China Mobile to launch eight Ophones from Motorola next year!
China Mobile has announced that they are planning to launch as many as eight Ophones next year in the domestic market.
These phones would be manufactured by US based smartphone maker Motorola.
China Mobile Ophone platform is based on Google Android. It has been developed [...]
Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland now on Google Street View
Google Maps team has announced that they have launched Street View feature in a couple of new countries.
These new locations are: Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Google has also now made available more special interest regions on the Street View service including:
Thunderhill Raceway Park
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Also added [...]
Google using goats to clear weeds at their campus
US based search engine giant Google has revealed that they are using services of goats from California Grazing to clean up weeds at their Mountain View headquarters.
The aim is to keep the grounds clean and prevent any risks of fire.
Google said that they are using [...]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for faster internet access in libraries
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $6.9 million to provide faster internet access in public libraries.
These funds would be used to upgrade the systems in seven states in USA.
These states are: Arkansas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas and Virginia.
The money has been provided [...]
Blackberry, Treo has a higher failure rate compared to Apple iPhone!
California-based SquareTrade has reported in a study that Research in Motion’s Blackberry smartphones are more likely to fail compared to Apple iPhone during the first year of ownership.
The company specializes in extended warranties for electronics and appliances.
The report took into consideration 15,000 new [...]
BMW Mini E coming to California, New Jersey and New York
BMW has announced that they would conduct real life testing of their Mini E model in California, New Jersey and New York.
The company would lease out 500 completely electric Minis in these cities.
BMW said: “By introducing the Mini E, the BMW Group is [...]
Steve Jobs to kick off Apple WWDC next month
Apple has now confirmed that their CEO Steve Jobs would be kicking off the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled for next month in San Francisco, California.
This would be the first time that the conference would have sessions to code applications for a non [...]
Hackers tried stealing information from computers of California University
How much can we trust computers? Especially the ones connected to the Internet… this question might arise again after the latest news of hacking of computers in the California University. The incident took place three weeks ago when hackers got into the servers and got access to [...]
Apple Computer wins court battle against Macintosh rumor Web sites
In a ruling that might affect more people than just the defendants, a California judge on Friday ruled against the three independent online reporters who leaked information about the upcoming Apple products on their website. This might lead to Apple forcing the three news sources to [...]
