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September 1, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Samsung has hit the drawing board on modifying their products so that they don’t get their products banned, says a news report from The Korea Times a few days ago. The newspaper cited well-known sources and indicated that it spoke to Samsung officials about their predicament. The mobile giant indicated that they were going through […]
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August 31, 2012 by Vertical Axion
The electronics company Sony has brought a new unlimited streaming service to the market by the name of Music Unlimited, a program they announced a little over a year ago. When the streaming service was discussed at the IFA consumer electronics show, there was a single price option – $9.99 – for a music streaming […]
August 29, 2012 by Vertical Axion
A social aggregator by the name of Threadsy has been acquired by Facebook as of last Friday. Threadsy was pronounced bankrupt several months ago. However, a service owned by the former company, called Swaylo, is still active and is part of the acquisition by Facebook. Swaylo is a service that allows people to view how […]
August 28, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Zynga, a game business almost completely dependent on Facebook users, has lost yet another executive this month: the vice president of mobile services and design. Ya-Bing Chu left after quarterly reports predicted a grim outlook for the struggling game company. As more people went mobile, Zynga stayed with computer platform content only, which has caused […]
August 25, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Some of the biggest news stories lately have been about hackers. Yahoo, last.fm, Match, LinkedIn – all of these websites have recently been victims of hacking attempts. Some of those hacking attempts have been successful, and these websites have had to take immediate action to counteract the damage done. Millions upon millions of accounts and […]
August 24, 2012 by Vertical Axion
In May 2011, Verizon discontinued carrying any Windows 8 based smartphones. Sales of the phone were lukewarm, at best, so Verizon ceased to carry the phone after telling Microsoft they didn’t plan to carry any more Windows-based handset. As of yesterday, however, it appears that Verizon is once again interested in carrying Windows-based cellphones based […]
August 22, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Though the numbers have fluctuated significantly in the last few months since Surface’s announcement, Microsoft has finally announced the number of tablets they expect to product off the bat: a whopping 3 million units. The estimates seem to exceed Microsoft’s online store capabilities, however. “If they build a few million units there’s no way they […]
August 21, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Lenovo has shown outstanding growth in the past few quarters, and this last one was the most impressive of them all. Lenovo reported $8 billion in sales last fiscal quarter, up from 35% during the same quarter last year. The PC maker’s profit hit $141 million, an all-time record for the small company. Lenovo owes […]
August 18, 2012 by Vertical Axion
The battle between Apple and Samsung has been going on for months now, and is finally in its last days. That doesn’t mean evidence isn’t still being presented, however, in attempts to sway the case one way or the other. Recently, Samsung brought a principal designer to the stand to testify that the Galaxy Tab […]
August 17, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Up until now, mobile payment options have been limited, and few have been cheap enough or handy enough to seriously compete with Google Wallet. However, over a dozen retailers announced earlier this week that they will be launching their own mobile-commerce business. Among the companies that made the announcement are Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and […]
August 16, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Apple continues to dominate its competition, according to the new smartphone market share data released yesterday. Apple owns some 63% of the smartphones sold by AT&T this past year, up from 44% the year previous. To compare, Apple owns around half of Verizon’s smartphones sold, and about 35% of Sprint’s. However, Samsung is gaining a […]
August 15, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Though Research In Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry handset and operating system, has adamantly denied that they will be licensing any part of the new BlackBerry system to other companies, Thorsten Heins has apparently changed his mind on the subject. QNX, BlackBerry 10’s new OS, is “already licensed across the automotive sector… we could […]
August 11, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Diablo and Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment suffered an internal network security breach earlier this week, according to a press release. Blizzard indicated that they don’t believe any sensitive information such as credit card numbers was stolen, but emails and encrypted passwords from non-China Battle.net accounts were stolen. Michael Morhaime explained the situation further in Blizzard’s […]
August 9, 2012 by Vertical Axion
In the great debate between Apple and Samsung, Apple has brought forth new evidence that Samsung did indeed copy their designs with the Galaxy Tab’s newest redesign. To further convince the courts of Samsung’s patent infringement, Apple simply pulled old designs of Samsung’s tablets before the iPad was launched. Their tablets have done a complete […]
August 7, 2012 by Vertical Axion
A recent report not only vouches for the popularity of tablets, but buyers’ satisfaction with them. Overall, a report from ComScore indicates that tablets have a higher satisfaction rating than smartphones – the total tablet satisfaction came in at 8.6/10 while smartphones came in at 8.1/10. “New TabLens data showed that tablet owners were highly […]
August 6, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Groupon, a large “group coupon” company, was recently accused of violating several patent infringements and was promptly sued. The lawsuit accuses the company of using peer-to-peer advertising that a small, lesser known company called Blue Calypso allegedly has a patent for. The small company also accused Groupon of infringing upon two other digital word-of-mouth marketing […]
August 4, 2012 by Vertical Axion
People hate meetings because the people who run them don’t know how to do so properly. Effective meetings aren’t intuitive, and bad meetings can lead to low morale and spirits. Low spirits lead to complaints, and complaints lead to overall office grumpiness. “If it weren’t for these meetings we have to go to, I’d get […]
July 31, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Nine million mobile users in Korea have recently had critical data stolen from their devices. Korea now says that they know the hackers involved and have placed them under arrest. Both hackers are currently nameless, but one has been accused of selling the stolen data to telemarketers. The data that was sold to telemarketers allegedly […]
July 28, 2012 by Vertical Axion
A few years ago, data was released that had been gathered from Google’s Street View. The U.K. believes that some of the information was too sensitive to put up on public views of their streets, and went to court with Google about it shortly after the map project was complete. Britain agreed to let Google […]
July 27, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Facebook has been struggling to stay afloat since its IPO event a few months ago. In the last three days, Zuckerberg has lost $3 billion from his own personal net worth, bringing it down to a total of $11.8 billion. When Facebook went public, the founder was worth nearly $20 billion. Several things have contributed […]
July 26, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Sprint recently shut down its Nextel network, its Network Vision project, and withdrew its investment in Clearwire. Because of these massive changes, Sprint reported a loss of $1.37 billion (46 cents a share) on revenue of nearly 9 billion. This is significantly higher than ten months ago when it reported a loss of $863 million […]
Samsung’s total number of smartphones shipped last quarter was nearly double that of Apple’s shipped phones, quarterly reports and Juniper Research indicate. Samsung estimates they shipped some 52.1 million smartphones worldwide, while Apple shipped only 26 million. BlackBerry only managed to ship 7.4 million units, and Nokia shipped around 10.2 million. However, the units that […]
July 25, 2012 by Vertical Axion
Google paid quite the premium some months ago to acquire Motorola Mobility. Yesterday, Google filed a document with the SEC to outline the exact worth of Motorola Mobility and what the search giant paid for each individual faucet. $2.9 billion of the purchase price covered Motorola’s cash, $730 million for customer relationships, $670 million for […]
The iPod has long been associated with the resurrection of Apple itself; however, it now seems to be fading out of popularity, a recent quarterly report indicates. Last quarter, 6 million iPods were sold, compared to 4 million Mac computers. The iPad blew them both out of the water with sales over 17 million, and […]
