4 Reasons Why IT Matters More Than Ever
Although it’s impossible to know for sure, Ashlee might have been the victim of an overzealous headline writer. However, Carly ” Let’s Make Everyone’s Cubicle Two Feet Shorter” Fiorina, the old chief of Hewlett Packard got it right when saying that Carr was, in fact, “dead wrong”-and everyone glomming on to that Carr-Vance sound bite is wrong, too. Why? Consider the following four reasons. 1....
Apple Reports Record March Quarter Sales of iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year CUPERTINO, California—April 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter....
Nissan pins Leaf’s WattStation charging woes on a software bug, works on a fix
By Jon Fingas posted Jul 27th 2012 6:54PM GE and Nissan had previously ruled out GE’s WattStation as the cause of a few Leaf charging failures, and that story of EV tragedy looks to be winding to a close with a more definitive explanation. As the two tell us, a bug in the Leaf’s on-board charging software can damage the relevant hardware under a perfect storm of conditions: if a drivers uses a specific (but not necessarily...
MSI outs new CR41 notebook, hopes you like the color royal bronze
By Joseph Volpe posted Jul 27th 2012 7:28PM What’s rectangular, coated in a royal bronze finish, opens like a clam and lasts for up to seven and a half hours? If you answered MSI’s new CR41 notebook, you’d be right (though we would’ve accepted self-destructing jewelry boxes as an answer). The 14-inch multimedia “mobile companion,” announced just today, packs a 1,366 x 768 HD display, dedicated HM76...
5 Things OS X Mountain Lion Can Teach Windows 8
Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion will launch Wednesday, so it’s a good time for Windows users to peer across the border at what features in Mountain Lion might prove useful. Note that Windows 8 is a complete overhaul, while Mountain Lion is more of a refinement. Yet the Apple update adds lots of new features that would fit in nicely on Microsoft’s OS. In hopes of keeping alive the tradition of stolen OS features, here are...
