Siri may not be a name that is instantly recognizable among web users, but if the trend continues with its performance on Apple’s iPhone 4S, it could very well shake things up with search giants like Google. Siri is important because according to a report released by the New York Times, about 25% of the [...]
February 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
IE6 may be nearly dead, but its offspring IE9 is growing fast. According to Microsoft, the latest incarnation of the browser is the fastest growing browser among Windows 7 users and amount for 36.2% of browser use on the platform. In fact, IE9 is the most used browser on all Windows 7 computers and Microsoft [...]
February 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Right now all people seem to be thinking about is the impending Facebook IPO, but amidst all this euphoria, some people are still digging below Facebook’s surface—trying to crunch the numbers and decipher what makes this company tick. Online ink cartridge company Cartridge Save recently conducted a survey to establish just how much content is [...]
February 13th, 2012 by Anthony West
Most of the talk right now may be about Dropbox and perhaps the iCloud, but before these players came on the scene, Amazon pioneered Cloud storage. And from the looks of things, the service formally known as Amazon S3 is still a force to be reckoned with. The company released a statement on its year-on-year [...]
February 13th, 2012 by Anthony West
The internet has broken down a lot of cultural barriers, but it has also broken down a lot technical barriers too. Gone are the days when only people who had had some exposure to coding wanted to get their hands dirty; today, everyone is doing it. And they are doing it in large part because [...]
February 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Facebook users take for granted just how much of their personal data is surrendered when they sign up to the site and liberally share their lives on the popular social networking platform. But for the interested user, the numbers are here. According to the S-1 filing made by Facebook in anticipation of its IPO, a [...]
February 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
The last thing I suppose anyone will accuse VeriSign executives for is hubris; at least not where its management of the .Com registry is concerned. The company had earnings call opportunities since October, but only now are we getting a sense of what VeriSign has been able to do with the com registry and the [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple is doing so well that pretty much every division seems to be enjoying the fruits of a solid harvest. On receipt of news that Apple had its best quarter ever, the markets responded in kind, sending the stock north of the $450 mark. There was also good news regarding one of the latest additions [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
The failed acquisition of T-Mobile might have cost AT&T a tidy sum but that hasn’t stopped the company from posting stellar numbers for the 2011. The company released its data and Wi-Fi connection rates for 2011 and managed to score big in almost every department. Wi-Fi Network traffic was up tripled against figures for 2010, [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
A company can’t offer millions in compensation to its executives unless it has solid numbers underneath it to back that offer up, and Apple right now is living up to that principle. The company just reported record net profits for Q4 2012 and marks the 14th consecutive quarter of profits with $13.6 billion. This performance [...]
February 3rd, 2012 by Anthony West
The days of IBM’s dominance in the PC and software market may be out the public consciousness, but that hasn’t stopped the company from racking up big-figure revenues—even in a shrinking economy. The company released its Q4 and fiscal year 2011 earnings figures with many analysts expressing surprise at the growth that IBM has managed [...]
February 2nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft may update windows every 18 months or so but years of stability issues means that many businesses still use one of the most reliable versions ever—Windows XP. According to research conducted by Forrester Research back in March 2011, a whopping 60% of corporate desktops are still running Windows XP, while another research conducted by [...]
January 31st, 2012 by Anthony West
The internet had its beginnings in the US Military, so one cannot say it had humble beginnings. This rather ambitious start has sort of followed the net to this day and the ubiquity of its use is a testament to this. A small study conducted by traffic and analytics website Pingdom found that today, over [...]
January 30th, 2012 by Anthony West
The tablet PC has now found definition through one gadget—the iPad. And this almost cult-like status of the iPad fuels a lot of speculation on Wall Street; analysts it seems are carving out whole niches on the back of predicting the number of iPads that are sold each year. Mind you, they all take their [...]
January 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
How do hackers make off with data from 24 million people on a retail website without leaving with payment data is beyond me, but according to Zappos, this is precisely what happened. The popular online retailer was quick to admit the hack, but news that although 24 million customers were affected, no payment data was [...]
January 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
The Apple company is well known and extremely successful not only around the country but around the world too. They have changed the way people use technology and communicate. From their notebook and laptop computers and the popular iPods to the new and unique iPad and the iPhone, their products are used by people all [...]
January 23rd, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Experts in the computing industry have been quietly mumbling about the potential for tablets to eventually kill off the Desktop PC and ultimately reduce the use of laptops. That mumble has now become a roar, confirmed by a recent polling of 1155 American adults. The polling was part of a study to gauge the view [...]
January 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Believe it or not, some people are still paying for their dial-up subscription they got with AOL ages ago. Well, sort of. You see, a recent article about a one Traci Casale revealed that 75% of AOL’s dial-up customers are still paying to receive email via the original subscription plan they received when AOL was [...]
January 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
