iPad, the latest from Apple
Apple Inc.’s chief executive Steve Jobs, on Wednesday unveiled the latest and the most hyped gadget from Apple, iPad!
iPad, a touchscreen tablet computer is the latest buzz from the highly innovative company which has shaped up many trend setting products in the two and a half decades.
After innovations like the Macintosh computers, iPod, itunes, iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone, The App store, the Cupertino, California based company has now come up with the latest iPad, half inch thin, the slimmest tablet with 9.7 inch diagonal screen and 1024×768 display resolution.
The device shall have 16 to 64 GB flash storage, built in speaker and microphones, accelerometer and compass. It offers 10 hours battery with one month standby.
Google, Apple in high-tech battle
The relationship between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. is now transforming into a power struggle as both the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide with each other!
As both giants, Google and Apple are in a race to tap the mobile market, realizing it as key to success and sales, the high-powered phones for web-surfing has become the centre point of their brewing battle.
And not only this, the rivalry is fast spilling into other products, including web browsers, computer operating systems and digital music amongst others.
With Google announcing its plans on Tuesday to sell its own cell phone, the rivalry has been refueled.
Google, with its newly launched phone called Nexus One, is aiming to woo the audience providing them an advanced phone than the iPhone and Blackberry.
Free local TV soon on cell phones
With the technology advancing by every split second, very soon, the prospect of watching live, local TV shows on mobile phones and other portable devices shall also be fulfilled.
At the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, the manufacturers this week are showing off gadgets that can receive a new type of digital TV transmissions.
Dubbed as “Mobile DT” gadgets, these will be available this spring for consumers in the Washington, D.C. area for trial. The device includes a cell phone made by Samsung Electronics Co. and a Dell Inc. laptop.
In addition, there is Tivit, a device about the size of a deck of cards that receives a TV signal and further rebroadcasts it over Wi-Fi enabling it to be received by an iPhone or BlackBerry.
Google launches Nexus One phone
As per the speculations, internet search giant, Google Inc, revealed its very own smart phone on Wednesday. With this, the internet giant is aiming to boost its position in the emerging mobile Internet market by exerting greater control over the new generation of Web-surfing devices.
This smartphone, dubbed as Nexus One, will be sold directly to consumers.
The sleek touchscreen phone is Google’s boldest venture outside its traditional Internet business. This will also be the first time that an 11-year-old company will sell a consumer electronics device bearing its well-known brand.
However, despite a positive response to Google’s new phone, analysts say the phone is not as revolutionary in design as Apple Inc’s iPhone was at its time. Despite various favorable reviews from across the globe, experts also noted that the phone doesn’t have any major revolutionary features different from others in the market that run Google’s Android software.
The Nexus One ships immediately and exclusively from Google’s online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Apple to unveil tablet in Jan
According to the reports published in The Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc is all set to announce its very own new tablet device later this month.
This report comes amidst building speculation about what could be the company’s revolutionary new launch since the hyped iPhone.
Citing people close to the company, the report stated that Apple Inc. is planning to ship a multimedia tablet with a 10-to-11 inch touchscreen in March.
Although media and technology experts have been speculating for long on this breakthrough launch from Apple in early 2010, the company never officially confirmed this.
This launch is expected n the Jan 27th, at an event in San Francisco. Tech experts expect the tablet to be priced at between $500 and $1,000.
Holiday cell phone shopping up threefold: eBay
According to the figures release from eBay, in this holiday season, more and more shoppers have used their cell phones to make purchases than in past years.
The largest online marketplace operator announced on Monday that people used cell phones to buy 1.5 million products in the past several weeks of the ongoing holiday season. This figure is three times the figures obtained last year.
eBay also said that the holiday mobile purchases included a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette that was sold for USD 75,000 and a 23-foot boat that sold for USD 19,108. Combining both the mobile and the traditional online purchases, eBay users bought more than 500,000 Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters.
eBay said that about 6 million people have eBay’s applications on iPhones and people use their mobile application to visit its site more than 2 million times each day.
AT&T suspends online sales of iPhones in NYC
For unspecified reasons, AT&T has stopped selling iPhones to the New York customers from its Web site.
The company failed to explain the reasons behind the unprecedented suspension, which started a few days ago. The company only mentioned on Monday that, it periodically “modifies” its distribution channels.
On AT&T Inc.’s Web site, the New York customers, identified by their New York City ZIP codes, are told, “Please shop for another phone.”
AT&T also acknowledged that its data network has been overburdened with iPhone users in New York and San Francisco.
The iPhone, however, are still available in New York retail stores and from Apple Inc.’s Web site.
Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
In a statement released on Saturday by the internet retail giant, amazon.com, the company saw the sales of electronic books rising much sharper than the hard-copy books this Christmas.
As published in the statement released, Amazon said, “On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
The statement also revealed that the company’s own e-book reader, the Kindle, “has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history.”
The Amazon e-books can also be read on Apple iPnone and iPod Touch devices. It’s Kindle online store boasts a library of 390,000 digitized books.
According to estimates in October, Kindle has a nearly 60 per cent share of the US market followed by Sony Reader with 35 per cent.
Another close competitor is Nook, a new device by the US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble.
Bing app for iPhones hits App Store
Microsoft has revealed that a Bing application for Apple’s hyped iPhone has hit the virtual shelves of its longtime rival’s online App Store.
At a launch celebration sin San Francisco, Bing for Mobile product manager Justin Jed remarked, “We like everybody and the key thing is what platforms and experiences users want and how to meet their needs.”
This free f cost application from the world’s leading software giant, Microsoft, allows the iPhone users tap on an icon to search the Internet using Microsoft’s newly launched Bing technology.
Earlier, the versions of mobile Bing software for the Blackberry devices, manufactured by the Canada-based Research In Motion, and smart phones based on Microsoft’s windows Software were shipped about a week ago.
“We think mobile Web and mobile services are a huge behavioral experience that customers are going after. If users want to interact with the Internet on their mobile, we are going to be there to hang out with them,” Jed added.
Apple’s iPhone set to make splash in South Korea
Apple Inc.’s iPhone has reached South Korea! And much before the aril, the phone has already created a lot of buzz around the market.
Making an estimate from the number of pre-orders booked so far, starting November 22nd, Apple Inc.’s hit communications device appears set to woo a large number of consumers in south Korea, known as the home to some of the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone users.
In the five days of advance booking so far, KT Corp., the local mobile carrier which has contracted with Apple to sell service plans for the phone, has reportedly received 53,000 advance orders. The phone is set to be launched officially on Saturday, 28th!
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