Posts Tagged ‘ apple ’

Facebook’s initial public offering is due in 2012 since the company announced its giant funding round from Goldman Sachs at the start of this year.

Nov 22nd, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Facebook’s initial public offering is due in 2012 since the company announced its giant funding round from Goldman Sachs at the start of this year.
At that point, the company said in a press release that it ”expected to pass 500 shareholders at some point in 2011, and therefore expects to start filing public financial reports no [...]



Nokia’s new Lumia 800 model finally goes on sale. A make or break week for Nokia.

Nov 14th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile Everything

Nokia’s new Lumia 800 model finally goes on sale, and the first time the Finnish giant will really be able to gauge what consumers really think of their first credible offering in a number of years.
The Lumia 800 features a premium polycarbonate uni-body design, a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512 MB of RAM, a [...]



Apple has awarded seven of its key executives with massive stock grants worth approximately $400 million in total.

Nov 5th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Apple

Six Apple SVPs have been awarded 150,000 shares of Apple for their services, according to recent SEC filings. This includes Scott Forstall (SVP, iOS), Robert Mansfield (SVP, Hardware Engineering), Peter Oppenheimer (CFO), Phil Schiller (SVP, Marketing), Jeffrey Williams (SVP, Operations) and Bruce Sewell (SVP, General Counsel).
At Apple’s current stock price of $400.24, those shares are [...]



New PlugBug Innovates Your MBP Charger. your Apple notebooks power adapter and adds a USB charger capable of charging your iPhone or iPad.

Nov 5th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Desktop applications

The New PlugBug Innovates Your MBP Charger is a small adapter that attaches to your Apple notebooks power adapter and adds a USB charger capable of charging your iPhone or iPad.
The add on couples to your Apple charger, in place of the extension cord or plug adapter, allowing you to leave one of your chargers at [...]



China’s ZTE surpassed Apple to become the world’s fourth largest handset vendor. While Samsung’s market share reached record high levels.

Oct 29th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: press release

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global handset shipments grew 14 percent annually to reach 390 million units in the third quarter of 2011.
China’s ZTE surpassed Apple to become the world’s fourth largest handset vendor, while Samsung’s market share reached record high levels.
Alex Spektor, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Despite ongoing economic [...]



Nokia Rolls the Dice with Windows Devices. Nokia today made a long anticipated move to recapture a share of the fiercely competitive smart phone market.

Oct 28th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile Everything

The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 are the first fruits of the Microsoft-Nokia alliance, a high-stakes gamble in a daunting battle with Apple, Google, and others for relevance in the fast-growing mobile-computing market.
Troubled cell-phone maker Nokia today made a long anticipated move to recapture a share of the fiercely competitive smart phone market with [...]



NOKIA has launched its long-awaited first Windows 7 smartphones, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the smartphone race to chief rivals, Apple, Samsung and Google.

Oct 27th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile Everything

NOKIA has launched its long-awaited first Windows 7 smartphones, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the smartphone race to chief rivals, Apple, Samsung and Google.
With price tags of $560 and $360, the Lumia 800 and 710 are based on Microsoft’s operating system and come eight months after Nokia and the computing [...]



A Tribute – Visual Life Story Of STEVE JOBS. From Techistan Team.

Oct 12th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Podcasts

A Tribute – Visual Life Story Of STEVE JOBS. From Techistan Team.
History of Apple’s founder Steve Jobs 1955-2011.



Google is improving voice recognition on Android by relocating a senior U.K. programmer to its California headquarters.

Oct 8th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Google

Director of Engineering Dave Burke, known as one of Google’s top programmers.
Will join the Internet giant’s Android engineering center in Mountain View, Calif.
Burke came to Google from a Dublin, Ireland speech recognition company and has published numerous academic papers about the topic.
Google is improving voice recognition on Android, by relocating a senior U.K. programmer to [...]



Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator.

Oct 7th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Podcasts

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator.
He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.
He became a member of the board of directors ofThe Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of [...]