Microsoft is planning to build on the success of its Xbox 360 console by launching its popular Xbox Live gaming platform to iOS and Android devices. Selling more than 66 million units of Xbox 360 consoles and around 18 million units of its Kinect peripheral since its launch, Microsoft is looking to generate more revenue when it releases Xbox Live to other platforms. Xbox Live are only available to Windows Phone at this time. “While the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some...
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The World’s Top 100 Brands list was just recently released by Interbrand and found that electronics giant Apple Inc. rose up to 8th place, showing high revenue due to the increasing popularity of the company’s products. Apple Inc., which was ranked 17th last year, rose to 8th place as its value increased to $22.49 billion from $21.14 billion a year before. Google is also included in the top 10 that has direct interests in the telecommunications industry. The search giant stil ranks at number four, not moving since 2010. The...
Paddy Power, a United Kingdom-based betting company, has started taking bets on what Apple will talk about in its announcement this week in New York. The tech giant only revealed that the event will be about an “education announcement,” and techies around the world have been speculating as to what the company has in store for them. Given the event’s theme, it is rather not surprising that the most people bet on “Electronic/Digital textbooks” at 1/6, with the “iPad Lite” at second with 6/1 and the...
Diggers of software have discovered that Apple’s new iOS beta, the iOS 5.1 beta, will be supporting quad core chipsets. According to 9 to 5 Mac, a hidden panel within the code of the beta reveals the processors the iOS 5.1 can handle. The code referenced a “/cores/core.3” device, which means that its processor has four cores. “While not quite confirming that a quad-core processor will power Apple’s third-generation iPad, we have obtained evidence that suggests Apple is currently working on quad-core iOS devices,”...
Google has had a wonderful Christmas as users have activated 3.7 million Android devices on the 24th and 25th of December, according to one of the company’s executives. In a Google+ post by Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president for mobile, on December 28, he said, “There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25. Congrats team-Android!” This was after he tweeted that 700,000 Android devices are activated every day. While the exec did not break down how many were activated on Christmas Eve and how...
It would appear that the interest of Apple in touchscreen technology started almost three decades ago. An early phone prototype, dating back to 1983, was recently uncovered and sports an awesome looking touchscreen that is controlled by a stylus. The phone prototype sadly never made it into production, but was reportedly designed by Harmtut Esslinger. Esslinger was the man behind the design of the Apple IIc, which was Apple’s first attempt to make a portable computer. According to Wikipedia, Esslinger, founder of Frogdesign, has...
iPod maker Apple Inc. has been reported to be teaming up with Japanese electronics giants Sony and Hitachi to produce 4-inch touchscreen displays for a new iOS device that is set to be released next year. According to Japanese news site Macotakara.com, the two companies have done shipping the new LCD displays to Apple Inc. The site cites “sources within Apple’s Far Eastern supply chain” as the news source. If these reports are true, it would be a step further to confirming that a new iOS device, possibly the iPhone 5...
Popular coffee chain Starbucks is installing a payment system in iPhone app form to more than 700 of its branches across the United Kingdom and Ireland, following a very successful roll-out in the United States. The Starbucks payment app for the iPhone and iPod Touch will be launched on January 5th next year and will allow customers to pay for their ordered items via their smartphones. The company rolls out this service aiming to reduce transaction time by 10 seconds, which does not only provide convenience to the crew, but also the customers. “Customers...
When the late Apple co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone, he did not want it to run on any network. John Stanton, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, said that Jobs wanted to replace mobile carriers completely. Stanton, who spent a lot of time with the late Apple CEO during the development period of the iPhone, said that Jobs wanted to use Wi-Fi technology for the phone’s network. “He and I spent a lot of time talking about whether synthetically you could create a carrier using...
Despite all the rumors and purported cases that are floating around the Internet for the iPhone 5, Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S, a completely different phone from what was expected. Everybody has been led to believe that Apple will launch a revolutionary new iPhone that sports a bigger screen and a thinner body. Well, it turns out that rumors are true, according to a source close to the matter. A report by Business Insider says that the publication has received word from an unnamed source who claimed to have had used the iPhone 5 and offered...