Netflix’s video streaming services are availed by a sizeable population in the U.S. Things turned rather unfestive for the company on the Christmas eve when it witnessed a widespread outage of the service across the country. The streaming eventually resumed normal functioning later.
Google has come to have a significant presence in the smartphone arena, thanks to its Nexus line of smartphones. Still, the company is far from being a major hardware player. Rumors have it that Motorola Mobility is now helping Google ready a true iPhone competitor.
Game developer Infinite Dreams has thrown a Christmas sale on its popular games at Apple App Store. The offer includes the iOS Jelly Defense (selling at $0.99) and the highly-acclaimed game Shoot The Zombirds (available for FREE).
A huge number of iOS users had apparently refused to update to iOS 6 because of a lack of Google Maps. And now that a Google Maps app for iOS is here, these users seem to be making the switch rather rapidly. Ever since the app was released, there has been a 30% increase in unique iOS 6 users.
Online video service Hulu officially launched a monthly subscription service Hulu Plus on November 17, 2010. Do you know how many people are subscribed to Hulu Plus so far? It’s more than 3 million subscribers.
Research-In-Motion had earlier announced that it will be officially unveiling BlackBerry 10 towards the end of January, 2013. Whereas that is still a few weeks away, the web has been abuzz with allegedly leaked screenshots of the user interface that BlackBerry 10 is going to pack.
iOS users have been clamoring to get a Google Maps iOS app ever since Apple ditched Google’s mapping solution for its own. Google had finally released the app only last week and within 48 hours, the app had been downloaded more than 10 million times!
A number of tech companies increasingly rely on out-of-house manufacturing. This manufacturing is usually done in markets where labor is more affordable and thus, reduced manufacturing costs. Recently, one of Samsung’s suppliers, HTNS Shenzhen Co., was accused of hiring underage workers, an allegation which has proved wrong now.