American company, iSuppli, took an inside look at the Nexus One phone from Google, manufactured by HTC. It turns out that the price for all parts accumulate to $174.15. The most expensive part is the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm which apparently accounts for around $31. The 3.7″ AMOLED screen from Samsung is estimated at … Read more →
The world-known App Store from Apple, I think it’s safe to say by now, just reached 3 billion downloads. In April 2009, nine months after launch, App Store reached 1 billion downloads and now they just reached the 3 billion downloads mark. App Store is 18 months old now and with a total of 3 … Read more →
One month ago I wrote about a new cookie law, already approved in the EU, which would require user consent before a website is allowed to place cookies on the users computer. Even though the law was actually already approved, it was not carried into effect yet and thank god for that. Had it been, … Read more →
According to Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review.com, Foxconn has started production of the new iPhone. Foxconn already produces several products from Apple in its factories. Eldar released this information on his Twitter profile recently, saying that: Foxconn received order for next generation iphone He doesn’t yet know the specifications on this new iPhone but he claims … Read more →
I have nothing against the Chinese people or China for that matter – except for one little thing, that I tend to mock every now and then: The Great Firewall of China. Yeah, the one that makes a “tiananmen square protest” Google Image search look like this: According to news agency Xinhua, a hot line … Read more →
Time, the publisher, has revealed their vision for how magazines will look in the near future. So near, that the concept could actually become true already next year. Check out the video below and see some of the similarities on how it works compared to the iPhone. Rumors has it (of course!) that Time has … Read more →
A survey, paid for by Microsoft, shows that if you’re a Google user and tries out Bing, there’s a 66% chance you will stick with Bing for your future Internet searching needs. How was the study conducted? Well, 15 Google users were told not to use any other search engine than Bing, for a whole … Read more →
The antivirus experts at CA have stumbled upon a new trojan horse in the “ransomware” category. That’s the category for software that will demand a ransom, as the name implies. This Russian trojan horse appears to be a download manager called “uFast Download Manager”. Once you launch it, a message will inform you that you’ve … Read more →
A survey made by an American electronics insurance company, SquareTrade, reports that 33% of all laptops break within just three years. Hardware issues makes up for 66% of those cases. Cheap netbooks (small notebooks) are even more likely to break, in fact the failure rate is 20% higher and the chance of hardware failure is … Read more →
Rumors have launched the Apple “iTablet” several times already, but it never showed. Now Digitimes reveals that Apple delayed the tablet till late 2010 as they want to swap some of the components and launch a model with 9.7″ OLED screen from LG instead. OLED screens are still very expensive but prices are expected to … Read more →
I’m not a huge gamer. I mean, I can play a little PlayStation every now and then, but for the past few years it’s mostly been Uncharted: Drakes Fortune and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare. Well, that was last year. This year it has been Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and soon, Call Of Duty: Modern … Read more →
Apple has taken over Nokia, when looking at profit by selling cellphones, according to a recent study by Strategy Analytics. With operating profits in the third quarter of $1.6 billion (estimated by Strategy Analytics), they made more money by Nokia with $1.1 billion. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones during the third quarter (July-September), generating sales … Read more →
“Unfriend”. One of the new buzz words in 2009, thanks to the social media explosion. We all know what it means to “google it”. It means to go online and search for something (on Google, since I don’t think it’s possible to “google something” on Bing…). For Twitter users, “unfollow” has also grown to be … Read more →
Over the past week I’ve answered a few questions in the comments here at TechPatio, asking if the speed of a website has anything to do with how it will rank in Google. My responses were, basically, “no, I don’t believe that is the case”. With the recent comments from Matt Cutts, “the face of … Read more →
Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →
Sony just confirmed that Facebook is coming for the PlayStation 3, after several pictures revealed the social network on a PS3 a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter is already scheduled to be released for Xbox 360 in a software update November 17th. There’s still no news about when Facebook for PlayStation 3 will be … Read more →