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Product manager at Opera Software, Phillip Gronvold - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep13
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:30:47
Publish Date: 2012-04-27 00:51:47
Description: Interview with Phillip Gronvold, product manager at Opera Software, speaking from Norway. Leon and Garry talk about issues including: Apple’s fiscal second-quarter profit jumping 94 per cent as the consumer electronics giant reported strong sales of its iPhone and iPad products. The latest results come after Apple reported a blockbuster first-quarter, hitting new sales and profit records. Chinese networking giant Huawei has posted net profit of 11.6 billion yuan ($A1.78 billion) for the 2011 calendar year, thanks to significant growth in the company’s consumer and enterprise businesses. Facebook reports a lower profit in the lead up to its IPO Microsoft, which just bought patents from AOL for $US1 billion ($A967 million), is turning around and selling most of them to Facebook for $US550 million. Designers at Colorado State University are developing solar-powered clothes from natural fibres that can charge a number of devices, including phones, tablets and GPS units. Version 1.0 of Skype is now available in the Windows Phone Planetary Resources, a company in Seattle, plans to use rocket-borne robots to mine precious metals from asteroids. Former astronaut Tom Jones, veteran of four space missions and an adviser to the company, says the aim is to extract gold, platinum and rocket fuel from the barren space rocks. Ten Network will launch its first internet channel on a smart TV late next month as part of the network’s strategy to create access to its programs across multiple platforms. Ten has partnered with Sony for a catch-up TV service on the manufacturer’s internet-enabled Bravia television sets and Blu-ray players. Target has a new employee - a 3D body scanner, right - charged with making sure clothes fit better. The national retailer is spending $1 million on the technology that will measure the dimensions of 20,000 men and women as part of a national survey to update their designs. Vodafone has signed a deal to buy communications provider Cable and Wireless Worldwide for just over £1bn. Nokia has started the construction of a manufacturing facility in Vietnam, with plans to have it up and running by early 2013. Oracle and Google went at it in the courtroom this week, with both companies' CEOs taking the witness stand for testimony. AusBBS is set to become one of Australia’s first NBN based virtual internet service providers (ISP) with the start-up securing its first round of funding. The founding of AusBBS serves as a footnote to increased competition that the NBN is expected to bring to Australia’s ISP market. Microsoft is taking on Dropbox. It is shaking things up with SkyDrive. And Google is doing the same with Google Drive. The Samsung Galaxy S III, set to be unveiled on May 3rd, has just been spotted briefly on Amazon Germany. The Amazon-leaked Galaxy S III was listed with a 4.7in Super AMOLED screen and a whopping 12MP camera.
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