Yesterday, we learned Apple disclosed about 4,000 to 5,000 customer data were requested by the U.S. law enforcement. Yahoo followed by revealing how many requests we made by the government: between 12,000 and 13,000 requests. The number is only for the past six months, making it higher than the requests made to Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Read more
High-tech industry association Bitkom has named computer science education as a compulsory subject in school. More and more sectors of IT specialists will be needed in the future as digitization of the economy is rapidly expanding. The future is bright for the geeks, IT specialists, and developers so as early as now, it’s best to train the young kids. Read more
Kashgar, an electronics retailer in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang has developed a new business mod Read more
Google’s very own Play Store, an obvious rival to the Apple Store, App Store, and iTunes, has been seeing good numbers of sales the past year. It’s almost more than a year since its April 2012 launch but the search giant has shown that it’s serious with the Android game, offering a slew of Samsung Galaxy models, Nexus devices, and more. Read more
We have yet to see the Galaxy S4 Zoom and S4 SLim but it looks almost real like the Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy S4 Active. Samsung is getting more aggressive each day unveiling numerous Galaxy products in very short intervals. If it’s not a phone, it’s a Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Note, or a Galaxy Camera. And does Samsung have a rival when it comes to the Galaxy camera line? I don’t think there’s a worthy contender but could Nokia be gearing up for battle with the Korean tech giant? Read more
Following Kickstarter and Indiegogo, Microsoft has launched a new similar project called the “Chip In”. The name is self-explanatory. What’s different about Chip-In is that it was launched for the benefit of the students. But no, it’s not a new platform to help students with their concepts and geeky projects. Chip In aims to help students to raise funds to buy a laptop from different OEMs. So this will benefit Microsoft more? You bet but it’s also made easier for the students to crowdfund their laptop purchases. Microsoft will be offering a 10 percent discount once crowdfunding is over. Copies of Office 365 will also be offered free for the first 10,000 students who will sign up. Read more
Mobile data spending is going up. But did you know which form of Internet media is drawing all the traffic? Videos. Thanks to YouTube for making video uploading and sharing more popular and easier to do for everyone. Now, everyone can be a star of his or her YouTube channel. Read more
Aside from the news that HTC’s COO is resigning, the Taiwanese mobile manufacturer is said to be thinking about releasing a 12-inch Windows RT tablet. It’s because demand is low so there is no point to making one. Read more
I had not idea HTC is in trouble because we’ve been hearing good things from the Taiwanese mobile company. We only hear new products being introduced but we didn’t know sales are going down the past months. It still strives to compete with Samsung but looks like it won’t happening anytime soon. To make things worse, HTC loses another executive, it’s Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello. Read more
After COO John Schappert left Zynga last year, we didn’t hear much about the company. We knew it was doing well drawing about 22 million daily active mobile users. But looks like times have rapidly changed. A little less than a year, Zynga lays off about 18 percent of employees. Read more
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