No upgrade to HTC HD2 to Windows Phone 7 series

Posted by Ria Viente on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010

Confirmation has been made the HTC HD2 smartphone will not be upgraded to Windows Phone series which will be launched at the end of the year.
According to Engadget, the HD2 is not ”compliant with the Windows Phone 7 Series hardware specifications.” HTC HD2 is a 4.3 inches multi-touch which could have been better with Windows [...]


Pull out of Google in China is the country’s lost

Posted by Ria Viente on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010

There is a possibility of Google pull out in China after the country questioned the censorship of the site. What will be affected on the pull out of Google.cn is advertising support for Chinese companies to online entertainment.
Chinese web surfers are blocked from accessing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and major blog-hosting services abroad. Google pull out [...]


Apple gives its chief operating officer $5 million bonus

Posted by Ria Viente on Tuesday, 16 March, 2010

Apple Inc. is giving $5 million to its chief operating officer for doing an outstanding job running the company, during the medical leave of CEO Steve Jobs.
The 49-year old Timothy Cook will also receive 75, 000 restricted stocks units. The ownership of the share will start in 2011 and 2012, Apple declared in a regulatory [...]


Apple iPad store online went down early Friday

Posted by Ria Viente on Sunday, 14 March, 2010

The Apple iPad store online went down for several hours last Friday as the site was updated to accommodate the iPad pre-order rash.
Ipad is advertising for an Apple iPad pre-order. Apple is selling its new products from $499.00 for 16-gigabyte Wifi-capable iPad, and $929.00 for a 64-gigabyte 3G and Wi-Fi capable iPad. The release of [...]


Google will close its Chinese search engine

Posted by Ria Viente on Sunday, 14 March, 2010

Google is 99.99 percent certain on its plan to close its Chinese search engine. The decision was made after Chinese authorities questioned its censorship.
Li Yizhong, China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, sent Google a warning saying that foreign companies could not step on the country’s laws.
The shutdown according to Chinese officials is the consequence [...]


New assault of freedom-Obama will ban sport fishing

Posted by Ria Viente on Friday, 12 March, 2010

The Obama administration endorsed a ban on international trade to fish for bluefin tuna. The endorsement was done, Wednesday.
The bluefin tuna is considered endangered specie. Its population decreased 70% between 1957 and 2007, and by more than 60 percent in the last ten years. Stocks in the Western Atlantic, including the United States, have stabilized [...]


Sony releases Play Station Move Controller

Posted by Ria Viente on Friday, 12 March, 2010

Sony Computer Entertainment revealed the much awaited Motion controller for PlayStation 3 console with the brand name – PlayStation Move. The information was released on a Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
New PlayStation Move controller is like wand which is similar to WII’s Nunchuk, but with a colored sphere on the top.
Sony will [...]


Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales

Posted by Ria Viente on Friday, 12 March, 2010

In a victory for the concept album, Britain’s High Court has ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band’s original album.
The group filed a case against the record agency for prohibiting its contract from selling their album “unbundled” from their original [...]


Cisco’s Epic Announcement That Will “Change The Internet Forever

Posted by Mandeep Kaur on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010

Cisco announced on Tuesday, that its next generation Internet router will be CRS-3 for the world’s largest internet service providers.
It looks like an upgrade of teh exisiting “core” router ,CSR-1, which was introduced in 2004. It also said “ it would forever change the internet”.
The new router provides 12 times the traffic capacity than its [...]


Microsoft finalized the launch of technology guarantee in 2010

Posted by Ria Viente on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

Microsoft and its qualified retailers will offer the Microsoft Office 2010 technology guarantee. The software will be available from March 11 to March 14, 2010.
Microsoft Office 2010 technology guarantee allows eligible consumers to download Office 2010 at no additional cost.
Who will be eligible are consumers who purchased and activated Office 2007, or purchased a new [...]