Apple  posted its results for the last quarter, Apple made a net profit of $8.8bn in the three months ending in June, up 21% from a year earlier but lower than forecasts by financial analysts. It is also the smallest increases in years for the April to June period. Apple will pay shareholders a dividend of $2.65 per share on 16 August. Apple has nearly doubled the iPad sales and sold 28 percent more [...]

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If reports are to be believed, Apple’s  next iPhone will drop the 30-pin wide dock connector used in its mobile devices  in favour of a smaller 19-pin connector port to enable the earphone to move to bottom from the top. This change is likely to annoy the Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods owners as it would not connect with the existing accessories such as speakers and chargers, this move could [...]

Amazon is opening a new Development centre in London with tens of developers, engineers, UX designers and graphic designers  who will be developing services and APIs for phones, computers, televisions and gaming consoles The offices will be located in an eight floor, 4,366 square metre area in Glasshouse Yard. The design and development teams from Amazon companies Pushbutton and Lovefilm will also [...]

If you had planned on buying a 16GB Nexus 7 but have not already, there is some bad news for you – It’s sold out.  Google is no longer taking orders for the £199 model.  The page for the 16GB version Google Play displays a “coming soon” message, Interested customers can register to be notified via email when the model becomes available once again.   Nexus 7 which is built by Asus  [...]

Sparrow, the popular thrid-party email app for MAC OS and iOS plus  a great Gmail solution for iPhone users has been acquired by Google. According to some reports, the price is said to be around US $25 million. “The Sparrow team has always put their users first by focusing on building a seamlessly simple and intuitive interface for their email client. We look forward to bringing them aboard [...]

Google and Microsoft have come out with their Financials for the past Quarter, Microsoft Corp.  announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. Operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share due to a huge $6.2 billion charge in its online services division relating to its failed 2007 acquisition of aQuantive. “We delivered [...]

If you are among the hundreds of Google Nexus 7 pre-order customers are still waiting for their tablets to arrive on their doorsteps and think that you are unlucky, you are wrong as some of the consumers, lucky enough to receive a Nexus 7 were dumbfounded when they began using the tablet only to find a number of manufacturing defects. XdaDevelopers and other online forums have numerous reports that [...]

October 26th, 2012 is the date for Windows 8 launch according to a post on the official Windows Team Blog.Microsoft had previously announced that an upgrade from Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will cost US $40 for a download. Windows 8 is one of the most anticipated and ambitious overhauls of Windows Operating System in years, most of the previous version of the OS variant including the Mobile [...]

58 percent of people in UK send text messages each day, that’s way ahead of 47 percent who prefer making phone calls according to a study by Ofcom, the Independent regulator for the UK communications industries. The change in communication is being driven by the growth of smartphones, and Ofcom found that more than one quarter of adults (27 per cent) and close to half of teenagers (47 per cent) [...]