Posted on December 31st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Activations of new iOS and Android devices soared on Christmas Day, jumping by 142% over the same day last year, a Web metrics company said. Meanwhile, Google’s head of mobile claimed that 3.7 million new Android smartphones and tablets had been activated last weekend. According to Flurry, which provides metrics services to app developers, total [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Netbook sales have been declining, with major vendors deciding to leave the netbook market entirely. That hasn’t stopped Intel from launching a new family of processors designed for small and cheap laptops. The new chips are the Atom N2600 and N2800, based on the Intel’s third-generation Atom architecture, codenamed Cedarview. The Cedar Trail-M platform pairs [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Windows-based tablets haven’t been treated kindly by the test of time. Those released in the Windows XP era relied on wonky, stylus-based data entry, and even modern, touch-based tablets running Windows 7 are poor performers. Indeed, Microsoft has a troubled tablet history that the public isn’t soon to forget. This November, Forrester released a study [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Sporadic radio blackouts are expected to occur in the wake of a massive eruption of solar plasma, technically known as a coronal mass ejection. Scientists predicted that fast-moving charged particles could spawn minor or moderate geomagnetic storms at high altitudes, creating colorful aurora bursts among the so-called Northern Lights.
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Posted on December 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
How much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost? In base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be negligible; after all, what is a Twitter post but a few bits of data sent caroming through the Internet? But in a world where social media’s influence [...]
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Posted on December 26th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
If people are buying through mobile online retail site, they’re most likely doing so on Apple devices, according to a new report this week from retail analysis firm RichRelevance. iPads and iPhones accounted for over 92 percent of online retail sales not originating from a desktop device occurring in December, according to the study. That’s [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Hosting and domain registrar company Go Daddy has lost more than 37,000 domains in the past two days due to the company’s wishy-washy stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act. The fleeing domains comes as a result of the intense backlash from customers and Internet critics after Go Daddy appeared on an official list of [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Just as the popularity of Mozilla’s Firefox browser seemed to be ebbing, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has provided a major boost with a deal to pay Mozilla $300 million annually to keep Google as Firefox’s default search engine, according to a report. Mozilla and Google have agreed to continue their search agreement for another three years, amounting [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America’s top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, according to several people familiar with the matter. The break-in at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one of the boldest known infiltrations in [...]
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