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HP, NetApp Earnings: It’s Not How Much You Make, but How You Use It
Hewlett-Packard and NetApp both released their earnings reports and though results are moving in opposite directions for each respective company, things appear to be on the positive end for both tech firms. HP’s revenue was short of analysts’ estimates at $27.6 billion for its fiscal year Q2 2013, but its stocks went up 13 percent ...
HP Unveils Redesigned Laptops and a Bunch of New Desktops
“I don’t know what’s HP.” You’d probably think that this statement is from an Apple fanboi being all snobbish and insisting that they’re the only gadget brand in existence worth bothering about. But in actual fact, this very line was uttered by none other than HP’s CEO Meg Whitman. So is Whitman belittling her company? ...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Surpasses 10M Sales In One Month
Samsung proudly announced on its official blog that sales of the Galaxy S4 has surpassed the 10 million mark in less than a month after it was released in 60 countries last April 27. The Galaxy S4 sets a new record for the Galaxy line as its predecessor, the Galaxy SIII, wasn’t able to surpass ...
HTC’s Executive Exodus & Webbies Celebrate the GIF – SiliconANGLE News Roundup
In today’s NewsDesk news roundup: HTC is losing more execs; AMD loses more sales despite processor market growth; Google Plus redesign rolls out to mobile and mobile web; Intel appoints Mike Bell to head emerging technology efforts; Nineteen year old revolutionizes cost of driverless cars; NASA spearheads 3D printed food development; Amazon unveils design for ...
Has Xbox One Forgotten Its Roots? Hint: It’s Gaming.
Microsoft finally unveiled the Xbox One, an all powerful all-in-one living room entertainment system that you could talk to to control other gadgets in your home. Aside from being able to talk to it, Kinect also watches for hand gestures for easy navigation. It has Skype, and TV guide so you’re constantly connected as well ...
HTC’s Doomed. It’s Dying, Dead, No One Can Save It. Goodbye.
It’s no secret that the HTC ship is sinking, but the smartphone maker could be about to expire faster than we realized if the rate at which executives are abandoning ship is any indication of the company’s future. In the past three months Jason Gordon, HTC’s vice president of global communications, Rebecca Rowland, global retail ...
How To Use Google Search with Conversations
Google has quietly introduced “conversational search” to Google Search users using the Chrome browser. The feature was introduced during last week’s Google I/O, and though some claim it’s not really new since the feature already exists on Google’s mobile app, there are some noteworthy additions to the service. First off, the feature is not yet ...
Making Fun of Scalability : New Comic Strip Pays Homage to IT
Whoever said geeks have no sense of humor clearly hasn’t stumbled on the comic Not Invented Here. The site is all about the trials and tribulations of ITs, coders, developers but has been injected with humor. Software scalability is a confusing topic so here are some comics to lighten your day, enjoy! More comics can be ...
Amazon’s New Campus Sports A Greenhouse Effect
Look around and you’ll see structures sprouting up from the ground up wherever you go. All cities have their fair share of ugly concrete monstrosities – tall, lots of windows and generally just very boring, yet others look like something that an artist designed, or like something out of a sci-fi comic. But what do ...
Butterfly Labs’ Bitcoin Kerfuffle is “Classic” Startup Mistake
The long awaited Bitcoin miners from Butterfly Labs are finally shipping after 8 months of delay. The company offers four configurations: Jalapeno, which is a 5 GH/s Bitcoin Miner; “Little Single” a 25 GH/s Bitcoin Miner; “Single” a 50 GH/S Bitcoin Miner; and the Mini Rig which is a 1,500 GH/s Bitcoin Miner. The ASIC ...