Archive for May 19th, 2012
Amazon Kindle Fire sells six million over festive season
Amazon sold six million Amazon Kindle Fire tablets over the festive season, according to an industry analyst. The tablet went on sale on November 15th, but managed to get six million by the end of 2011 says Jordan Rohan of in...
Obama re-election campaign to use Square mobile payments
Politico is reporting that during Obama’s re-election campaign he is providing headquarters staff, volunteers and field organisers with the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones using the Square ...
Are Tablets Taking Over? [Infographic]
Are tablets taking over? In 2011, almost 5 percent of all Internet traffic from global markets, including the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, came from non-computer devices. While mobile is clearly in the lead, tablet...
No new Xbox in 2012 says Microsoft, doesn’t rule out announcement
The new Xbox will not be released this year, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft France’s marketing director Cedrick Delmas said that he is certain nothing new will be released in 2012. While this rules out a new cons...
Samsung Galaxy S Advance is official
Samsung has officially announced that the Galaxy S Advance will be the latest device in the Galaxy family. “The GALAXY S Advance adds to the successful track record of the GALAXY smartphone range with a phone that combine...
Samsung Galaxy Note coming to AT&T February 19th, pre-orders February 5th
The Samsung Galaxy note will be coming to AT&T stores in blue and ceramic white on February 19th for $299.99 on a two-year contract and pre-orders will start on February 5th. Customers will be able to pre-order the devi...
Nintendo Network coming to Wii U to compete with Xbox Live & PSN
The Wii is set to try and compete with Xbox and PlayStation with a network of its own. According to Yahoo! News, Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata announced the new service during the company’s quarterly earnings c...
Google Panda in Plain English
At the start of 2011, Google changed its Panda algortihm which changed SEO. Over the past year lots of chatter has been about how to protect your site from Panda, but things can get pretty complicated and confusing quickly. So ...
The Rules of the Online Road: Transparency vs Anonymity
In the online world there’s a continuum from hyper-transparency/real identity all the way to obfuscation/anonymity. The poles are represented by Facebook and 4Chan. This infographic takes a look at these opposing ideas and so...
RIM’s Lazaridis on giving up CEO role: “It was very hard”
Speaking to TheRecord Mike Lazaridis has explained his feelings about stepping down as Co-CEO of RIM. Mike Lazaridis founded RIM in 1984 and says “It was very hard” giving up the position with co-chief executive ...
