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Time Warner Cable: 128K viewers less, cord-cutting denied

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Time Warner Cable recently revealed its subscriber numbers for the third quarter. There are 128,000 subscribers less to its video services. The total number of users lost is 16,000, because 89,000 residential web subscribers were added. AllThingsD refers to the cord-cutting syndrome and says there are a few arguments against this trend. The syndrome involves [...]

First Edition of Sony PlayStation Vita to come soon

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Sony gave an answer to concerns regarding its PlayStation Vita by providing early adopters with a special model. Its First Edition will come with a PS Vita card with 4GB, a special-run case, as well as the mini-game Little Deviants. Exceptionally, the device will ship an entire week earlier than for normal users and will [...]

First Windows Phone from Acer: Allegro

Published on: 8th November, 2011

The Allegro smartphone of Acer is the first Windows Phone of the company. It has been confirmed for the market in European countries by its maker. The phone is known as the W4 before its arrival to India and will be sold as a low-cost handset. A unique characteristic of the new device is its [...]

Microsoft and Nokia to give out 25K Windows Phones for developers

Published on: 8th November, 2011

At Nokia World conference, Microsoft and Nokia have launched a program meant to encourage developers to write applications for Windows Phone devices. They have combined their forces to provide developers with Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phones. Developers willing to write applications for the Microsoft platform would receive about 25,000 such devices. The Lumia 800, also [...]

Homeowner in discussions with Apple regarding controversial search

Published on: 8th November, 2011

The owner of a home searched for a missing prototype of iPhone, Sergio Calderone, and Apple are in talks, as the owner’s lawyer, David Monroe, said. Monroe has declined to give any details regarding the discussions, but said that San Francisco policemen did not act properly as they did not identify two security workers at [...]

Nintendo’s loss for the first six months of 2011: $923 million

Published on: 8th November, 2011

The first half of this fiscal year has shown a significant loss for Nintendo and this could be the first loss in a thirty years history. The loss reached ¥70.27 billion, about $923 million, in a six months period that ended on the 30th of September and comes after a ¥2.01 billion loss a year [...]

T-Mobile and Google try to prevent Android hardware ban by ITC

Published on: 8th November, 2011

T-Mobile and Google attempted to prevent a possible ITC ban on HTC Android hardware with answers to ITC’s (International Trade Commission) requests for input on the win of Apple in the trade controversy before the hearing on the 6th of December. T-Mobile intended to deny an eventual ban regardless of whether the ruling upheld infringement [...]

Nintendo 3DS receives rare editions of Mario

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Nintendo has kept on adopting an aggressive marketing to increase sales of the 3DS gaming console by announcing the new range of three Mario-themed 3DS editions. Only one thousand systems of each Mario theme will be sold and there is no clue on whether they will make it outside of the native country, Japan. Every [...]

T-Mobile blames iPhone’s 3G incompatibility with its networks

Published on: 8th November, 2011

T-Mobile recently complained about the lack of an iPhone on its network. News about a regional carrier, C Spire, that was receiving the new iPhone 4S, led to questions as why T-Mobile had not picked up the new phone. The carrier reiterated its position that an iPhone would be well received in its line-up, but [...]

Only 319K applications live out of 500K on Android

Published on: 8th November, 2011

A recent analysis of research2guidance showed over 500K Android applications, but also revealed some troubles it had to sustain them the way Apple does with its iOS App Store. The 500K milestone was hit in September, but only 319,161 applications were still alive on Android’s store. Out of them, about 37 percent have been pulled [...]

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