According to smartphone insurance site MobileInsurance.co.uk, 23 percent of all iPhones have cracked or smashed screens. Owners were asked whether their display is currently cracked, smashed or broken. Most of the owners spent a long time with the broken screen, with the average length being 6 months. 30 percent said they were not insured, 30 […]
Apple co-founder Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak had some words for his former company. Speaking to a German publication, the Woz admitted that the company has fallen somewhat behind in its bid to remain the top smartphone maker in the world. I am proud that we have such loyal fans. But this loyalty is not given, the […]
German downloads 25 billionth song. The song itself was “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch. Phillip Lüpke, the downloader from Germany, will be rewarded a $10,000 iTunes gift card. “We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past 10 years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in […]
Qualcomm CMO Anand Chandrasekher has bashed rival chipmaker Nvidia’s Tegra processors. Tegra 3 quad-core processors power most of 2012’s most popular Android tablets. The exec says he believes Qualcomm’s own upcoming 600 and 800 processors will blow the Tegra series out of the water, and dominate the market. On the smartphone side, the Qualcomm Snapdragon […]
Dell has announced this week that they have updated their popular XPS 13 ultrabook line to include new models with full 1080p displays. The original XPS 13 sold for $1000 and included a 720p display, a i5 processor, 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. The new, updated model will sell for $1400 and include an […]
YouTube investment would value Vevo at $50 million. If the negotiations are successful, Google will own around 10 percent of the music video service. The deal then, would value Vevo somewhere near half a billion dollars, according to sources cited by Bloomberg, who remain anonymous as the negotiations are not public. Vevo was formed by […]
Microsoft, Symantec and U.S. marshals take down C&C servers. Technicians and U.S federal marshals served warrants at data centers in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, on Wednesday, taking aim at servers that send commands to zombies that were zapped into the Bamital botnet. They seized control of one server at the New Jersey location, […]
USITC judge sets date for final ruling. In October 2012, the International Trade Commission (ITC) said Apple infringed on four Samsung patents in several smartphones, but that decision is being reviewed following petitions by both companies. Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender entered a scheduling order setting Aug 1, as a target final decision date, […]