Everybody knows how Apple make all its own hardware, operating system and other features which own the real customer experience from all over. The company even controls all its product supply all over the world in agreement to retail stores. One area they don’t have control is the mobile carriers. Now, Computer World reports that wireless industry leader John Stanton (Founder of Western Wireless, VoiceStream) claims that Steve Jobs had wanted to get into a position where the company would not depend on the likes of ATT or ATT in order to sell their iPhone. ...

Yesterday, Logitech hosted an Analyst and Investor Day and CEO Guerrino De Luca says that his company’s dance with Google TV was a big mistake and announced that it will stop producing the set top boxes. It is estimated that Logitech spent about $100 million on the product and has little to show it. For those who haven’t heard of it, Google TV is a software platform for set-top boxes and HDTVs based on the Android OS. And Logitech developed a separate box Logitech Revue that includes a companion box, which is an external device that connects to your TV though an HDMI port. One of the main advantages or applications with this device is video conferencing using a Logitech HD camera. ...

Why you need to back up your data A surprising number of individuals do not back up their computer data. Such people often assume it would take too much effort to make backups. They might also think that data loss will simply never happen to them. If data loss has not happened to them before, they might not be worried. They should be. Data loss can and does strike without warning, from many directions. Among the causes of data loss are human error, hardware malfunctions, software bugs, hardware age, and physical accidents. Of course there is also always the case of a malicious enemy or angry ex who manually wipes your hard drive. Don’t be a fool. Back up your data. ...

Since Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, everyone has been talking about one awesome feature: Siri. Unlike Apple’s own innovations, Siri – the digital personal assistant wasn’t made by Apple. Siri was founded in 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering) and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design). Siri was originally developed as an iOS application available in the App Store and later acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010. It is now integrated part of iOS 5 and available only on iPhone 4S (taken from Wikipedia). ...

Aircel has announced a while ago that it will bring iPhone 4S to India on its Facebook page. Even though it has not confirmed the exact date and pricing details, BGR is reporting that November 24 is the likely launch date. BGR also reports that iPhone 4S will be expensive and will start from close to Rs. 40,000 for the 16GB device and over Rs. 50,000 for the 64GB model. In addition, Airtel will be the second carrier to launch the iPhone 4S in India. Both the carries will launch the 8GB version of iPhone 4 which will be priced around Rs. 30,000. ...

In a recent blog post by one of its executives, Adobe said that it would no longer be developing its popular Flash for mobile devices. Instead it would aggressively contribute towards HTML5. Here is the key point from the post - “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. We will also allow our source code licensees to continue working on and release their own implementations.” ...

We have seen many smartphones that are currently powered by dual-core processors, but HTC is making ahead of the race with four cores. This new device could be the HTC Edge reportedly launching in first or second quarter next year. Rumors suggest that this device has a 4.7 HD display, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera, 21Mbps HSDPA networks. According to Pocketnow, the device likely comes with NVIDIA’s 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 32 GB internal storage, beats audio. We can obviously expect Android in it. ...

Apple is remarkable and popular to its minute design tweaks and improvements in terms of graphics and calligraphy. Today, I noticed a weird text overlap on my iPhone 4S running iOS 5. Before you watch the video to reproduce on your devices, here is the screenshot of the bug: If you carefully observe above two screenshots, the ‘Battery Usage’ is overlapped with ‘Manage Storage’ and the iCloud description is also repeated twice in the first screenshot. ...

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) says it is cutting down around 1400 workers from its 12000 employees. AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies. Other main products apart from microprocessors include motherboard chipsets, graphic, embedded processors for servers, workstations, etc. According to Yahoo, the main reason behind this move is because of weak computer market and manufacturing delays of PCs. This layoffs and other actions are expected to save $200 million in savings in 2012. ...

Google India announced a new initiative program ‘India Get Your Business Online’ which offers free websites, domain and hosting services to small businesses in India. This program according to Google India, designed with local partners provides Indian businesses the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers and grow their businesses. So, how is this all free? Google is investing in Indian businesses by creating www.IndiaGetOnline.in and paying for your .in domain registry for 12 months. HostGator, one of the leading hosting providers is providing with hosting services, their leading site building tool and support. ...