Archive for April, 2011
Posted on April 8, 2011 with Comments Off
Just last month, a probe team asked a number of Android developers to submit privacy information for a federal grand jury. Pandora Radio is one of the said companies and now, Veracode confirms that Pandora is sending user data that could be used by third party ad servers.
Data such as sex, GPS information, birthdates and more are being sent knowingly by Pandora in exchange for who knows what to different ad sites. Pandora defends this by saying that they were collecting personal information for the purpose of making the Pandora music experience more personal but Veracode begs to differ. If the jury finds Pandora guilty, it would mean a lot of penalties if not foreclosure.
Posted on April 6, 2011 with Comments Off
A report from Digitimes says that Apple delivered a total of 2.4-2.6 million units of the iPad 2 in March alone. This figure is expected to go up to 4-4.3 million every month for this year.This is good news for shareholders as Apple has never failed to deliver with every product they released.
iPad 2 units sales in the second quarter alone is expected to reach up to 12 million units. It is highly possible that the tablet will once again lead the tablet market share like its predecessor did in 2010.
The iPad 2 which is sporting an A5 processor is praised by consumers and techies alike as it produced speeds of up to 9x faster than the original iPad.
Posted on April 4, 2011 with Comments Off
Texas Instruments in line with its plan to expand its chip portfolio buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion. Texas Instruments is known to produce chips for a number of mobile phones including Optimus 3D. By acquiring National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments will have access to the former’s 12,000 analog products and design tools.
A statement from TI’s chairman, Rich Templeton says that the company believes that it could magnify National Semiconductor’s sales with TI’s salesforce and thus producing substantial returns on their investment.
Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, they’re all what’s powering our smartphones and it looks like we could expect the race to produce better chipsets to heat up as they expand.