The iconic Commodore 64 has marked its 30th anniversary this week, pioneering the concept of home computing and opening the door to the likes of Atari, Microsoft and Apple. This BBC video introduces school children of today to the granddaddy of home computing to see if it still holds appeal to the ‘Facebook generation’.
With Facebook’s inaugural results perceived as being underwhelming, and Facebook looking to mobile to grow revenues, the challenge of how it monetises people’s usage of its network over mobile phones continues to be a primary concern for investors. According to Andreas Pouros, Chief Operating Officer at Greenlight, if a phone is now not part of … [Read more…]
Apple is set to unveil its much-anticipated iPhone 5 and iPad Mini on September 12th and will be in the shops nine days later, according to a news report.
Apple is set to unveil its much-anticipated iPhone 5 and iPad Mini on September 12th and will be in the shops nine days later, according to a news report.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company does not plan to create a Facebook-branded smartphone during a conference call with financial analysts and reporters this week.
Apple considered investing in Twitter, in a deal that would have valued Twitter at around $10bn (£6.4bn) and it would also have signalled the technology giant’s eventual intention to take on Facebook.
Nokia has posted worse than expected Q2 results, including a drop in smartphone sales of 34% as the number of devices sold fell 39% year-on-year. The firm, which was until recently the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, posted a net loss of 1.41 billion euros – about four times the 368 million euro loss posted … [Read more…]
Microsoft has posted a loss of $492 million in the past quarter, the first ever for the software giant, as results were hit by a previously announced writeoff for its online ad business aQuantive.
Google Nexus 7 goes on sale across a number of territories today including the UK, as the firm looks to rival Apple’s iPad in the growing tablet market.
Following the announcement of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet Experian Hitwise looks at how the news had changed the way that UK consumers are searching online for tablets.