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Acer’s direction in 2012
During the celebrations for the new Year Of the Dragon in China, Acer’s chairman, JT Wang, announced the direction for the company over the coming 12 months. Acer does not intend to sit back in 2012 – they will seek to increase market share in the ultrabook, tablet, notebook and smartphone sectors. Netbooks will be [...]
Apple Tech Support Getting Sloppy
Apple Care, customers service and tech support in general was always legendary. Lately, not so much. According to Vocalabs the numbers were declining. Customers complain about long waiting times, and auto responses. Three year study shows that Apple customers service is sinking to the levels of their competitors’. Customers’ satisfaction levels fell to 53% from [...]
Facebook Goes Public
The long awaited Facebook initial public offering (IPO) arrived at the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, raising $5bn. For anyone not au fait with the inner workings of the western capitalism, here’s a choice quote from the good chaps at Wikipedia explaining: When a company lists its securities on a public exchange, the money paid [...]
Year Of the Dragon Breaks Twitter’s Record
Twitter recently trumpeted its record of 25,088 tweets per second but this weekend’s Chinese New year celebrations led to 481,207 messages being sent via the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo in the first minute of the new Year of he Dragon, an average of 32,312 messages each second. Do News reports that the microblogging site’s [...]
Google – Disney joint promotion
Google is teaming up with Disney in a joint promotion. Google’s YouTube and Disney have announced a deal whereby each will spend $10-15 million on an original series. Disney will produce the short-length films, which will be distributed via a co-branded Disney channel, according to the New York Times. Reports suggest the channel will also [...]
America Overrun With Pirates
Research in the US looking at online copyright infringement found that 70% of 18 to 29-year-olds have illegally downloaded music, movies or TV shows. Yet two-thirds of these pirates pay for content as well. The figures are derived from research for a report named Copy Culture in the US and Germany, compiled by the same [...]
Intel Announces Record Profits
Santa-Clara-based chip-maker Intel has released figures for 2011, reporting record revenues of $54 billion, up from $43.6bn in 2010. That’s a pretty commendable 24% increase in profits. Net income climbed 13% to $12.9bn , some of which will hopefully go into research to bring you and me ever faster components. Intel’s results for Q4 were [...]
Bing Overtakes Yahoo In Search
According to tech research company ComScore, Microsoft’s Bing search engine overtook Yahoo Search in December, with 15.1% for Bing against Yahoo’s 14.5% of US searches. The news puts Microsoft in second place in search engine use behind Google, although Google is a long way ahead with 66% of the search market. In total, 15.1 percent [...]
Silicon Valley 2 In Las Vegas Itself
Every year hordes of techies based in Silicon Valley head to southern Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show CES, but now an initaitive by the CEO of Zappos wants to transform run-down downtown Las Vegas into its own Silicon ‘Strip’ to match the glamour and renown of the Vegas Strip of mega-casinos and clubs [...]
Most Popular Sites 2011
Google homepage is still more popular than Facebook, but only just. Market researcher Nielsen claims the search engine titan recorded 153 million unique visitors each month, with the social-networking giant in second place with 138 million. Yahoo landed the bronze with 130 million unique visitors per month, and Microsoft’s MSN/WindowsLive/Bing site came in fourth. Google’s [...]
