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Marketing manager with Hewlett Packard's South Pacific division for inkjet and web solutions, Paul Gracey - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep18
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:50:50
Publish Date: 2012-06-01 00:41:15
Description: Interview with Paul Gracey, marketing manager with Hewlett Packard's South Pacific division for inkjet and web solutions. Leon and Garry discuss issues including: Yahoo launching its own browser Axis Facebook releasing a "camera" application that lets people take Instagram-style pictures which can be shared with iPhones. Reports that Facebook is building a smart phone and that Facebook may acquire Norwegian browser maker Opera Software, developer of the Opera and Opera Mini browsers for desktops and mobile phones. All coinciding with Facebook’s share price collapsing. Amazon has just announced the launch of Instant Videos for Xbox 360. LG has introduced an impressive new smartphone display, expected to come to new handsets in the second half of 2012. The panel is five inches across, and features a pixel density of 440ppi with an aspect ratio of 16:9, capable of displaying 1080p HD content. Apple is dominating the mobile PC space with 22.5% of the market share. Samsung followed Apple with 7.5 per cent of all tablet shipments. Apple has submitted an application to patent an "optical stylus" for use with future touch based devices, leading to speculation that the next iPhone or iPad could include stylus support. A complex targeted virus has been discovered stealing data in the Middle East. The malware dubbed Flame appears to be state sponsored. There are reports that Microsoft's $15 Windows 8 Pro upgrade offer will run from June 2nd to January 31st, 2013. Microsoft Store customers who purchase a Windows 7 PC from June 2nd will be offered a Windows 8 Pro upgrade for only $14.99. Samsung has launched an online music streaming service called Music Hub. It’s an all-in-one assault on all the major online music selling formats, offers streaming, radio recommendations, storing your own music in the cloud and a music store. It’s free. Google and its partner, Samsung have launched a new Chromebook and Chromebox, targeting them at the educational and corporate customers. According to a report in the Financial Times this week, the European Union has found evidence that the Chinese government has been providing illegal subsidies to Huawei and ZTE, enabling them to undercut their rivals in international markets. Optus is within inches of picking up $800 million from NBNCo in exchange for closing down its hybrid fibre cable networks in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and offering its cable customers to the NBN. The ACCC has issued a provisional determination approving the deal. It looks like Cisco underestimated the huge demand from corporate employees to use their private mobile consumer devices – meaning iPads and smartphones – in their work environments. Research In Motion, the company that makes the Blackberry, foreshadows a loss and is planning to cut at least 2000 staff as part of a global restructuring plan. The era of the credit card is coming to an end as PayPal makes deals with 15 US retailers including Toys R Us, J C Penney and Barnes and Noble that will allow consumers to pay for purchases with their mobile phones
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