Apple’s WWDC 2013 event is scheduled to take place in June. It is expected that Apple will unveil the next versions of both iOS and OS X at the event. According to certain sources, Apple may include a major visual revamp in iOS 7, offering a more flat look.
Folks at iFixit have a knack of tearing down every new gadget on the market and then discern how repairable it is. While most of Apple’s products have score fairly low when it comes to repairability, Samsung Galaxy S4 is apparently easy to disassemble and repair, earning it a high repairability score.
Pew Charitable Trusts has released a new report which details the progress made on the clean energy front during 2012. According to this report, China was the global leader in clean energy investments last year, attracting investments to the tune of $65.1 billion.
Firefox OS recently created a lot of interest, with many smartphone vendors vowing to release Firefox OS phones soon. Geeksphone has apparently beaten all these vendors by announcing that it will start selling two Firefox OS phones from today. The phones are geared towards developers who want to try their hands at the new mobile OS.
The tablet market is expanding rapidly at this point and multiple vendors are now in a fierce competition to bring down their costs, trim their profits and bolster their sales. To this end, it is expected that we may soon see Android, Chrome OS and possibly Windows 8 arrive on top of cheap Intel-based devices, priced somewhere near $200.
In a world where smartphones and tablets are increasingly being used for all kinds of tasks, laptops still seem fairly bulky in comparison. However, hardware vendors have been trimming down the size of laptops. Inhon has now unveiled a new laptop which the company is touting as the world’s thinnest and lightest laptop.
PC sales have been taking a hit from the expanding mobile market for some time now. Hardware vendors have been finding it difficult to sustain their sales and profits due to this. It would now seem that even Apple’s Mac division is suffering as DigiTimes claims that Apple has altogether stopped placing orders for Mac components for now.
Facebook recently decided to notch up its presence on the Android platform by offering Facebook Home. The new app essentially makes the whole experience of using an Android devices more Facebook-centric. Quite surprisingly, Google’s Eric Schmidt has said that he really loves the idea.