Slower than anticipated demand for the sometime-released iPhone 5 has forced Apple to cut down on orders on its components, including screens and several other parts, according to insider sources who have disclosed some details to the Wall Street Journal. This appears to be an unexpected, ironic if you will, piece of development considering that [...]
Not everyone is chummy with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Social Network, so if you have something urgent to tell him and you feel that it is worth any expense, then you might try shelling out $100 just so your message won’t go into that little-known Other Inbox and get ignored. Anyone who is [...]
In an announcement made by Judge Nelson Wolff and several other county leaders in Bexar County, Texas, the first bookless public library in the county will soon be opening in the fall. Plans regarding the paperless library system, dubbed as BiblioTech, and with a sample location on the South Side of the county, have been [...]
Aaron Swartz was not yet fifteen when he helped in creating the RSS web feed format, which allowed users the convenient subscription to online information. On Friday, January 11, he hanged himself and was found dead in his apartment by one of his friends. Mr. Swartz was only 26. Swartz’s Contributions to the Internet Landscape [...]
The Rubiks Cube has fascinated, entertained, and challenged many for generations now; but not everyone has had the opportunity to try out this colorful puzzle. Since the main idea behind the Rubiks cube was to arrange each of its six faces according to its distinct color, visually-impaired individuals have never had the chance to try [...]
This year’s CES showcased the Pebble SmartWatch which finally starts shipping on January 23, 2013. A Kickstarter project that began in 2008, the Pebble – a Blackberry watch created to work with RIM smartphones – snatched up only about 1,500 orders as of the previous April but now orders are coming in, and the company [...]
The Apophis asteroid already whizzed past Earth at a distance of about 9 million miles yesterday, but when it comes zipping by again in 2029 it could hit a few satellites. When it passes by again in 2036 there is a very slim chance that it will make an unwelcome crash landing into Earth, according [...]
It’s official: Microsoft will be retiring Messenger in favor of Skype starting March 15, 2013. On Tuesday more than 100 million Messenger users received a notification email from Microsoft informing them that the service will be shelved on the aforementioned date and that migration to Skype will immediately take effect. It was in November of [...]
With the primary objective of studying cognitive development of one-year olds or infants in general, the Machine Perception Lab of the University of California has developed a robot baby called Diego-san. Dr. Javier Movellan, leading the team at the Machine Perception Lab, has explained their foremost motives in the creation of Diego-san. According to him, [...]
Apple’s clout in the smartphone market has lost its solid footing in recent periods, with global smartphone shipments down to 14.6% in the third quarter of 2012 from 23% in the first quarter of 2012 and the last quarter of 2011. This may be quite a blow to the company, given the fact that a [...]
If your fork could speak, it might tell you to go easy on that creamy pasta or grilled chops. Now, one fork actually does all these things and more. Welcome the HAPIfork from HAPILABS, a smart piece of cutlery that allows you to measure how many bites you’ve had, how long you’ve been chowing down, [...]
The App Store has recorded an all-time total of 40 Billion downloads, as announced by Apple today, with up to 20 billion downloads made in 2012 alone. This a record-breaking performance for the apps over at the App Store, especially as December alone saw a total of 2 billion downloads. Definitely a triumph for the [...]
Lenovo has introduced several additions to its latest offerings, and chief among these is the impressive IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC. Equipped with multi-touch and multi-user capabilities, this table PC is actually a Windows 8 desktop device integrated with powerful Core i3 to i7 processors and boasting of up to 1TB in storage. Yet the Horizon [...]
For nineteen months the FTC or Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Google’s search results algorithm, after the search engine giant endured accusations that centered on search bias and its business practices not being excellent for competition. And according to the investigation results, Google is not unfair for the competition and has not been violating [...]
In an attempt to challenge Facebook, Google is requiring everyone to be on Google+, The Wall Street Journal Online reports. It may not be apparent to users yet, but creating a mere Gmail account or an account for downloading YouTube videos will automatically give them a public account on Google+. The fact that Google+ has [...]
Do aliens live amongst us? If you ask TUFOS, the publically funded Taiwanese agency responsible for studying aliens, the answer seems to a big, unequivocal yes. Although photographs of an extraterrestrial were purportedly taken by a local policeman back in May, the images, taken near the Jiaming Lake region of Taitung, were released last weekend. [...]
Written on 05 Jan 2013 by Vincent AbryHere are some recent numbers about Twitter. The social network has now 1 billion accounts (including spam and fake ones) according to Twopcharts. Since December 18, 2012, Twitter has 200 million active accounts (there were 100 million in September 2011) 400 million tweets are posted each day 1.6 billion searches are conducted every day Twitter receives [...]
Written on 05 Jan 2013 by Vincent AbryVery rare image : a baby grabbed doctor’s finger from mother’s abdomen during a caesarean operation in Phoenix, Arizona. ““It was such an amazing photo. [Hospital staff] had possibly heard of it happening but they had never seen a photo of it,” said Alicia Atkins, Nevaeh’s mother (a professional photographer, see her facebook page). “The [...]
Written on 04 Jan 2013 by Vincent AbryIf you are a webmaster and a little serious with SEO, you must read this list of the 27 significant updates Google made for its search algorithm in 2012. This includes 14 Panda and 3 Penguin updates. But also, the EMD (Exact Match Domain) Penalty, the 7-results serps, the Link warnings, the Knowledge Graph, the [...]
Written on 04 Jan 2013 by Vincent AbryA new way of exploring moons and asteroids is being devised by Stanford researchers who are collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA. This involves the development of a mother spacecraft – known as The Phobos Surveyor- that will release spherical and spiked rovers to one of Mar’s [...]