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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmers Announces His Retirement after Heading Company for 13 Straight Years
0By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has grabbed headlines on several occasions not only for introducing the products of his company, but also because of his entertaining and eccentric nature. However, this time Ballmer has caught the limelight because of his decision to retire. Ballmer has finally decided to ste...
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Toronto-Based Artez Interactive Gets Acquired by FrontStream Payments for an Undisclosed Amount
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The online fundraising solution provider, Artez Interactive, made it known on August 19th through a media release that it has been acquired by FrontStream Payments, a top payment providing company that also does peer-to-peer fundraising and provide...
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Tester Shares Details of Sony Z1 Honami
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Android, News, Smartphones
Several leaked reports regarding the much rumoured Sony i1 Honami have surfaced online so far and thanks to its 20-megapixel rear camera, the forthcoming smartphone has become a hit even before its release. However, the Japanese OEM, Sony, is not producing one smartphone under the Honami brand and the latest reports indicates that...
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Police Chief in San Francisco says Drug Dealers are Becoming Mobile Phone Thieves
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
The Police Chief of San Francisco, Greg Suhr, has revealed that more and more low level drug dealers are now becoming cellphone robbers because in contrast to drug dealing mobile phone robbery is less risky. In addition to this, The SF Examiner report has highlighted the fact that thieves are now also learning “the value of collaboration” that has made life even harder for both police and the ...
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Reuters’ Profile Refers To Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘No Non-Sense’ and Methodical As Comapared To Steve Jobs
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is considered a methodical person when it comes to running the company. In fact Cook is generally painted even more methodical than the former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs. However, some might not agree with this statement, as they believe that what Jobs had done for Apple, Cook would not be able to achieve even...
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Google Updates Android Edition of its Search App, Adds Seven New Features Including Directions for Rental Car Pickup Points
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Google, Mobile Apps, News
Besides enhancing definitions, Mountain View-based company has now also improved its Google Search app for Android powered devices. As a result of this, the latest Android edition of the Google Search app includes features like playing music of users’ favourite TV shows to providing directions of pick up points of car rentals a...
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Google Enhances Definitions by Adding Features Like Sample Sentences, Synonyms, Translation, Spoken Responses and More
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Google, News
Finding definitions of words on the Google search engine is not a new feature, as users from all around globe have been using this trick for a long time. However, just like its other features Google has now updated its definition feature as well for both mobile and desktop users in order to give them more information regarding t...
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Google Introduces Real-Time Reports of Incidents in Maps and Adds Street View to Waze App
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Google, Mobile Apps, News
The search engine giant Google made it known on Tuesday, August 20th through a post on its Google Maps blog that it has finally added the technology from newly acquired firm Waze to its mapping service. Now users of the service will also be able to see real-t...
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German Physicians Creates History by Successfully Removing Two Tumours from Liver with Help of an iPad
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Apple, iOS, News, Tablets
The chief physician of Asklepios Hospital for general and visceral surgery, Professor Karl Oldhafer, has created history when he along with his team of German physicians successfully took out two tumours from a liver with the help of an Apple iPad. With this successful operation Oldhafer, who was leading the team of physicians, ha...
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Canadian Government Says It Is not Going to Help BlackBerry Sort Its Problems
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
It’s not a hidden secret anymore that BlackBerry is struggling in the smartphone business, as the Waterloo-based company has officially made it known that it is considering all options, which includes selling the company or issuing an IPO to bring in new invest...
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