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LG is no stranger when it comes to setting hugely ambitious goals for itself, as the company last year shot for a 35 million smartphones sold target. So lacking in confidence is not in the description for the Korean based electronics giant. The company’s latest proclamation is it plans to sell 10 million G2 handsets…
Earlier this month the folks at Sony unveiled the Xperia Z1, one of the company’s brand new high-end flagship devices. The 5-inch waterproof handset is packed with many eye-catching features such as an impressive 20.7-megapixel rear camera, which includes a 1/2.3-inch Exmor RS for mobile CMOS image sensor, G Lens with 27mm wide-angle lens and…
You know every time Google’s Gmail service goes down for a bit, people freak out and lose their shit. It’s somewhat justified because so many rely on the search giant’s services, so a short lapse in production will get people charged up. Google apologized yesterday for any delays users may have suffered, adding that most…
Checked my email this morning and found a message from Apple refunding me for my purchase of the “The Final Season” pass of Breaking Bad. See the thing is Apple has received major criticism from folks like myself who bought the Season 5 pass last year, to then have to buy the next eight episodes…
Flipboard, the uber-popular social reader, just continues to grow as it grabbed new funding of $50 million. Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs help raise the money, putting the company’s valuation at $800 million. According to the AllThingsD report, Rizvi is no stranger to putting cash toward other social networking companies such as Twitter, Facebook…
Sony is fed up with all its products being leaked ahead of launch, so the company plans to tighten up its security. To do this, the electronics giant will carry out strict rules and protocols that employees have to follow when using unannounced devices that haven’t been made official yet. The new rules is on…
Microsoft announced the new and improved Surface 2. This was after the company came out and lead the event by unveiling the Surface Pro 2. Similar to the Pro 2, the next generation Surface RT didn’t change anything major with the hardware as it kept the same 10.6-inch display and overall look. However the hardware…
Microsoft took the stage today to unveil its brand new 10.6-inch Surface Pro 2 tablet. The company didn’t make in major hardware changes, instead many of the slight improvements came to the inside of the device. The Redmond based tech giant touted the slate’s 20 percent increase in overall performance, with a 50 percent increase…
The FCC just gave AT&T the go-ahead to buy $780 million worth of assets from Alltel. The deal includes retail stores, about 620,000 customers in the Midwest, network equipment and spectrum in the 700MHz, 850MHz and 1900MHz bands. Of course there were some strings attached to this package, including these three stipulations: Deploy HSPA+ and…
Today BlackBerry has confirmed its most grim news to date, as the company announced it would be laying of 4,500 more employees, which is almost 40 percent of its workforce. After the layoffs the Waterloo company will have 7,000 jobs remaining. In addition BlackBerry reported that it had lost $950 million for its last financial…