Business and Technology news of the day
No! All XBox 360 versions, including the Slim, come with a 10/100MB Network Card. The Microsoft XBox 360 motherboard has had several version changes, just like all long life electronics, usually as a result of manufacturing improvements designed to save money. XBox 360 Motherboard Hardware Revisions (from the good people at WikiPedia) Read more…
This isn an excelled parody of the new campaign by Apple for the iPad 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW37nPzpAwY&feature=player_embedded#!
This disaster recovery tool is often shown for only for Windows 7, Vista and XP (both 32bit and 64bit) but their site says it also works with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2003… This program can easily be used to recover lost data, backup or clone disks, edit the registry, undo Read more…
“…When security company Trusteer spotted an advertisement offering on-demand calls at $10 a pop for cybercriminals to obtain missing pieces of information needed to execute identity theft, readers wanted to know about it. Illegal call services are not new. Their staff is trained to impersonate bank employees, computer technicians, travel Read more…
The Seagate and Samsung strategic alignment benefits all our customers — from the consumer to the enterprise. Our combined strengths will allow Seagate to offer a more extensive portfolio of innovative storage solutions and to quickly develop new solutions that address the industry’s rapidly evolving storage needs. What’s more, Samsung Read more…
Western Digital – Effective date on January 2nd, 2012 Desktop and Mobile drives (Blue and Green family lines) change from 3 years to 2 years. Black product line will remain at 5 years warranty. Enterprise class products stay at 5 years warranty. Product Line Limited Warranty Period (as of Read more…
Many sites are now saying the Microsoft will not have betas of their core products, namely Windows 8, IE10 and Office 2012 at CES in January of 2012. Instead it appears that these products will go to public beta’s in February 2012.
“…That’s 700,000 a day, 21 million a month or 63 million per quarter. What about iOS? Apple won’t likely reveal numbers until January, when announcing holiday quarter results. Don’t expect them to be anywhere near as high, but not trailing way far behind, either. Android activations are lopsided, mostly from Read more…
“…It is a move sure to change the dynamics of the Consumer Electronics Show, and one the tech media may not have expected so soon. Microsoft announced Wednesday that CES 2012 is the last it will maintain a significant presence. After this January? No keynotes, no booth… …The company was Read more…
“…(Samsung) in third quarter, Samsung sold 24 million smartphones — nearly 7 million more than Apple… While American bloggers and journalists obsess about iPhone, across the globe Samsung makes huge strides that eclipse Apple. While best known for Android phones like the S2, Samsung has a three-operating system strategy that Read more…
“…Canadians consume more video on the Web than any other nationality on the planet, according to the latest figures from comScore Inc. The average Canadian spends 16.8 hours per month viewing 221 videos on the Net, topping the U.S. average of 13 hours a month spent viewing 200 videos. And Read more…
Shaw has started providing WiFi service to its customers without additional charge (i.e. free) as part of their home internet packages. Any data you consume on the WiFi is simply counted against your home data plan, which is not a problem for most people. Apparently Shaw see’s this as competition to Read more…
Note that these numbers are the share of operating systems in use… not selling today. In other words, Apple looks like the big winner here when in fact Samsun and HTC are outselling Apple most months, thereby eating into Apples iOS overall market share. Android 42% (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) Apple Read more…
Hewlett Packard (HP) lost over $3 BILLION (yes, with a B) largely as a result of the writing down Palm and WebOS. The video also discusses Facebooks Initial Public Offering (IPO), Apple without Steve Jobs, and other tech stock issues. They also discuss how unreasonable ink prices are for ink jet printers and Read more…
This is a short video on how I dismatled my 7″ Chinese ePad / aPad Tablet which was running Android 2.3 so I could see what the inside looked like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLc98HqBNR8
In the United States the Occupy Wall Street “situation” makes sense because: The Banks that took crazy risks and then “insured” them with Credit Default Swaps successfully pushed the free market risk to the public. The Banks continues to aggressively (and successfully) lobby to block regulation that would stop this Read more…