Samsung has sold more than 200 million Galaxy S smartphones
Want to know how big a player Samsung is in the smartphone market? The company now says that it’s sold over 200 million Galaxy S phones since the line first went on the market in 2010. For reference, the Korean tech giant had notched up sales of 100 million Galaxy S devices as of slightly more than a year ago. Samsung isn’t breaking down the sales by model, although it had sold over 40 million Galaxy S 4s as of last fall...
IBM bets $1 billion on PaaS to boost cloud apps
Unsatisfied with the rate of cloud application development, IBM announced on Monday that it is putting $1 billion behind its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy in hopes of encouraging software makers to build many more apps for the cloud and to migrate existing ones there. Read more here: IBM bets $1 billion on PaaS to boost cloud apps
Yahoo Tech Reviews the New Mac Pro
The new Mac Pro is an insanely powerful, expensive computer ($3,000 and up — way up). It’s designed for high-end tasks: video, photo and music editing, for example. Medical work. Scientific simulations. Designers who want to connect five or six screens. And it has the most Applish design Apple has ever done. It’s an out-there, controversial, very brave trashing of everything we ever knew about desktop computer shapes. It’s not beige....
Samsung Galaxy S5 launching on April 11th in 150 countries
Samsung has just announced that the Galaxy S5 will be available starting April 11th in 150 countries. Over here in the US, it’ll be available on Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS and U.S. Cellular. Ma Bell is going one step further, offering up the Gear 2 and the Gear Fit smartwatches as well. If you’d rather go elsewhere for your mobile needs, retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack,...
Lacking an integrated design, Intel’s Merrifield smartphone chip isn’t poised for success
Intel is sharing new information about Merrifield, its next-generation Atom chip for smartphones, at Mobile World Conference this week, and if the processor conforms to historical precedent, it won’t sell well. Both Merrifield, a dual-core chip, and Moorestown, a quad-core iteration, are optimized for low battery life and Intel’s complementary LTE radios, and include a sensor package for handheld applications. See more...
