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Usman Khalid
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Samsung Galaxy Note: A complete Tech Spec Review – Part 2

Inside the slim (9.7mm in breadth) casing is a massive dual core processor that is clocked at 1.4 GHz. The processor is quite fast and efficient; there is not much stutter felt while navigating through the menus. This dual-core semi-conductor provides the power to Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system. Although the OS is quite a […]

Samsung Galaxy Note: A complete Tech Spec Review – Part 1

Samsung and Google jointly released their new smartphone Galaxy Note in 2011 to adorn the Galaxy line-up. The phone is the first of its kind as its has a stylus nestled inside the casing for writing notes as with a pen and paper. Although the addition of a stylus is a bit old school, it […]

Google Vice President Marissa Mayer likes … APPLE Products! – Part 2

Wow, now this is sportsman spirit or…sportwoman…spirit. This truly shows she is a Standford graduate, doesn’t it. Did I mention she has two degrees from Stanford? This might showcase good sportsman spirit in Mayer but Suits at The Street might not take it as ‘+1′ point. She seems to like products of Google’s sworn archenemy […]

Google Vice President Marissa Mayer likes … APPLE Products! – Part 1

It is not unknown that Google, Inc. and Apple, Inc. are in a cold war of late on various application in general and mobile operating systems in particular. Both companies might even be willing to slip the very foundations from each other’s buildings at Silicon Valley and/or Cupertino, but its America and there is this […]

Hollywood saw sales loss in 2011, mainly due to expensive entertainment – Part 2

The latest movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol was among the biggest hits of the year and so forth the movie has grabbed around $362 Million since the release on December 23. But that revenue was greatly hindered by the expensive ticketing due to the IMAX Experience. When you look at the number of tickets sold […]

Hollywood saw sales loss in 2011, mainly due to expensive entertainment – Part 1

Hollywood saw another drop in the revenues in the recently passed year, although most of the films this year saw promising profits. The overall profits for the year 2011 were 4.7 percent low as compared to 2010. The main reason attached to the low revenues in the year is the expensive entertainment that takes a […]

What to expect of hacking in 2012 – Part 2

Last year, the Texas water supply system got hacked to prove it can be alongside several banks in Europe, by a single hacker. The very Die Hard 4 moment can therefore be expected in the near future and that is not going to be pretty because there might not be a John McClane to save […]

What to expect of hacking in 2012 — Part 1

The year 2011 was anything but secure in terms of internet security and what made it worse was the integration of the public sector organizations that regulate the utilities like water were exposed to the cloud without taking any prior precautions. The corporate sector or the CIA being the target of the hacktivists has been […]

What made 2011 a mercurial year and what should be done to avoid such situation in the future? – Part 4

The main reason why the 2008 upheaval occurred was loosely monitored banking sector that showed profits and profits, nothing else, however; in reality the Enron crisis was in the making. The same happened in Europe. However, the US government and the international community for that matter needs to create units which can oversee the operation […]

What made 2011 a mercurial year and what should be done to avoid such situation in the future? – Part 3

More aching is the failing economy of China. During the 2008 episode, the Chinese government issue a $630 Billion easing package to the business sector, like the US, but the industry managed to get out of the crisis, unlike the US. However, the issue that remained un addressed was the encouragement of domestic consumption. The […]

What made 2011 a mercurial year and what should be done to avoid such situation in the future? — Part 2 –

The reason why the European economy ended in a free fall, yet again was the lack of any long-term financial tools. The free flow of the money from European Central Bank to the commercial and investment ones without a proper check and balance resulted in a gargantuan pile of debt that looked unacceptable in the […]

What made 2011 a mercurial year and what should be done to avoid such situation in the future? – Part 1

The US and the European economy stood on Achilles’ heel the whole year, meaning 2011. Although the 2008 financial crisis settled down after inflicting so much damage to the whole world, its aftermaths are still taking their toll on the employment rate and the debts and borrowing systems in both continents. The US economy is […]

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