Social Media Blog

Sharing Information & Knowledge

Oct
11

By

IPhone 4S Pre-Orders Break Record – 1 MILLION SOLD IN 24 HOURS

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...

Image via CrunchBase

Apple says first-day pre-orders of the iPhone 4S topped 1 million, breaking the record set by last year’s model.

Apple Inc. and various phone companies in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain started taking orders for the phone last Friday. It hits stores this Friday.

The base model of the iPhone 4S costs $200 with a two-year contract. It has a faster processor and an improved camera compared to last year’s model. However, some customers and investors were disappointed that Apple didn’t launch a more radical new model. It’s been more than a year since Apple since the previous model was released.

Despite the record-breaking pace of iPhone 4S pre-orders, it’s hard to determine whether consumer demand is stronger for the new device than it was for previous versions. Although first-day orders for the iPhone 4 were 600,000 when it launched last year, Australia and Canada weren’t among the launch countries then – they got the phone a month later.

Sep
30

By

LinkedIn is An Email Inbox Flooding Service – Jon Stewart

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Jon Stewart reacting to a George W. Bush clip ...

Image via Wikipedia

Earlier in the week, Barack Obama visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of business-orientated social network LinkedIn, which hosted a town hall-style meeting to promote the president’s new jobs bill. The irony of talking about how to find jobs at a company that helps people find jobs was not lost on Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show.”

Stewart noted that many audience participants said they or someone close to them were unemployed. LinkedIn, Stewart said, had clearly not worked for the town hall attendees, and he claimed not to know what the service is designed to do for people who use it.

“I thought [LinkedIn] was an email inbox flooding service whose sole purpose in life was to remind me that a guy I went to high school with would like me to join LinkedIn so I can spam everyone I ever met,” Stewart said in his opening segment, making reference to LinkedIn’s infamous email invites, designed to kickstart the user’s network of connections and encourage new interactions on the site.

Sep
29

By

Kindle Fire Vs. Apple IPad

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment

Image representing iPad as depicted in CrunchBase

Image via CrunchBase

At first glance, the Amazon Kindle Fire doesn’t appear to be an iPad killer. When you compare the hardware and technical specs of the new Amazon tablet next to those of the Apple tablet, there doesn’t seem to be much of a comparison: Apple’s 10-inch, 16GB iPad is a far cry from the 7-inch, 8GB first-generation Kindle Fire.

And yet the fact is that, at the end of the day, they’re both tablets, which means that consumers will probably be choosing between one or the other when it comes time to get a tablet. Unless you’re doing really well this recession, it would be hard to justify shelling out money for both an iPad (starting at $499) and a Kindle Fire (which costs $199, less than half of what it costs for Apple’s tablet).

Sep
22

By

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Coming Very Very Soon

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment

The Start screen of Windows Phone 7

Image via Wikipedia

The iPhone 5 isn’t the only upcoming smartphone news of the day: Windows has announced on its official blog that the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.5 (codename: Mango), an update to its mobile operating system, will be released “in the next week or two.”

Windows Mango is the follow-up to the Windows Phone 7 OS, and the interface and many of the newest features will look familiar to those who have seen the “Metro View” on the new Windows 8 desktop and tablet operating system.

Among the new features on the smartphone OS: Total social media integration with the phone, with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn updates mashed together in a “People” hub; more moving “Live Tiles” to make the phone’s front screen more active; a native “Local Search” app through Bing, which will search for businesses and things to do around the owner using the phone’s GPS; and an integrated Messaging hub, where users can switch between email, text message, Facebook chat and other messenger services with the same person’s linked accounts.

Mango and Windows Phone have an uphill battle to knock off smartphone kings Android and iPhone: At just six percent market penetration, Windows Phone lags behind Google’s Android OS (40 percent) and Apple’s iOS (26.5 percent) by a wide margin,according to a June 2011 comScore survey. Microsoft hopes to build on the momentum of its flashy Windows 8 announcement and positive early buzz surrounding Windows Phone Mango to make up that ground.

Sep
15

By

Nude Scarlett Johansson pictures – hacker blamed

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Scarlett Johansson.

Image via Wikipedia

The FBI are once again investigating reports that nude photos of a famous celebrity have been leaked onto the web.

Twitter was ablaze earlier today with messages claiming to link to naked pictures of film actress Scarlett Johansson, which were allegedly stolen from her iPhone by a hacker earlier this year.

The photographs may or may not be of Scarlett Johansson, but I would suggest that every hot-blooded male exercises some restraint as it’s extremely possible that cybercriminals might exploit the interest to post dangerous links on the web designed to infect computers or steal information.

Of course, Scarlett Johansson isn’t the first celebrity to have fallen victim to a nude photo hacker.

Nude photos and videos of Vanessa Hudgens, the star of “High School Musical“, surfaced on the net earlier this year, after it was claimed the actress’s Gmail account was hacked.

Sep
12

By

The 9 Most Valuable Tech Brand In The U.S.A

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment

vote symbol: information

Image via Wikipedia

Brand Finance, a consulting agency specializing in brand valuation, has released its “Brand Finance Global 100” report ranking the world’s most valuable brands.

This annual list is compiled to supplement the “Brand Finance Global 500,” which was released back in March. To create its ranking, the agency evaluates companies and awards points based on a brand value index, which is defined as “a benchmarking study of the strength, risk and future potential of a brand relative to its competitor set as well as a brand value: a summary measure of the financial strength of the brand.”

We won’t give away the most valuable brand (you’ll have to view the slideshow to find out), but we will say that it’s a tech company that ranked first in both the United States and the rest of the world in Brand Finance’s previous release. The new report also reflects several big changes that have taken place since earlier in 2011.

« Older Posts
Newer Posts »
Close