Apple’s iPad mini, which was launched last week, has been ripped apart by an online site to determine the real cost of the gadget. The site, IH, said that the Wi-Fi 16GB base model costs roughly 117 pounds for Apple to build, and it sells them for 269 dollars each. The 32GB and 64GB models […]
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Apple’s much-awaited iPhone 5could hit the 10 million sales mark in its first week, an analyst has predicted. Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 5 at an event on September 12. Some reports suggest that the new phone will reportedly go on sale on Friday, September 21. With that date […]
Twitter is outpacing Facebook in US mobile advertising revenue this year, according to a survey released Thursday showing a market dominated by Google. The report by the research firm eMarketer said Facebook, which just rolled out mobile ads for the first time this year, will likely overtake Twitter by 2013 but will not come close […]
Startup companies building applications usingsocial-media tools to pinpoint the right candidate for a job are prompting a wave of change in corporate hiring. With their ability to reach out to people who are not even scouting for a job, these technology-enabled startups look set to steal a lead over internet job portals that feature only […]
Facebook has reportedly been sued by a Chinese technology firm that claims the social networking giant has stolen its Timeline feature. Facebook recently made it mandatory for people to use Timeline, the new-look profile, which allows people to tell the story of their lives on a single page. Cubic Network, a four year-old Chinese technology […]
A new 7,800 km undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia linking Japan, Malaysia,Singapore and the Philippines which could aid in financial trade. The Submarine-cable Express (ASE) transfers data via an optical fibre system at 40 gigabits per second, and is three milliseconds faster than any other cable between Singapore and Tokyo, […]
Facebook said this week that it has fixed a glitch that allowed links to deleted photos to stay live long after a user thought they’d been banished from the site. Photos that users have deleted are quickly removed from Facebook profiles and newsfeeds, but if you happened to have a link to the deleted pic, […]
The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Asterisk 11.0.0 (the first Long Term Support release since 1.8). This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the Asterisk 11 testing process. Please report any issues found to the […]
The UN telecoms agency has invited the world’s more than 2 billion Internet users to join a debate about the future of the Internet. The Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union’s announcement today follows criticism from civil society groups who say preparations for an upcoming global conference have been shrouded in secrecy. The World Conference on […]