WHAT’S NEW IN GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY February 23, 2011 SONY LAUNCHES NEW VAIO RANGE Sony unveiled its new range of Vaio laptops this week, including the strikingly-coloured C Series. Available in luminous orange, green and pink, it features light emitting technology that makes your laptop look like it’s glowing. For the more demure consumer, you can also grab it in black or white, and [...]
Phone chip boost for Toshiba January 31, 2011 JAPAN’S Toshiba more than doubled its quarterly operating profit on booming sales of NAND flash memory chips and robust demand for LCD panels used in smartphones and tablets. But the sprawling conglomerate cut its full year sales forecast and left its operating profit outlook unchanged for the year to March, citing a strong yen and [...]
Toshiba profit surge fuelled by smartphones January 31, 2011 Japan’s Toshiba Corp said third quarter operating profit more than doubled on buoyant sales of NAND flash memory and liquid-crystal displays used in tablets and smartphones including Apple’s iPad and iPhone. The world’s second largest supplier of NAND chips kept its full year operating profit forecast unchanged, but lifted its net and pretax profit estimates. [...]
Smartphone sales rocket as Apple bites February 9, 2011 GLOBAL smartphone sales grew an astonishing 72 per cent, with next-generation handsets now making up almost a fifth of receipts, according to new research by Gartner. BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple crept ahead of industry stalwarts Sony Ericsson and Motorola in total phone sales, with both claiming close to three per cent of [...]
FIRST LOOK AT THE IPAD 2 March 2, 2011 The iPad 2 is better, faster, slicker. Rivals hoping to muscle in may as well pack up and go home – if you want a tablet, nothing comes close to this. LAST night I got my hands on one of the first iPad 2s in the country. Steve Jobs, looking positively healthy for a man [...]
The five tech trends set to change your world in 2011 February 17, 2011 MOBILE World Congress (MWC), the world’s biggest mobile phone show, ended yesterday. Here City A.M., looks at the biggest trends to emerge from the show and looks at how they could affect your life over the next year. THE SHADOW OF NOKIA/MICROSOFT THE bombshell dropped by Nokia the weekend before MWC kicked off, when the [...]
AT&T launches 12 new Google smartphones January 6, 2011 GOOGLE won a major vote of confidence in its mobile phone platform Android yesterday, after America’s second largest network said it would launch 12 new handsets which run the software. AT&T announced four times as many smartphones as it did this time a year ago, backed heavily by Google software, highlighting the urgency of its [...]
Nokia chief Elop comes out fighting February 16, 2011 NOKIA boss Stephen Elop took to the stage for his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress yesterday with calls for his resignation ringing in his ears. A group of shareholders, all former Nokia employees who are dismayed by his decision to ditch the Symbian operating system in favour of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7), issued [...]
Cook says it’s time to forget Ashes win and look to an Indian summer April 18, 2011 ALASTAIR COOK is skilled when it comes to anticipating what’s coming his way. As an opening batsman, being able to predict the moment at which a fast bowler is readying himself to produce a delivery designed to inflict physical pain is part of the battle. As Cook’s record in Australia this winter would testify, he’s [...]
Cook says it’s time to forget Ashes win and look to an Indian summer April 18, 2011 ALASTAIR COOK is skilled when it comes to anticipating what’s coming his way. As an opening batsman, being able to predict the moment at which a fast bowler is readying himself to produce a delivery designed to inflict physical pain is part of the battle. As Cook’s record in Australia this winter would testify, he’s [...]