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Twitter Search Results Now Reveal Older Tweets
0By: Talha Bhatti | February 8th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Popular micro-blogging site, Twitter, has just updated its search feature and it now displays older tweets in the results page. This is an improvement over the previous version which showed tweets that had been made up to a week ago but nothing past that point. The week limit has been removed but Twitter has not given out the details of how far...
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Canadian Competition Bureau Raise Concerns on Misleading Telecom Ads
By: Zain Nabi | February 8th, 2013 | News, O Canada
Telecom companies present their ads in such a fascinating way that consumers get attracted towards them, most of the time without giving a second thought to their decision. Their messages and offers are so tempting that consumers do not find need to think of other options. However, it has been observed for quite some time now that many telecom companies misguide their consumers by not presenting c...
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Alcatel-Lucent CEO Steps Down, Decision Pleases Shareholders
By: Zain Nabi | February 8th, 2013 | News
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen has stepped down from his position after failing to turn things around for the company that is undergoing a tough time owing to huge losses. The decision, however, pleased the shareholders of the French-U.S. company as its share value jumped by 7.7 per cent in early trading,
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BlackBerry Appoints New Directors
By: Zain Nabi | February 8th, 2013 | News
Pursuing its goal of revamping its tarnished image, BlackBerry has taken another step in the forward direction by adding two directors to its board. The new members are Richard Lynch, former Vice President of Verizon Communications, and Bert Nordberg, former Chief Executive Officer of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. The recent additions have taken the total number of directors to 12. ...
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Microsoft and Symantec Save The Day
By: Zain Nabi | February 8th, 2013 | News
Microsoft and Symantec have foiled down an effort, which could have been a very huge cyber crime, by shutting down thousands of computers without the knowledge of their users, Reuters has reported. After shutting the computers, Microsoft is now offering free tools to the o...
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Startups In China Look At Other Venues To Raise Capital As IPO’s Stall
By: Talha Bhatti | February 7th, 2013 | Business, News
Chine e-Commerce portal, Taobao, is a massive online marketplace that connects small business with millions of consumers. Shoppers can usually find products like clothes, specialty paper, green tea and pet food on the site. However, a business man from Beijing saw Taobao as another marketplace. He decided to sell stock on the e-...
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Huawei 4Afrika Smartphone Launches In Africa As Part Of Microsoft Initiative
By: Talha Bhatti | February 7th, 2013 | Business, News, Smartphones
Technology is changing the world and narrowing the gap between developed and developing nation around the globe. In some cases poorer nations have been able to skip current technologies to embrace emerging technologies. A good example of this is how third world countries had rapid acceptance of mobile services as they skipped over fixed lines of communications. With new smartphones rapidly becomin...
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Amazon Stuns Users by Closing Down Canadian Newsstand Without Advance Notification
By: Jeff Stewart | February 7th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
TQ reported earlier that popular e-commerce giant, Amazon, announced its very own virtual currency by the name of Amazon Coins. Now the company has made another move but the abrupt action has shocked Canadians. According to the latest reports Amazon is clos...
