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Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

By Sumaira Bajwa • May 27th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world’s biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.
Apple’s shares rose as much 2.8 percent on Nasdaq on Wednesday, as Microsoft [...]



Why the iPAD Will Change Everything

By Sumaira Bajwa • Mar 30th, 2010 • Category: Technology

What’s the big deal about Apple’s iPad, currently arriving in stores on the biggest wave of hype since, well, Apple’s iPhone? The easy answer is that the iPad comes from Apple, and we always expect big things from Apple because it is run by Steve Jobs, whose California garage was the birthplace of the personal [...]



Apple admits using child labour

By Sumaira Bajwa • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Technology

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
Apple also has factories working for it in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the [...]



Console Mania

By The Partylicious • Oct 6th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Listing down the most anticipated games of Fall 2009!



Switching from Blackberry to iPhone

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Technology

The old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence can be extended to our technology cravings. Even the person holding the shiniest new gadget can’t help but eye a neighbor who has a different device and wonder, “What does that do that mine doesn’t?”
Thoughts like these are especially [...]



iPod is Dying, Really?

By Sharafat • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Technology

During its quarterly earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer focused a lot of attention on what the company is now calling its “pocket products.” That is, the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPod. You’ll notice that Apple has taken to separating out the iPod touch from the rest of the iPod line. And [...]



iPhone 3G S Sales Forecast: Half a Million Sold This Weekend

By Sharafat • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Technology

How many iPhone 3G Ss will Apple (AAPL) sell this weekend? 500,000, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who says early sales will be slower than those of the 3G thanks to a dramatic change in value proposition and a launch limited to 8 countries.
“In 2008, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G at $199, a 50 [...]



‘You’ve got to find what you love,’

By Zahid Abdullah • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.



The Cell Tolls for Thee

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

i WAS GOING THROUGH THIS ARTICLE ON MSN AND WHICH I FOUND INTERESTED TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU .
“The truth about the cell-phone–cancer link and what it means for you and your kids
By Julie A. Evans, Best Life”

When Vini Khurana, PhD, an Australian (and Mayo Clinic–trained) neurosurgeon, announced that the link between cell-phone use [...]



Expectations of Market

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 14th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

When a product or service is launched, people often show awe because it rose above their expectations, or they just show utter despair, as the it didn’t even do what it expected to do, or they just go along as they know that the product or service just do what it was expected to do.
The [...]