Apple iPhone 4S with its 800MHz processor was pitted against the Samsung Galaxy S II with 1.5GHz looking heavily under-powered, yet came out all guns blazing in this browser speed test and load times comparison, as demoed by SlashGear. …from initial results the iPhone 4S performs quite well, I’m sure everyone expected that as the [ Read More ]
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Just when things were getting better for RIM, their luck runs out. BlackBerry services are down again for some users in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina and don't look like coming back up for at least another few hours. RIM issued the following statement: Media statement - October 11 Some [ Read More ]
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has said that all the services pertaining to BlackBerry, which were down since yesterday in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) owing to a technical glitch, are back again and running as usual. The widespread service outages were faced by BlackBerry users all over the world, including here in [ Read More ]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent out an internal mail to his team, informing them about Apple's plans of holding a celebration of their inspiration founder's life, next Wednesday on October 19 at 10am Pacific Time. The event will take place in the outdoor amphitheater of Apple’s Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. Team, Like many of [ Read More ]
Surprise, surprise! Apple has announced that over a million people have already pre-ordered the new iPhone 4S, which they unveiled just prior to the death of the mastermind of the said device - Steve Jobs. Jobs has engineered many successful products and the 4S was no different. But despite the sad demise of the iconic [ Read More ]
Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen and Walt Mossberg talk to Charlie Rose on Steve Jobs’ legacy, his hatred for travelling (he never traveled to China!) and more. Via Bloomberg
With the influx of many bigger smartphones in the market, like the Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Nexus S, HTC HD7, etc, several analysts and consumers alike have called for Apple to make an iPhone bigger than the current 3.5 inch dimension it sports in order to keep up with the competition. But Apple have refrained [ Read More ]
We know this is perhaps not the best time to share something like this, making fun of Apple - who have lost one of their most important and influential members, Steve Jobs but hey, its all in good fun and as the maker says: This video is in no way meant to make fun of [ Read More ]
They may be arch rivals to Apple but they do recognize the moment: both Google and Samsung have announced that there will be no goodies at Unpacked next week following the sad demise of Steve Jobs. Here's their joint statement: Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that [ Read More ]
For those of you who were caught up by a gloomy Thursday, here's a reminder that the new iPhone 4S is available to be booked from today, 3:01am ET onwards. And for the first time, people in the U.S will have up to 3 carriers to choose from to get an iPhone -- AT&T, Verizon [ Read More ]
Steve Jobs' exclusive biography has been preponed by almost a month and is now scheduled to release later this month on October 24, owing to the sudden death of the iconic CEO. The death, though, wasn't too sudden for Steve Jobs himself and biographer Walter Isaacson. They both knew he was dying. The WSJ reports According to a [ Read More ]
The whole world is crying and moaning a visionary leader's death so it comes as no surprise that Steve Jobs' close friend Steve Wozniak shreds a tear or two remembering his old pal. Here's his interview for The Associated Press this morning:
