Sunday, October 5, 2014

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Microsoft earns $1bn per year from Samsung

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 02:02 PM PDT

Microsoft may not be raking in the cash from its own mobile output, but the company is doing pretty well from everyone else. Ironically, the software giant started to focus on hardware to keep pace with rivals, but the company's hardware has not sold well, while its mobile software continues to be a money spinner. The latest news is that Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion last year in patent royalties, but the Korean company is looking to end the payments.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook praises Steve Jobs three years after his death

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 01:42 PM PDT

Apple co-founder and driving force Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th 2011, and nearly three years on to the day the current CEO, Tim Cook, has remembered the man who made much of Apple's success possible. Jobs named Cook as his successor before his untimely death at the age of 56 and Cook has issued an email in remembrance of the man credited as the driving force behind Apple's "i" revolution.
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OnePlus One now available to everyone

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 09:26 AM PDT

OnePlus may finally be getting its s**t together after the company behind the very good OnePlus One smartphone has put its pre-order plan into action. Yes, after all the waiting, messing around, disastrous PR, and much more, the OnePlus One is finally available for anyone who wants one. About bloody time.
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TESCO reveals the Hudl 2 tablet

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 06:24 AM PDT

Not everyone will be familiar with TESCO, a UK based retailer that started as a supermarket chain. However, the company is the second biggest retailer in the world behind Walmart and has branched out into consumer electronics. Last year the company's budget Hudl tablet caused a stir in the UK and Europe because of its decent quality and because it was very affordable.
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Google wanted Cyanogen for $1 billion

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 05:57 AM PDT

Google does not like forked Android systems because they cannot have control with their apps on the software, and the company makes no excuses about this. Sundar Pichai, the head of Android has said Amazon's take on the platform is not something they want to associate with, but it seems Cyanogen's is. It has been reported today that Google sounded out the Seattle based Cyanogen Inc. over a potential takeover, with the mooted price set at $1 billion.
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