In the last hour I heard that Facebook has bought Instagram for $1billion dollars. This is literally double the valuation that was set for Instagram by VC investors at the end of last week, who put in $50 million at a valuation of $500million! At the last count, Instagram had 30 million users. It recently [...]
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The Home PC is About to Die
February 12, 2012
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Within a year or two, the home PC (including laptops) will start to die out. Smart devices such as the smartphone, tablet and smart TV will make them redundant. We’ll have a variety of different screens around the house which can either be TVs or workstations for us to work on … but the processing [...]
Read moreWho Will Save Nokia?
January 20, 2012
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So far, Nokia’s comeback – where they bet everything on the Windows Phone operating system – has been an unmitigated disaster: – In late 2011 they launched their Lumia 800 smartphone, which was immediately out-sold 100 to 1 by the Samsung Galaxy S2 in the UK … a country known to traditionally love Nokia – [...]
Read moreGigapixel Cameras
December 28, 2011
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If you’re the owner of a top-of-the-range smartphone like the iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy S2, you are probably very impressed with your phone’s 8 megapixel camera. Rightly so, you can take some stunning shots with something that fits easily in your pocket. However, thanks to R&D funded by the US military, megapixel cameras are [...]
Read moreFastest Smartphones – November 2011
November 20, 2011
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Looking at just the specifications of the latest smartphones is becoming a little misleading. For example, Apple merely states that their iPhone 4S comes with a dual-core A5 processor … it doesn’t tell anyone that it is running at around 800Mhz. Similarly, dual-core processors and their respective chipsets vary a great deal in raw performance. [...]
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