Samsung Expects Galaxy S To Lead Fast Sales Growth
Samsung Electronics is predicting it will sell 20 million to 25 million smartphones that year. The company plus aims to ship 50 million smartphones in 2011, J.K. Shin, the president of Samsung’s mobile communications division, told South Korean media outlet EDaily on Friday.
Shin said Samsung’s robust smartphone sales predictions are b…
Verizon Offers Prepaid goods Plans on Top Phones
In what could be the first phase of a transformation in the way its smartphone users pay for Net use, the nation’s biggest carrier, Verizon Wireless, has introduced prepaid info plans. The no-contract plans, which go into effect Sept. 28, offer unlimited 3G access on choose handsets for $30 per month, or $10 per month for 25 megabytes, with a…
Chrome Browser Updated After Two Years of Growth
Google’s Chrome browser is now two years old, and the youngster — and its proud parent — are celebrating its steady rise in popularity. According to Net Applications, Chrome had 7.5 percent of the browser market in August — putting it in third place behind Microsoft’s World Wide Web Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox…
Nvidia Shows New GPUs Offered in Upcoming Laptops
New notebooks with the Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics processing units (GPUs) are being released that fall, and on Friday the chipmaker introduced the new chips at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. The new series includes the GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M for enthusiasts, and the GT 445M, 435M, 425M, 420M, and 415M for p…
Consumer Watchdog Attacks Google in Times Square
Consumer Watchdog is attacking Google in a very public way — with a Jumbotron digital advertisement in New York’s Times Square. The missive comes in the scheme of an animated satirical video that portrays how the group sees Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s stance on consumer privacy.
Entitled Don’t Be Evil? the avatar-style animat…
Spammers Take by Apple’s New Ping Social Network
Apple launched iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network, on Wednesday. Within hours, the site fell victim to spammers looking to produce a quick buck from Apple’s unsuspecting 160 million music lovers exploring the new way to discover what music their friends are listening to.
Ping was heralded as the future of social commerc…
FCC Rejects Free Wireless Service Proposal
Federal regulators have shot down a proposal by a startup called M2Z Networks Inc. to build a free, nationwide wireless broadband network using a spare slice of airwaves.
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday said it has rejected M2Z’s inquiry that the agency demand that the winner of an auction for the radio spectrum supply fre…
