Apple’s next-generation iPad could add a USB port, according to reports. That adds to other hardware rumors surrounding the best-selling tablet. – Rumors surrounding Apples next-generation iPad
continue, with the newest ones suggesting the device yet to be officially
unveiled will feature a USB port.
“Talked with a colleague while working with some
ODM [original design manufacturer] vendors connected with Apple,” Eldar
Murtazin, editor-i…
The iPad is expected to lead the tablet market for some time, says a new report, which also notes that Apples success is due to a culmination of different factors. –
The success of the Apple iPad is built on more than its (slick, lovely)
hardware, which portends a long road ahead for Apple competitors racing to
bring media tablets to market, according to a Dec. 28 report from
DisplaySearch.
The report comes as several new tablets are expected at the 2011 …
Apple iPad shipments could top out at 65 million in 2011, according to an estimate from DigiTimes, but an analyst is warning of potential dangers for Apple ahead. – Apple iPad panel shipments will top 65 million units in
2011, estimates DigiTimes. However, another analyst suggests that the iPads
continuing success could start to affect the market for other Apple products,
notably the Mac and iPhone.
DigiTimes 65-million-units figure comes from the combin…
Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan’s Singapore-listed unit GuocoLand Ltd (GUOC.SI) may float two real estate investment trusts (REITs) with total assets of up to US$8 billion ($10.4 billion) over the next 3-5 years, The Business Times reported today.
The assets would include one office and the other retail REIT-holding assets in Singapore, China, Malaysia and possibly Vietnam, the newspaper said.
Apple is facing a pair of lawsuits that claimed the company allowed advertisers to access the personal information of iPhone and iPad owners. – A seemingly indiscreet Apple is facing a pair of
lawsuits that claim the company allowed advertisers to access the personal
information of iPhone and iPad owners without their consent, according to a
publish report. These legal actions could also pave the way for more complaints
against other sm…
The updated iPads will support a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA capabilities, according to the report – Apple is planning to release three different versions of its update to the popular iPad tablet, according to
Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes. The claims come on the heels
of a report published earlier this week in the publication, which
quoted unnamed Apple iPhone suppliers saying Apple …
Samsung is planning to debut its Apple iPod contender, the Galaxy Player, at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, according to a Samsung Hub posting. – Samsung, apparently not content to challenge the iPad with
the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the iPhone with its Galaxy S line of smartphones,
will use Januarys Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to unveil yet another
Apple competitior: the Galaxy Player, a touchscreen multimedia device meant to
tak…
An official of the Kosovo Albanian government in PriÅ¡tina says the Kosovo human organ trafficking report has had a negative impact. Deputy Foreign Minister in the Thaci government Vlora Citaku stated Tuesday that the report by Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe (CoE) Dick Marty “tarnished Kosovo’s image jeopardizing the process of its further recognition”.
The Council of Europe investigator’s report on the Kosovo organ trafficking case used data provided by the Serbian BIA, says a newspaper. Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes today that it had access to a report from 2003 where the Serbian intelligence agency describes a terrorist Albanian network.
There were six days in the 2010 season that surpassed $1 billion in sales, according to the MasterCard Advisors’ report. – MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, a macroeconomic report tracking
national retail and services sales, provided summary results for
e-commerce sales over the full 2010 holiday shopping season. During the
period Oct. 31 to Dec. 24, U.S. consumers spent an estimated
$36.4 billion, a 15.4 percent y…
News Analysis: The FCCs 194-page Report and Order discloses slightly different neutrality rules for wired and wireless service providers. The newly published rules seem sure to draw multiple legal challenges. – A Federal Communications Commission published
report on its network neutrality order shows it was true to its word
that it would codify and require open Internet access for all wired
Internet providers. The FCCs Report and Order 10-201 also revealed
that wireless providers will get slightly loos…
Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SGXL.SI) will try to push through its proposed US$7.8 billion ($10.1 billion) acquisition of Australian stock exchange ASX (ASX.AX) despite strong opposition in Australia, SGX CEO Magnus Bocker said in an interview with the Straits Times newspaper today.
“All the reactions that I have seen so far, I am not really surprised by,” Bocker told the Singapore paper.
In its monthly report to Congress, the Veteran Affairs Department listed a Yahoo calendar containing patient data among a number of data security lapses it dealt with. – The Veteran Affairs Department ordered doctors to
immediately stop using a Yahoo Calendar Application to store confidential data.
Notifications of a possible security breach have been sent to nearly 900
affected patients, according to VAs monthly
report to Congress on Dec. 22.
The report called…
Apple iPhone suppliers claim the company has increased its target iPhone 4 shipment numbers for Q1 2011. – With sales of the fourth generation of its popular iPhone smartphone
still going strong, computer maker Apple is taking steps to ensure supply meets
demand. The company raised its shipment goal for the first quarter of 2011 to
around 20 million iPhones, the technology blog DigiTimes reported.
T…
Logitech has called for a freeze on Google TV components from Gigabyte Technology, marking the second instance where Google requested hardware delays so it can refresh the software. – Logitech has told Taiwan’s Gigabyte Technology to freeze shipments
of the Logitech Revue companion boxes that power Google TV from December through
January, according to Digitimes.
The publication said Logitech made the request to allow Google to finish upgrading the Android-based
Google TV soft…
Acting Kosovo President Jakup Krasniqi urged Friday European institutions to reject the report by Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty.
Krasniqi described Marty’s accusations regarding human organ trafficking in Kosovo as an attempt at concealing Kosovo victims.
Skype’s CEO issued a statement offering refunds for customers affected by the company’s massive service outage. – Facing the wrath of its customer base following a massive service
outage earlier this week, voice over IP provider
Skype said it would issue refunds to those unable to make calls during
the 30-hour shutdown. Skype CEO Tony Bates issued a statement on the
companys blog, apologizing for the servic…
An IBM research report predicts vastly more powerful batteries and holographic cell phones are in our future. – Technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) issued a list of predictions of future technologies culled from a survey of 3,000 IBM scientists, Bloomberg reported, pronouncing cities heated by servers, holographic cell phones and advanced city traffic monitoring as among the prevalent techn…
Russia has called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to consider the Marty report on human organ trafficking in Kosovo “most seriously”. This is according to Alexei Sazonov, deputy of an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 beta Web browser beat the competition on malware protection, an NSS Labs report finds. – A malware security report by NSS Labs found Windows Internet
Explorer 9 beta caught an “exceptional” 99 percent of the live
threats, leading the non-IE pack by 80 percent. Mozilla Firefox 3.6
caught 19 percent of the live threats, down 10 percent from the NSS
Labs test conducted in the first qua…
