There has been a lot of hubbub centering on smartwatches recently. Rumors continue to insist that Apple will be stepping into the market and Samsung has launched its Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which has proven to be rather unpopular. Rumors began to suggest back in March that Google was working on its own smartwatch. Reports have […]
Pressing a button is so 20th century. And winking or asking Google Glass to do it for you seems like quite a lot of effort, too. So, for the truly lazy, Neurocam analyzes your brainwaves to work out when you want a picture taking.
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The history of the toilet is inextricably tied to the history of
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many years of employment, the toilet has evolved, but the purpose of it
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Nokia may be going through a hell of a transition period, but it released its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings this morning just like clockwork. The Finnish phone maker (for now, anyway) reported net sales of €5.66 billion (or $7.79 billion) in the quarter ending September, along with a surprise profit of €118 million ($162 million).
To put it mildly, those are big, big gains over Nokia’s past performance – the company posted a €115 million loss last quarter, and a whopping €564 million loss this time last year. Meanwhile, analysts expected the Finnish phone maker to report earnings of zero cents per share (which happens to be in line the figure Nokia put up last quarter) and €5.9 million in revenue in the days leading up to the release.
There’s been a considerable amount of movement on the smartphone front as well, as Nokia reported selling 8.8 million Lumia devices in Q3, up from the 7.4 million sold last quarter and the comparatively dismal 2.9 million back in the year-ago quarter. Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ascribed that growth to a slew of recent product releases and some savvy over-investment during its early Windows Phone days, but it probably doesn’t hurt that BlackBerry – the dark-horse candidate for the 3rd place spot in the smartphone race – has definitely seen better days.
But it won’t be long at all before the nature of these earnings releases changes on a fundamental level – after all, Microsoft announced back in September that it would acquire the entirety of Nokia’s Devices and Services business for $7.2 billion in a deal that’ll close in early 2014, so we’ll eventually see the remnants of Nokia focusing on its network and HERE Maps segments. That said, net sales for both divisions this past quarter were down sequentially (NSN, formerly Nokia Siemens Networks, was down slightly with €2.6 billion while HERE dipped to €0.2 billion), making for some generally flat year-over-year growth. That’s far from a bad thing in this case though – as The Verge’s Aaron Souppouris points out, a smaller Nokia that focused solely on networks and mapping would be even more profitable than the beast we see right now.
Meanwhile, that hardware shift wile eventually change the fortunes of both companies. The move is a big (if unsurprising) get for Microsoft, which has been cautiously shifting further into consumer hardware and could use a considerable boost for its Windows Phone platform. Of course, the announcement hasn’t exactly been bad for Nokia either – its stock price jumped shortly after the acquisition news broke and has largely stayed at those elevated levels through today.
That’s not to say that the New Nokia will never again churn out a phone though, as the company will regain to right to sell low-end feature phones in 2016.
This is a developing story, please refresh for updates.
Believe it or not, there are some people in this world who think that faking a high score to be top dog on the global Game Center leaderboard is both big and clever. Of course, most of us know better, so it’s with a great deal of relief that Apple’s latest developer-facing update is looking to deal …
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Netflix is the most popular subscription video streaming service around. Netflix is always looking for new shows and content to make its service even more popular for viewers. Recently Netflix announced that it was considering offering some big motion pictures for streaming the same day they were available in theaters. As interesting as being able […]
We’re sure many of you guys have played games and wanted to see how well you ranked on Apple’s leaderboards, Game Center. Unfortunately in some cases, despite how well you think you’ve done, the top scores are usually pretty insane and look impossible to achieve, let alone beat. While some scores are legit, chances are those ridiculous numbers you are looking at are courtesy of cheaters who have pretty much ruined Game Center’s leaderboard for everyone, but now Apple is trying to do something about it by giving developers access to Game Center. (more…)
Apple Lets Developers Access Game Center To Remove Fake Scores And Block Cheaters original content from Ubergizmo. 
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We have heard how Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has announced that the company has plans for new product categories for 2014, and what better category than wearable electronics such as the rumor iWatch, right? Well according to a new rumor reported by The Korea Herald, they cite an “expert” who claims that LG is close to inking a deal with Apple that will allow the South Korean company to supply Apple with OLEDs that will be used in Apple’s upcoming device. According to the anonymous source, “LG Display has been in talks over flexible organic light-emitting diode panels for quite a while and it looks like it will be sealing the deal with Apple.”
At the moment both LG and Samsung are some of the suppliers that Apple uses to provide them with displays for their Mac and iOS products, but interestingly enough the rumors claim that Samsung will not be taking part in Apple’s iWatch, but rather LG and Taiwan’s RiTDisplay are said to be possible candidates. The reason is not what you might think, which is that given Apple and Samsung’s legal history, you would think that Apple is not looking to give Samsung any business. Instead it seems that Samsung is not too keen on the prospect, especially since they are trying to market their own smartwatch in the form of the Galaxy Gear. In any case take it with a grain of salt for now, but if the rumors are to be believed, it certainly sounds like come 2014, we will be seeing the fabled iWatch make its debut.
LG Close To Inking Deal With Apple For iWatch Displays, Samsung To Sit This One Out [Rumor] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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One of the things that made the original Nintendo Wii so popular was that rather than being a passive gaming experience where players simply set on the couch, it got players up and active to play many of the video games available. Nintendo carried that active gaming theme on when it unveiled the Nintendo Wii […]
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