A company with name ‘GRAPHISOFT’ has commissioned a bronze statue of Steve Jobs in Budapest. Gabor Major, founder of Graphisoft met Jobs in 1984 at a trade show in Germany where the company was demonstrating its 3D modeling software on a Lisa computer. The statue is being sculpted by Hungarian artist Erno Toth and will reside in Graphisoft Park, a Budapest commercial complex that houses several technology companies. [via] ...
Whether you’re a printer for your home office for the first time or just in need of a replacement, inkjet versus laser is a question that will be on your mind. Which should you choose? What is the best investment? The highest quality? Which is the right choice for you? There is no quick, easy answer to this question. When you’re trying to decide, you need to weigh a few different things concerning what you’ll be using the printer for. Each home business is different, and you’ll need to consider your own personal needs when deciding between an inkjet and laser printer. ...
When Steve Jobs claimed that Google “stole” Apple’s innovation, today, the United States Trade Commission (ITC) agreed and all those HTC infringing products are banned from the US. This rule applies to several popular HTC products including Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, G2, etc. The rule applies to all Android HTC devices running 1.6 to 2.2 in the United States effective April 2012. Before reading all those long pages of patents and infringements, here is the main ‘copycat’ reason. CNN Fortune took an in-depth review of this patent and according to them, it works like this - ...
Since Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, everyone has been talking about one awesome feature: Siri. This feature was the first of its real kind of piece of software using normal talking language. We had many voice command software before, just like Microsoft’s Tellme, open source, commercial software, but Siri lit a fire. Even though Siri is technically still in beta, it impressed us in many other ways. Now, everybody started copying it. First in the line is Google. Read on.. ...
Microsoft is doing decently good with their recently launched Windows Phone 7.5 platform. I had a chance to test some of its exciting features on Samsung Focus i917. Just like Apple’s iOS App Store alternative for jailbreakers – Cydia, Windows Phone 7 users get an alternative apps distribution platform to Windows Market Place, known as Bazaar. These alternative platforms let in apps that are rejected from the official App Store or Market Place. Just like Apple’s App Store, Microsoft’s Market Place is a well monitored and closed system unlike Google’s Android market. All apps that are submitted that are submitted for App Store or Market Place goes through a strict screening process. If an app is found to be violated guidelines set by Apple or Microsoft, it is rejected and sent back to the developer. ...
Microsoft today announced the release of Silverlight 5. Silverlight is part of a rich offering of technologies from Microsoft helping developers deliver applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. From the MSDN blog, new features in Silverlight 5 include - New features in Silverlight 5 include Hardware Decode of H.264 media, which provides a significant performance improvement with decoding of unprotected content using the GPU; Postscript Vector Printing to improve output quality and file size; and an improved graphics stack with 3D support that uses the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain low-level access to the GPU for drawing vertex shaders and low-level 3D primitives. ...
Is the founder and Chairman of Redmond giant Microsoft coming to the company he founded? This news could be true soon if investor gossip is considered by board of members. According to a report on CNN Money, the company’s stock price has been a thorn in Steve Ballmer’s side for a decade. At the end of 1999, in Bill Gates period, shares were at almost $60. When Steve Ballmer took over in 2000, the share price dropped to $25. ...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that its not so hit platform webOS to be available to the open source community. In a press release that is posted today, the company announced that webOS is the only platform designed from the ground up to be mobile, cloud-connected and scalable. Few days ago, HP started selling its Touchpads for $99 which was a huge flop product in the tablet world. This drastic price decrease is to cut down its manufacturing losses. Now, the company is also putting down its webOS to the open source community and cuts its losses. ...
A security flaw in Facebook has been discovered which may reveal your private photos. The world’s largest social networking website with an estimated 850 million users confirmed this bug and issued a statement that it has been fixed. The exploit allowed the hacker to dig into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page inside photos section and revealed some private photos. Before you try this how exactly it works, Facebook might have already fixed this bug. ...
Apple was right to dismiss Samuel (20), an employee who criticized his iPhone and job in a series of his Facebook posts. One of his Facebook friends, who was also his colleague told his boss about these posts. The employee posted against one of the apps - ‘F***ed up my time zone for the third time in a week and woke me up at 3am? JOY!!’ The same worker also made one more fun comment at the company’s tagline on Beatles songs on iTunes - ‘Tomorrow’s just another day that hopefully I will forget.’ against the original tagline to ‘Tomorrow is another day. That you’ll never forget.’ ...