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The new Blackberry10 will look like nothing else before - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep36
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:48:17
Publish Date: 2012-10-04 19:31:42
Description: Leon and Garry discuss issues including: Apple's CEO Tim Cook publishing an open letter in which he admits that the new app "fell short" of the company's high standards and promised that the company was "doing everything." Incredibly, Cook also spends a significant portion of his letter suggesting third-party alternative apps that customers can use "while we're improving Maps" — his suggestions include apps from Bing, Mapquest, and Waze, as well as web apps from Nokia and Google. At the same time, Apple and its partners are making improvements to the underlying data supporting the new Maps app in iOS 6, relying on crowdsourced data. Google meanwhile rolls out a batch of updates to its own navigation aid. Google Maps now has 45-degree imagery for 51 cities around the world and Nokia signs a deal with Oracle to provide mapping and location services across Oracle’s range of applications. The deal will see Nokia Maps significantly expanding its user base and establishing a solid grip on the enterprise market. Samsung Electronics filing court papers accusing Apple Corp.’s iPhone 5 of infringing its patents RIM releasing its Q2 2013 financial report, claiming a loss of $235 million on revenues of $2.9 billion But the new Blackberry10 will look like nothing else before Sony is spending Y50bn ($644m) to buy a minority stake in Olympus, the rival digital camera maker disgraced by an accounting scandal last year, under a deal agreed by the two companies’ boards Kodak announcing it will cease the sale of consumer inkjet printers and cut a total of 1,200 jobs, up from the 1,000 previously announced, as the company works to restructure its business after filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. Kodak has announced it will cease the sale of consumer inkjet printers and cut a total of 1,200 jobs, up from the 1,000 previously announced, as the company works to restructure its business after filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. Google surpasses Microsoft in company value A research study by digital publisher SAY Media finding that more people are using their mobile phones to purchase goods than ever before. The White House becoming the latest target of a cyberattack. Fox News is reporting that a series of hackers have tried to infiltrate the White House’s computer system, including ones with access to nuclear information. Chinese hackers are suspected Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, three months into a nascent effort to revamp the struggling Web company, saying she could be back in the office in one week, following the birth of her first child on Sunday. Swedish retailer IKEA saying it aims to sell only LED lighting — LED bubs and lamps — and not other less efficient forms of lighting, by 2016. Google claiming it has generated $80 billion for American businesses, Web site publishers, and nonprofits in 2011, up 25 percent from 2010. Scientists proposing to a send boat-like floating probe to land on the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan
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