Category archives for: Sci-Tech

How, why and when should the corporate sector embrace tablet culture? – Part 4

Most of the companies do not recommend social networking and other applications like web and stand-alone chatting. Therefore, the network administrators have to go through a series of restrictions and obligations to make it sure that the terminals are not allowed such computing. For this reason, these administrators love tablets because of simple operating system […]

How, why and when should the corporate sector embrace tablet culture? – Part 5

Tablets, on the other hand, have no moving parts whatsoever. The storage device, though has very limited capacity, is a solid-state drive, there are no optical drives and the processors are SoC mostly that are energy efficient and emit no or little heat. Moreover, due to its slate like structure, they do not incorporate hinges. […]

How, why and when should the corporate sector embrace tablet culture? – Part 6

That being said, there are companies that live on letters and textual content. For such a niche in the market, there are various option, wireless keyboards and docks available in the market that a low-cost products and a volume purchase might bring the price even down from that. Less computing does not need powerful processor […]

How, why and when should the corporate sector embrace tablet culture? – Part 7

Physical Security Though the main attraction of the tablets is their slim and sleek design, the same is a big threat to its security. Even though the current slew of ultrabooks and mid-range notebooks is also slim, on average, the tablets are light weight and extremely thin, often mistake for a file. This poses threats […]

Apple investors brace for more turbulence

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s results will be dissected more closely than ever next week, after a share swoon raised concerns on Wall Street that the stock’s gravity-defying rally may be losing steam. Five straight days of stock losses for the world’s most valuable company sparked fears it had ventured into dreaded bubble territory and was […]

Capacitive buttons turn software keys; cramp up the keyboard more – Part 1

Mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, all have virtual keyboards that are there to facilitate the users in typing long texts, composing emails and even surfing the web. However, due to the constraints of the device dimensions—as the gadgets are becoming more and more slim—the physical keyboards are almost out of question. Though virtual keyboards […]

Capacitive buttons turn software keys; cramp up the keyboard more – Part 2

The OS incorporates all the physical buttons underneath the screen, in the software. So when you see the Galaxy Nexus with the Option, Home and Return button glowing underneath the screen, don’t get fooled because they are not under the screen but a part of the screen. Google has take the bold step of including […]

KLM allows passengers to select seatmates

Dutch airline, KLM, has launched a program called Knowing and Coping, which allows travellers to upload details of their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles and use the data to choose seatmates. "For at least 10 years we have been studying the phenomenon of serendipity and whether it could increase the chances of meeting someone interesting on board. But we […]

Samsung Galaxy SIII: What can we expect?

Sammy is set to unveil the much-anticipated successor the now iconic Galaxy SII and Newspakistan analyzes some features can look forward to. 1.      Quad-core: One of the best features of Samsung’s new device will be the use of a 1.5 Quad-core processor, that is only available on the HTC One-X as of yet. Four cores […]

Oracle says Google’s own emails show its guilt

(Reuters) – An Oracle attorney cited emails between top executives at Google as prime evidence that Google took its intellectual property to gain an edge in the lucrative smartphone market, at the start of a high stakes trial between the two tech giants.   Opening statements between Oracle Corp and Google Inc began on Monday […]

US Government sues Apple over pricing of EBooks

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Apple on Wednesday and against the five largest book publishers in the United States accusing them of conspiring to raise the selling price of electronic books and thereby limit competition its sale. It keeps the prosecution of the U.S. government, with the formation of this cartel, […]

The reasons behind high prices of e-books – Part 1

Since the release of the original Kindle from Amazon in 2007, e-book business has taken a new turn. Although it is not a new category in literature, e-books have been in the market since the 90s but they were limited to laptops and desktops. However, the new Kindle, e-reader, pushed the edge of the envelope […]

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