Category Archives: Industry

iPhone Nano To Hit Chinese Market

It has been rumoured that Apple are going to release the new iPhone nano in China in the near future. The nano will be a revised, smaller edition of Apple’s touchscreen iPhone.

Apple Shares Drop After Jobs’ Leave of Absense

Apple’s shares dropped by 5.7 this morning after after CEO Steve Jobs Leave of Absense following a bout of illness. Apple’s investors have clearly taken the news very seriously as the 5.7 drop suggests.

iTunes Suffering From Pirates Invasion

iPhone developers are looking at putting advertising on their games due to them finding most of the games are being stolen by pirates who aren’t paying for the download. James Bossert was happy when he noticed that his Whack ‘em All iPhone game had 400 new users in one day last week. However he was read more »

Dell Pays Out $3.85 million over Lawsuit

Dell has agreed to fork over $3.85 million over claims that Tinman Michael Dell lied to buyers about his financing and service offers to PC buyers in order to prevent lawyers from 46 states in the US taking him to court. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that an “epidemic-like wave of complaints” about Dell’s read more »

Windows 7 Available to Everyone

Windows latest release – Windows 7 – will now be available to everyone after a huge increase in demand crashed the Microsoft website on 9 January (the original release date). In response, the company has lifted a planned limit on the number of copies of the Windows 7 Beta available for download. Microsoft delayed the read more »

Carbon Footprint huge for Googling

It has been estimated that two Google searches is equal to boiling a kettle in terms of carbon footprints.

Skype Surge in Recession

In today’s economic downturn, more and more peolpe appear to be turning to the voice IP outfit Skype as it sees a surge in new users.

The Beginning of the End for Desktop PCs?

According to the research firm iSupply, the shipment of notebooks has exceeded the desktop sales in the third quarter of the year for the first time. This could signal the end of the desktop PC as we know it and be the start of a new era in which the laptop dominates.

IBM to consider scaled down power line broadband

Periodically, the idea of putting broadband through the power lines is explored and in the past dies out, due to a number of reasons, after considerable enthusiasm.

Light-weight carbon fibre next on the agenda for Air?

Apple is said to be considering new ways in which to reduce the weight of the MacBook Air.