In the last two years, more and more services for ocation-sharing have been showing up, i.e., sharing one’s own palce with others. Not exactly surprising, but the question “Where are you?” is apparently the most commonly asked in mobile calls. Services such as Gowalla, Four Square, or even Facebook provide Places but only the so-called …
Monthly Archive: January 2011
Jan 21
Apple’s record quarter
With the newest, unusually good quarterly results, the interim Apple CEO Tim Cook caught a good start. “We had a phenomenal holiday season with record sales for Mac, iPhone and iPad” said Steve Jobs. It was not only the classic Christmas sales with consumers of which Apple has benefited. A closer look at the figures …
Jan 20
CeBIT 2011: New Acer Tablets
At CeBIT, Acer was promoting Tablet PCs, including a device with the Android operating system, a 10.1-inch touch screen with HD resolution, HDMI port, optional WLAN and UMTS. The housing is made of aluminum and is 13.3 millimeters high. A gyro sensor ensures that the Tablet works nicely as a mobile gaming console. The launch …