Della is a specialty website operated by Dell Computers with the female population in mind.
The site is so female oriented and comes with tips like calorie counting, the right way to store memory cards or shopping videos that some may have actually taken offense and believes that the site is patronizing and gender bias.
Have you ever had a unique, successful Google experience? You may want to share this one by writing it down or posting a video. Google invites you to do it at this site.
This was inspired from one Google user who wrote the company saying —
"I will always remember the very first day I got Internet at home. I had not seen my father in 17 years and had no clue where he was. The very first web page I went to was Google, and I simply wrote his name in the search box, and guess what? A public announcement from the government dated four years back mentioned him as promoted! I called the person who wrote the announcement, and by luck, she worked one floor up from my father’s office. She transferred me directly to him, and we started talking. We have been in touch since then, and it’s great!"Contribute yours here.
I haven’t had luck like this with Google but I do use the search engine to look for names and addresses of people I need to get in touch with for non life changing matters and the searches always helped.
Following the higly anticipated releases of the latest iPhone this summer, Apple has recently bought 100Million 8GB NAND flash chips from Samsung. Rumors say, this is going to be use for the latest iPhone’s storage capacity, a likely 32GB memory capacity.
The new hardware is expected to be announced in June at the annual developers conference sponsored by the company.
According to a data from NPD, sales of PCs for the month of February has met an increase while Apple gadgets have been failing. Windows laptops were up by at least 36% against Macbook’s decrease at 7%. Desktops though fell by 10% and 36% respectively.
The full story after the cut…
We are all very well aware of the dangers of video game addiction. It eats one up psychologically, emotionally, mentally and the most obvious manifestation of all — physically.
The British Journal of Dermatology recently came out with a report that too much addiction to game consoles may have caused the development of this new skin disease. It has been identified as PlayStation palmar hidradenitis, a condition in which the palms become painful and sore from handling the control pads all the time.
In fact, according to the report, a 12 year old girl recently suffered from this and was treated at a Swiss hospital. Her treatment also involved an abstinence from playing video games for 10 days.
A report from Apple Insider shows that a lot of iPhone owners have a tendency to download tons of iPhone applications but over time, never gets to use them. It apparently seems that users actually forget about having downloaded the stuff online. This downloads are mostly free applications.
The report, done by Pinch Media, also shows, game applications are the ones downloaded the most, followed by sports and entertainment related applications.
Data was gathered from over 30 Million application download tracking.
Expected or surprised?
According to The Wall Street Journal, sales for Apple in the month of January 2009 fell by 6% when compared to figures from the same month in 2009. Apparently, Apple’s pricey computer models are turning away many consumers, especially in this time of the recession.
Apple Inc.’s unit sales of computers through U.S. retail channels fell 6% in January from the same month in 2008, the first monthly decline in three years, according to market-research firm NPD Group.
The data suggest that Apple’s premium pricing, which helped boost revenue when demand was strong, may be hurting the company now that consumers are being more careful about their spending amid the recession.
Demand for Apple’s laptop computers, in particular, had remained relatively solid for months despite the economic downturn as consumers were willing to pay higher prices for a sleek design and unique operating system. But NPD analyst Stephen Baker said consumers are becoming more price-sensitive as the economic climate continues to worsen.
“Casual buyers or people who are trying to make a choice are trading down,” Mr. Baker said.
NPD compiles estimates of sales through U.S. retailers, including Apple’s company-owned stores and Web site. The firm estimates that the dollar value of Apple’s sales through U.S. retail channels fell 11% during the month, faster than the decline in unit sales. Its market share, measured in dollars, declined to 13.7% from 16.4% in January 2008, NPD said.
This news should fuel the rumors of Apple’s plan to lower prices and release cheaper gadgets by summer of 2009.
The government of India plans to produce the world’s cheapes laptop available to every citizen within the next six months. A prototype of it was launched early this week, and the laptop is expected to run for about $6-$10 only. Imagine that!!!!
In spite the recession, DVD rental and internet streaming facilities offered by Netflix rose to about 18,000 customers at the end of last year’s fourth quarter. However, this report says that when it comes to DVD use or rental, the company is seeing a trend these days. Internet streaming seems to be pushing its customers to watch DVD less and less.
This is indeed a big breaking story, but one that gadget geeks expect nonetheless.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Chief Executive and the person responsible for making Apple what it is today, is taking a leave of absence.
It has long been rumored the honcho is battling health problems. In the last Macwold event where he usually presents to the public the latest from Apple, Tim Cook has to stand in for him and do the presentations.
The big boss is sick. Some quarters are saying that it may be something more serious than we can ever imagine. The memo he released to his staff is right after the cut…
We wish him well and get well soon, Mr. Jobs!
Windows 7 Beta has been released last week and it will hopefully fix whatever it is most people did not like about the Vista. I, in fact, have never stuck with the Vista, so maybe this new one will be something I can work with.
The new Windows supposedly promises “less crashing”…and that’s something I wanna see for myself! It also has integrated new features for absorbing social networking sites, which everyone seems to be on these days.
While the software is still in beta phase, operating it is still not in full form and right now, there is no on call support system for it. It is suggested that if you want to fiddle with Windows 7, don’t use your main computer.
To learn more about this, you can head on to Technet for more information.
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