Facebook finished out its first day of public trading down by $4 (£2.5) from a strong opening around $42 (£26) to around $38(£24) by the sound of the bell. The cost plummeted to $38 just before noon before making a steady rise in the afternoon and eventually falling back down back to $38, the same [...]
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Samsung to bring more RAM to every mobile
Samsung is about to help the whole of the mobile market, as it readies a new memory chip for handsets. Not only is Samsung responsible for the likes of the Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note and most recently the Galaxy S3, it also produces a wide array of components which are used by all mobile manufacturers. [...]
Are these the Canon 650D specs?
Suggestions that Canon will announce a new camera to sit in its entry level line-up are increasing by the day. Recently rumoured specs for a Canon EOS 650D/Rebel T4i, to replace the 15 month old 600D include an 18 million pixel sensor and a touchscreen LCD. It’s not known whether the sensor will be a [...]
Best Buy drops iPhone 4 price to $50
iPhone prices have been dropping like flies this month, with Best Buy the latest retailer to join in with its own deal on the iPhone 4. Starting this week, Best Buy is offering its stock of 8GB iPhone 4 handsets for $50. The deal is good on both black and white models of the iPhone [...]
Official: Facebook to sell shares at $38, values company at $104bn
Facebook will officially begin trading at $38 per share on Friday morning in what will be the biggest IPO ever from an internet company. After months of speculation, and a week of last minute adjustments from Facebook, Friday’s listing on the NASDAQ index will raise $16 billion for Mark Zuckerberg’s company. The CEO himself, who [...]
Are you ready for iTV-Commerce?
One in four people will regularly use interactive TV – something we’re dubbing iTV-Commerce – to shop by the end of 2014, generating direct sales worth nearly £750m. The rise of the Internet connected TV will make it the most influential of five emerging new technologies identified in an eBay-commissioned study carried out by retail [...]
Valve’s remote Steam download feature leaves beta, gets official
Now you can download games on Steam no matter where you are so that they’re ready and raring to play when you get home, as Valve’s remote Steam download service has left beta. You’ll have to leave Steam running on your PC or Mac while you’re elsewhere to allow you to log in to Steam [...]
Hands-on review: Sony NEX-F3
At first glance, the Sony NEX-F3 looks very similar to the Sony NEX-C3 that it replaces, but we discovered there are a few key differences when we used a pre-production sample. At 16.1 million, the new compact system camera (CSC)’s effective pixel count, for example, is near identical to the Sony NEX-C3′s 16.2 million pixels, [...]
Did Steve Jobs’s own words damn Apple in anti-trust suit?
Apple’s attempts to have the anti-trust suit brought against them by the US Department of Justice thrown out of court were denied on Tuesday. Federal Judge Denise Cote cited previous statements from Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs as justification for the dispute over e-book pricing to continue. Jobs’s comment was included in the DOJ’s case [...]
News In Brief: One More Thing: Rio Ferdinand for England, according to EA Sports
His name is Rio – The England team has been announced and while it may well be the most uninspiring line-up of humans since the reforming of Steps, the one bit of interest is a lack of Rio Ferdinand. If Hodgson had done his homework – and by homework, we mean contacting EA Sports and [...]