Tech industry, which started out at a humble pace, has grown into a rapidly evolving arena. Today, tech companies need to evolve constantly or face doom. Given below are five worst decisions by tech companies which wrecked them.
As we move towards the conclusion of 2013, analysts are already making estimates about the next year. Research firm Canalys has now forecasted that a total of 285 million tablets will be sold during 2014.
In recent years, we have seen a number of researches working on devising better storage technologies. Few have, however, focused on the future of RAM, the temporary storage that lets us access and execute files and programs quickly. An alliance of US and Japanese companies is now working on next-generation MRAM which seems promising.
The three key Windows platforms right now are the regular Windows, Windows RT and Windows Phone. But one day, the company hopes, it will be able to unify them into one. Read in details.
Premium text messages have long been used by third-party vendors to trick customers into signing up, leading to piling mobile bills. This has finally resulted in action from wireless carriers, with the likes of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile agreeing to stop charging customers for most premium SMS (PSMS).
Facebook crunches, processes and stores immense amounts of data. The social network needs effective, yet affordable, methods of dealing with it all. It has now unveiled a new flash-powered database called RocksDB which provides really quick access to data. RocksDB has been declared open source by the company.
Google Maps tend to overlook the private details of different images, which is why Google is often in trouble for breaching people’s privacy when uploading these satellite images. Jose Barrera has now asked Google to take down an image which shows the dead body of his 14-year-old son who was murdered back in 2009.
Apple has initiated an online campaign to help gather funds for the relief of Philippine typhoon victims. The company has set up a new page where it provides the details of the campaign. You can then proceed to donate between $5 and $200 for the relief effort with the help of your iTunes Store account.