Software giant Microsoft and Chinese telecoms giant Huawei are gearing up to spread the Windows Phone widely. Microsoft and Huawei have jointly announced that they are going to bring affordable, low-cost Windows Phone powered devices to capture the African market.
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We are running poll in TTJ for a while and this is our first poll result announcement. We asked our user “Which one is your favorite Tablet?“. As expected iPad wins by 41% vote, but most interesting was other Tablets position on the list. Check the details report inside.
To bring computing power to the students, online charity DonorsChoose.org along with Google, started selling Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks for students and school teachers at $99 from December 10, 2012. With such low price, it was for sure that Google Chromebook would create a buzz, and they did. Now the machines are used in 2,000 schools, according to Google.
If any laptop model has gained signification popularity in recent months, it would be the Chromebook. Offered by multiple vendors right now, the Chromebooks are light-weight notebooks which offer a whole range of basic computing tasks and a plethora of Google apps. According to some insiders, HP is also readying to enter the Chromebook space.
RIM has been ‘virtually’ out of the smartphone game, an arena which is overwhelmingly dominated by Apple and Samsung these days. However, the company hopes to make a come back with its flagship BlackBerry Z10, a new BlackBerry 10 handset that it unveiled yesterday.
We know that South Korean tech giant Samsung is going to launch an 8-inch display equipped tablet – Galaxy Note 8.0 at the MWC 2013. But seems like Samsung is not the only company who will launch an 8-inch display equipped tablet. Recently, ZTE has announced to bring an 8-inch display equipped tablet called ZTE V81 at the MWC 2013.
France has always taken a rather aggressive stand when it comes to its culture, language or norms. The country has long tried to dissuade its citizens from using English actively, claiming that this may damage French in the long-run. The French Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologie has now banned the popular Twitter term ‘hashtag.’
Nokia has proved itself committed to the Windows Phone platform, along with Symbian, over the recent years. Whereas companies such as HTC and Samsung have tried to gain a foothold in both the Android and Windows Phone platforms, Nokia has categorically debunked the possibility of creating an Android smartphone in the near future.