This is exactly what a Lenovo executive is claiming. Speaking to the Guardian on Friday, the director of consumer products and pricing for Lenovo Western Europe, Andrew Barrow, said he believes that of the million 7-inch Galaxy Tabs shipped by Samsung last year, the Korean company sold a mere 20,000. This is a surprisingly a very low turn-out. But there ... Read More »
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Now we need to clean Space Junk?!?
Space junk has made a mess of the Earth’s orbit and now experts believe its about time that we start to think about cleaning it up. We humans still haven’t learnt how to keep our cities clean, as a matter of fact not even our own home. And now we have to think about cleaning the junk in Earth’s orbit. ... Read More »
Google Shuts Down Google Desktop and 9 Other Services!
Google is trying to clean-up the clutter of services that it is offering. Google CEO Larry Page announced the end of many projects at Google including Aardvark which was acquired by Google in 2010. Its the normal process of Google to dump projects that is not having a wide user-base and are slow in development. What is surprising is that ... Read More »
Apple Stocks Loses Glamour on Steve Jobs Exit
The most valued company in the world seems to have lost its bling-bling, Steve Jobs. Naturally, its stocks took the damage and fell by 5%. After closing at $376.18, Apple stock has fallen 5 percent to $357.02 as of 7:59ET, according to NASDAQ on Aug 24th. Today though it seems flat without much change. Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO ... Read More »
Dog Mourns its Master’s death
Hawkeye joined the mourning of the death of its master. Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, attended by 1,500 family members, friends–and Hawkeye, Tumilson’s dog. The Labrador retriever was such an ... Read More »
Global Warming on Fast Track?
Scientists who are observing animals across the world have noted a strange trend of animals migrating north. But now they are just moving much faster then they were a decade ago. About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the equator at an average rate of more than 15 feet per day, about a mile per year, according to new ... Read More »
10-Year-Old Kid Finds Security Flaws in Mobile Games!
Now this must be really embarrassing for game creators. A 10-year-old hacker who goes by the alias CyFi found serious security flaws in mobile games that could be used to compromise sensitive information from the user. CyFi presented her findings at the DefCon hacker conference held in Las Vegas. She found that advancing the clock on a tablet or phone ... Read More »