 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show…………
Playstation Network Back Online
Sony announced that some PSN services, including online play would come back this week and Sony’s Patrick Seybold passes along the bad news that service renewal has been delayed to an unspecified time.Sony’s Patrick Seybold passes along the bad news that service renewal has been delayed to an unspecified time and is giving users 30 free days each PlayStation Plus premium services, as well as some free downloadable content…………..
Smartphone Market Grows 79.7% Year Over Year In First Quarter Of 2011
The worldwide smartphone market has grown 79.7% year-over-year with smartphone vendors shipping a total of 99.6 million units in in the first quarter of 2011, market research firm IDC reports and Nokia is still the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer market share, its decline has been amazingly fast.Samsung shipments rise 350 percent and has more than quadrupled its output to 10.8 million shipments in the quarter.The other big gainer is Apple, with 10 million more iPhones shipped, but the truth is that all the top five vendors are showing double-digit growth and IDC has also released data for Western Europe that shows Nokia has lost the top spot both in terms of smartphones…………
Clearwire Reports Q1 2011 Results
Clearwire posts Q1 loss amid record subscribers, decides not to sell spectrum after all and that included a more than doubling of revenue to $242 million.Clearwire experienced record subscriber growth, seeing an increase of 533 percent year-over-year from Q1 2010 and predicts it will end the year with nearly a million more subs than originally forecasted (9.5 million, up from 8.8)……….
Apple ranks 35 in Forbes’ top 500
The well-known financial publication Forbes has launched its top 500, an annual top which includes the first 500 American companies that reported the biggest revenues. Apple has managed to climb 21 spots and now ranks 35 after they have reported revenues amounting to 65 billion dollars. This is a huge sum of money and equals the company’s financial reserve which has increased in recent years due to the iDcevices’ success. They have been the sales engine and pushed the company forward.
World’s Biggest CMOS Sensor
World’s biggest CMOS sensor could help doctors detect and heralds better treatment for cancer patients.Measuring a hefty 12.8 square cm, DyNAMITe is roughly 200 times bigger than the chips you’d find in most PCs, making it the largest imager ever made on a wafer of standard and this extra girth allows the active pixel sensor to capture images in high detail with a 100-micrometer pitch boasting 1280 x 1280p aligned next to a 50-micron layer, carrying 2560 x 2560p………
iPad Study Released By Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University release iPad study and college kids like having iPads in the classroom.The school introduced the tablets in a handful of lecture halls and classrooms, as part of its iPad Pilot Program and teachers involved in the study said they benefited from all the educational software available on Apple’s App Store.During the fall 2010 semester, five sections of two courses on two campuses used Apple’s tablet as part of the university’s iPad Pilot Program and the goal was to determine the impact the iPad would have on both students and faculty……..
American Airlines Testing In-Flight Media Streaming
American Airlines becomes the first North American airline to test streaming inflight entertainment and american to enhance customer connectivity with inflight streaming video and expansion of Wi-Fi to virtually entire domestic fleet.This would offer passengers a better selection of entertainment content than the two most recently released movies or lame TV show reruns you purposely missed the first time around and bring airline companies n additional source of income…….
Samsung Signs Beckham As Olympic Games Ambassador
Samsung hires David Beckham as a global brand ambassador and Mr. Becks will be responsible for disseminating the news that Samsung is one of the major sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics.Beckham will begin his ambassador role with immediate effect and will help raise awareness of Samsung’s sponsorship of London 2012 as a Worldwide Olympic Partner and the agreement will start with Beckham appearing in multi-platform ads and PR campaigns………..
Pandora Comedy Stations
Pandora gets a case of the giggles, now offers comedy stations and just like music stations on Pandora, comedy stations can be personalized to each individual’s taste.Powered by the Comedy Genome Project, listeners can create comedy stations based on their favorite comedians or on popular genres such as political comedy, working class comedy, PG comedy, or comedy from the 2000s, 60s and 70s, or 80s and 90s…………
Vudu Adds Popular TV Shows
Vudu adds TV shows to its rental catalog, but only some are in HD and it’s currently only offering a small subset of them in anything other than standard definition.There’s an odd situation where some things are a decent value (season one of The Walking Dead is $26.99 on Blu-ray at Amazon, $15.99 on iTunes in HD, and $16.99 on Vudu HDX) and others are not (season six of Weeds is $27.99 on Vudu HDX, $23.99 on Blu-ray at Amazon and $38.87 on iTunes)……….
Boeing Phantom Ray Aircraft
Boeing’s little delta wing is all grown up and flying on its own for the first time and drone took to the skies for 17 minutes over Edwards Air Force Base last week, proving its airworthiness and also showing off Boeing’s ability to quickly design and build a prototype advanced unmanned air system.Boeing will be running additional tests on the autonomous vehicle in the coming weeks in attempt to prep it for possible future surveillance and attack missions…………
Microsoft Invests in Blackberry, Makes Bing Default Search Engine
Steve Balmer showed up at Blackberry World and gave the news that Microsoft was planning to invest seriously in RIM and thus create a stronger partnership with the Canadians. Microsoft is going to invest in the Blackberry platform so that Bing becomes the default search engine. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, they are planning to introduce Bing as a default search engine for US and international select markets starting from this years’ season holidays.
