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Apple rejects e-book pricing collusion charge: WSJ

(Reuters) – Apple has rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it colluded with publishers over electronic book pricing, calling the charges "simply not true", the Wall Street Journal reported. "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told the […]

Amazon announces price cut

The defeat of one party almost means the triumph of another, although if the other party is not directly involved in battle. This is what has happened to the U.S. government to demand Apple and several publishers to reconsider e-book pricing. But as Apple’s agreement and publishing’s were a triumph over Amazon, but now the triumph of the U.S. […]

Smartphones from 2011 and 2012 with killer displays – Part 1

LED or LCD screens have always been one of the major selling points of the smartphones. Now-a-days the technology has become so advanced that it is hard for human eye to detect pixels in the screen. The more the screen resolution becomes dense, the more complicated the circuit becomes and screen resolution is directly proportional […]

Smartphones from 2011 and 2012 with killer displays – Part 2

The most anticipated advancement is that Apple will build the new screen with the infamous AMOLED technology to give the phone missing oomph that its competitors have been bragging about. Speaking of which. Nokia Lumia 900 The phone was introduced in April 2012 with 4G LTE technology. The Lumia 900 is first smartphone from Nokia […]

Smartphones from 2011 and 2012 with killer displays – Part 3

The best thing about the screen is that at 4.5 inches the screen is neither too small like 4.3- or 3.7-inch displays, nor too big like 4.7-, 5.0- or 5.3-inch screens. Its structure lets the phone fit perfectly in the pocket and the size of its screen makes it a handy phone as well. Samsung […]

Smartphones from 2011 and 2012 with killer displays – Part 4

Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket The screen quality has always been Samsung’s forte in the world of mobile communication. They never lagged behind their competitors when the world knew nothing about smartphones and keypad-based conventional handsets ruled the world. Now that the smartphone moniker is in the details, they are busy in giving their competitors a […]

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 1

Since Apple’s beloved operating system, Mac OS X is under attacker, especially the versions after 2010, that would be Snow Leopard and last year’s Lion. The malware that has become the pain in Apple circles is infamous for the alias, Flashback that attacks the operating system on weak point of Java vulnerability in the web […]

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 2

OS X does not come with Java installed by default, and the latest versions of Java should be patched properly so anyone with new or properly updated systems should be safe from these threats; however, there are likely many people still running older versions of Java on their systems that are still vulnerable. If you […]

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 3

F-Secure’s analysis offers a detailed method for detecting and ultimately removing the malware from your system, though you can easily detect the malware in its known variants by running the following three commands sequentially in the OS X Terminal utility: defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment If your system […]

Facebook application “Instagram” getting popular

Instagram, the application, has become popular worldwide as it was a matter of time that it attracted users towards itself. Facebook, the largest social network online, bought Instagram for 765 million Euros (1,000 million). The operation took place when Mark Zuckerberg’s company finalizes the deal, last month. Instagram is a program that lets you share photos via […]

New developments in the processor technology – Quad-core processors replace dual-core

One thing to know about the mobile computing is that it is evolving week after week. Not far the days when dual-core processors were considered the next big thing in the market, and it is not that far away, just 2011. Now that NVIDIA has offered quad-core processors, the 2011 models look the thing of […]

Quad-core processors: Do they really double up the efficiency of smartphones? – Part 1

As the numbers rise, so does the processor technology. Last year we saw dual-core processors dominate the game of smartphones and tablets. The year before, HTC brought the first Android smartphone with a processor clocked at GHz of speed, the original EVO 3G. However, the technology has evolved and I must say that the process […]

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