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TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| October 16, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
A slower week for technology this week, not to say that there aren’t some interesting stories – the business news this week was largely characterised by the BlackBerry service outage, and Apple has released some important security updates which are worth looking at. Additionally, the iPhone 4S went on sale, iOS 5 and iCloud became available, HTC announced a phone which is practically a tablet, and Google is finally canning Buzz. Read on for all this and more. Business Microsoft has closed its $8.5bn deal to purchase Skype. The deal was announced earlier this year in May, and will see Skype become an entirely new division of Microsoft under current Skype CEO Tony Bates. Skype had previously been purchased by… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| August 7, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Keep an eye out below this week for plenty of interesting developments in the technology world! In business, we have some news about Twitter and Facebook, while on the legal front we take a look at patents and the UK government’s new stance on copyright. Then there’s some important information about hacking & security, and quite a few announcements about new games and products. It’s been a busy week. Business Arguably the most important piece of business news this week was the announcement that Twitter, the increasingly popular microblogging site, has raised $800m in venture funding, half of which will be spent on employees and shareholders. This latest round of fundraising was led by Russian firm DST Global, which has also… more
Apple announces Lion, iOS 5, iCloud at WWDC
| June 7, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
On Monday morning Apple held the opening keynote for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where Steve Jobs and other executives announced more details about Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, and introduced Apple’s new cloud-storage and syncing service, iCloud. Lion After an introduction by Jobs, Phil Schiller took the stage first to highlight some of the 250 new features in Lion, which will be the eighth iteration of Mac OS X and which clearly represents the company’s move towards combining their desktop and mobile operating systems as they follow the trend Microsoft set last week at D9. According to figures given by Apple, Mac sales have now outpaced the PC market for 5 years and 73% of these sales… more
What can we expect from WWDC?
| June 1, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
The Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, is Apple’s annual event for talking to developers and showcasing their latest software developments. As usual the company’s shroud of secrecy has been lifted only at the very last moment, but with just one week to go we finally have a press release with some information about what to expect; until now, nobody even knew what time the conference would begin. The statement, released May 31st, confirms that WWDC will focus on three main topics: Lion, the eighth version of Mac OS X; iOS 5, the upcoming version of Apple’s mobile operating system; and a mysterious, hitherto unconfirmed service known only as iCloud. There will also be an opening keynote presented by CEO Steve… more
