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Motorola Reveals Two New Xoom 2 Tablets, Leverages Android OS
After the successful launch of the initial Xoom tablet last year, Motorola is coming up with its next set of Xoom tablets, just as the holiday season approaches. The company is launching two Android based tablets today, which are for users in United Kingdom and Ireland. While the first one is the conventional 10-inch Xoom ...
Nokia Gets New Chipset Supplier, Faces Union Strike
Looks like ST-Ericsson will be supplying its technology in the form of chipsets to Nokia, which will enable the cellphone vendor to offer cheaper Windows mobiles. As soon as the news came out, shares of both STMicro and Ericsson went up by 4 percent and 3 percent respectively. “ST-Ericsson have been clear about their intention to ...
Female CEOs on the Rise, Reviving Tech’s Look at the Glass Ceiling
It seems that females are finally appearing in the front row in the corporate landscape, with IBM’s first female CEO reviving an industry’s look at the glass ceiling. The computer giant has been running as a male-dominated company till now, but the tide is changing. IBM has appointed Virginia Rometty has its new Chief Executive ...
IBM’s Watson Getting Smarter, Edges Harvard Students in Jeopardy
IBM’s renowned supercomputer Watson, which has already tasted victory several times, has proven to have gotten even smarter. Earlier this week Watson once again gained a victory in a Jeopardy quiz-show battle with a trio of Harvard Business School students, pulling out the win with a high wager on the Final Jeopardy clue that ends every ...
Ubuntu Linux Gets Smart about Phones, Tablets and TVs
Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, has announced that it will brings its Linux-based platform to mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. This porting of Linux Ubuntu will take place in the coming years, while its short term goal is to make Ubuntu 12.04, the next long term support (LTS) of Linux distribution, as stable ...
Kinect’s Commercial Version for Windows SDK Coming in Early 2012
Microsoft’s Kinect, which has been so far used for non-commercial purpose only, is going to be soon launched in commercial version. This commercial version of Kinect will roll out in early 2012. The currently available beta version is targeted at academics, enthusiasts, and researchers who use the motion-sensing capabilities of the Kinect for Xbox 360 ...
Whitman Defines New Direction for HP, Splits Operational Duties
Ever since the ousting of CEO Leo Apotheker took place at Hewlett-Packard, installing Meg Whitman as the new company head, we’ve been hearing some news with a positive spin from the company. The latest is that Whitman has turned down the proposal to spin off the company’s personal-computer unit, as she has split up operational ...
Fab.com Grows Swiftly as Gilt Beefs Up on Buys
Fab.com, a flash sales site dedicated to contemporary design, is growing swiftly as the company added almost 200,000 new members in the past month, taking the number of orders to over ten thousand per week. This is really an impressive growth for a startup business running flash slaes online. Having these whopping figures on their ...
Amazon Simplifies Global Brand, Seeks Growth in China
Amazon has recently made some important updates to its China site – Joyo Amazon. The company has renamed ‘Joyo Amazon’ to simply ‘Amazon,’ and has a new URL to match: “Z.cn.” It is believed that Amazon’s rebranding efforts means the company is ready to manage its global brand alone. Joyo was actually started by Chinese ...
RIM Misses the Boat (Again), Delays PlayBook OS Update until 2012
RIM is delaying the launch of its next Playbook OS till February. The announcement was given by RIM in a blog post yesterday. Earlier, this version of the Playbook OS was scheduled to launch sometime this month, coming shortly afte the company’s developer conference that was held last week in San Francisco. The maiden version ...