Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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How Smart is Your TV? Connected Tubes Takeover

Global TV shipments have fallen by eight percent in the first quarter of 2012. For the first time in history, LCD TV shipments have slipped 3 percent year-over-year. According to research firm DisplaySearch’s latest Advanced Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, overall global shipments of TV in Q1 of 2012 declined eight percent year-over-year ...

The Best of Google Street Views

Google revealed three major changes that take place in the future Google Maps with the introduction of an offline mode for Android phones and tablets. In offline mode, you can download maps on the device in areas you want to use when traveling abroad, or when you know the area you’re headed to will have ...

Smartphone or Camera? Rise in Photo-Sharing Questions Our Mobile Purpose

JiWire, the location-based mobile media provider reaching the on-the-go audience, released its latest photo sharing report, which examines location based photo sharing engagement, the mobile devices and user usage trends. The recent survey in Q2 2012 found that location based photo sharing is on rise and driving the mobile trends, with 83 percent of the ...

Intel Eyes More Internet-Connected Devices

Intel Corp., arguably the largest chipmaker in the world, is considering creating an increasing number of internet connected device ecosystems, such as home entertainment, for major growth opportunities. The company’s chief financial officer, Stacy Smith, said as more devices become connected to the Internet, Intel plans to make a place in the field of home ...

Amazon, Microsoft Strengthen Video Streaming Services

Amazon’s catalog of online streaming videos keeps growing. Amazon has announced licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios to include hundreds of classic films and TV series for free streaming on its Prime Instant Video service. With the new addition of MGM, Prime Instant Video now offers more than 18,000 movies and TV episodes. The deal ...

The Car is the Next Connected Device – New App Market Emerges

We live in an ongoing technological revolution that helps us do our work efficiently, and provides a platform to move another step forward all the time. In the world of automobiles, there is also an evolution – smartphone apps for cars that provide new utilities to help us with our most common of tasks. The ...

Most Mobile Ads Want You to Download an App or Buy Something [Report]

Millennial Media has published its June scoreboard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART) report for 2012, detailing key advertising developments in device and manufacturer data, mobile advertising data, mobile developer trends and global tablet trends. The Q1 2012 report highlights mobile advertiser trends along with key global trends and campaign goals for brands and ...

Facebook, Mobile Push Online Ads as Sector Achieves Best Quarter Ever

The world saw Internet advertising for Q1 2012 reach $8.4 billion, according to the biannual report from  the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).  For the first time, Internet advertising revenue reached its biggest number ever during a single quarter. The data collected by IAB and the New Media Group of PwC U.S. shows that ad revenues ...

Bloom Energy’s Latest Funding Round Spurs Clean Tech Data Centers

Sunnyvale, California based fuel cell maker, Bloom Energy, has raised another $150 million venture capital investment – making the clean tech firm one of the valued pure-play companies in the market. According to DowJones VentureWire, the Series G round is being marketed by Advanced Equities. Should the capital come in, Bloom Energy will have raised ...

Cisco’s New Platform Prepares for the Internet of Things

With the expectation of increased mobile Internet traffic worldwide, going up by nearly 18 times between 2011 and 2016, Cisco announced the basis for a new generation of mobile Internet networks – the Cisco ASR 5500 platform. The ASR 5500 platform, apparently the first elastic packet core solution capable of integrating signaling, data, in-line services, ...