This shows the power of Twitter. Or just the power of a billionaire on Twitter. At around 2:20 p.m. ET, legendary investor Carl Icahn tweeted that he has a huge stake in Apple and then the stock jumped! Apple’s shares, which had been trading at $475.77 went vertical, gaining nearly $9 in less than 3 minutes. By 3:35 p.m. they had touched $494.66. This is the first tweet: ...
In this new hilarious commercial, Qualcomm imagines how today’s world would be like without mobile phones. Nothing special about this ad, but it is fun to watch how much we really are dependent on our smartphones these days. It highlights email, spam, video, tweeting, gaming, Angry Birds, Facebook, etc.
When Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, everybody raised a question - how will Apple survive without him? Apple answered all those critics in a remarkable video Jobs’ mission statement towards innovation. Titled “Designed By Apple – Intention,” the video displays words set against simple design patterns and its definitely worth a watch! The simple words in the video (at the end of the post) appears to be a message to consumers of the company’s product quality and more of direct answer to media, tech industry and everyone. The company just answered its competitors like Samsung who make more phones and throw in every feature they can think of to innovate them. Apple doesn’t work in that way and won’t rush things to market. ...
Windows 8.1 update is coming soon and Microsoft officially discussed several things about the new changes that are going to be available in this update. Major improvements include Start Button, Boot to Desktop, IE 11, deep SkyDrive integration, etc. This update is free to Windows 8 users and preview build is expected to be released sometime around June 26. Carry on reading to find out what’s new in Windows 8.1. ...
Welcome back Start Button! Microsoft seems to be really listening to Windows 8 users. We now have a leaked screenshot of the latest Windows 8.1 preview leaked build. Paul Thurrott from WinSuperSite posted some screenshots showing the brand new Start button fashioned as a Windows 8 icon. When you hover over Start button, the button changes color, with a black background and the accent color used on the flag logo. Yes, it looks exactly like the Start Charm, with similar animations. ...
Few hours ago (late Sunday), I saw the following alert message from AVG antivirus on my Windows 8 computer related to Trojan horse: Agent4.AQLZ and shdocw.dll file. Upon further research on the Internet, I found that this problem is currently faced by thousands of AVG users about virus detection which possibly is a false Trojan Horse alarm by AVG. The antivirus program continues to pile up above virus detection messages whenever you browse windows explorer. After this alert, I attempted to create AVG rescue disk as suggested by help page and followed instructions accordingly. I completely scanned my computer from the rescue disk with no luck. ...
Samsung has not yet announced the rumored Galaxy S4 mini device. But, the handset has shown up accidentally in the company’s website. [Credit] Originally spotted by TGSpot, Samsung’s app site over here allows you to sort apps by device which let you see a glance of all apps of your device. The following screenshot clearly shows Samsung S4 mini listed as S4 Galaxy mini GT-I9195 and SGH-I257 in one of those devices. ...
Have you ever wondered whether you can wake up your PC automatically without actually pressing the power button? This can be useful in scenarios where you want to perform heavy downloads in off-peak hours or other similar actions before you wake up in the morning, without running your computer all the night! [Credit] Follow these step by step procedure to wake your PC from sleep automatically: Step 1: Open Task Scheduler by searching for it in Start Menu ...
The latest and greatest iPhone is just around the corner. Whether the next release is the iPhone 5s or iPhone 6 remains to be seen, but there are several improvements that are almost guaranteed to be seen. There are also many concept videos circulating around the Internet. Below are some of the improvements you can expect with the next release of the iPhone this summer. [Credit] Similar Design as iPhone 5 ...
On the same day Google CEO Larry Page spoke out against “negativity” in the tech industry, we’ve just come across an internal Microsoft video criticizing Google Chrome ‘Now Everywhere’ video. Larry Page said: “I’ve personally been quite sad at the industry’s behavior around all these things. If you take something as simple as IM, we’ve had an open offer to interoperate forever….Just this week Microsoft took advantage of that by interoperating with us. You can’t have people milking off of just one company.” ...