Moshe Lichtman, the president of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s R&D center, said at the annual press conference of the company that is considering the recruitment of 100 more employees to its cloud computing projects. “Just over a year ago, we launched a free security product. The product has had 100 million downloads in the past year, [...]
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Sprint Shocks Tech World With Kyocera Echo
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Sprint is hoping the Echo’s unique design will drum up more attention for the company’s products and services at a time when the carrier needs more high-end devices to replace its two marquee phones, the HTC Corp. (2498.TW) Evo and the Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE) Epic, which are beginning to show their age at a [...]
Is Nokia And Microsoft Uniting For A New Windows 7 Phone
Sunday, February 6th, 2011There are rumors suggesting that Nokia and Microsoft may announce a partnership in which Nokia would run Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system on some of its smartphones. The decision would be a big move away from Symbian, which Nokia typically offers on its smartphones, and MeeGo, an operating system that Nokia has said would [...]
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer Is Not King Anymore
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Microsoft, while still the top browser maker, saw Internet Explorer slide as a fraction of worldwide usage from 57.1 percent in December 2010 to 56 percent in January, according to statistics from analytics firm Net Applications released today. That decline continues a years-long trend for the company, which first lost share to Mozilla’s Firefox but [...]
Will Nook Live Up To Its Potential For Barnes And Nobles (NYSE: BKS)
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Yeah, we knew that Barnes & Noble’s NookColor eReader would be running Android. But did we suspect it would do this much? Modders have managed to root it, install the Android Market on it, and do all sorts of things on the device. Who knew that the little eReader would end up being such a [...]
Baxter International (NYSE: BAX): A Positive Addition To The Medical World
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Baxter makes a variety of medical products across three divisions: drugs and vaccines, dialysis equipment, and IV supplies. The 2011 performance likely will be led by continued growth in IV therapies, global injectables and anesthesia products, and renal care (including revenue growth in its peritoneal dialysis product). Closed Slightly Down EPS to $4.15-$4.25 (vs. First [...]
Intel Has Slight Issue With Support Chip: $300 Million In Revenue Lost
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011While it’s good that Intel managed to catch the issue early, and only chipsets manufactured after January 9th are flawed, this is still some 8 million Sandy Bridge chipsets destined for 500 different personal computer OEMs. If you happen to have a computer with a new Sandy Bridge chipset, there’s no need to panic. You’ll [...]
Galaxy Tab Falls Behind In Sales: Not All That Special
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Samsung will also unveil Galaxy Tab successor dubbed as Galaxy Tab 2. There were no specific details available on the same but we wish to see AMOLED display on the same. It should run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Samsung used Galaxy S hardware into Galaxy Tab and looking at it, we can assume [...]
New Apple Store App For iPhone Makes Shopping A Snap
Sunday, January 30th, 2011The Apple Retail Store is the best place to test-drive and explore Apple products because it’s the one place you can find everything Apple — including some of the world’s most knowledgeable Apple people. Our Specialists help you get to know our products and answer your questions. Our iPhone experts will help you with fast [...]
Apple (NYSE:AAPL) Leads Platform Player Market
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Apple is expected to report a 50% rise in quarterly revenue thanks to strong sales of the iPhone and iPad over the holiday season, with analysts expecting profits of $5.40 a share on sales of $24.4 billion. Still, the focus of the company’s earnings call will be Jobs’ health. Forbes’ Eric Savitz expects Apple’s shares [...]