Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 423 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Terje Sorgjerd
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
Terje Sorgjerd visited El Teide, the highest mountain in Spain at around 3,718 meters, between April 4th and April 11th. While visiting, he made a timelapse video with a goal to capture the Milky Way galaxy. During the course of that week, Terje got about 10 hours of sleep total.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 417 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Acer, Acer ICONIA Tab A500, Android, Google Android

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is now available for purchase at Best Buy for $450. The Iconia is powered by the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system. Other specs of the Iconia Tab A500 include a 10.1-inch screen 1280×800 TFT WXGA screen, NVIDIA Tegra 250 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, and 16GB of flash storage. Capacity can be increased to about 32GB through a microSD card. The Iconia Tab A500 also has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera for video chatting. There is WiFi, Bluetooth, a USB 2.0 port, and 10 hour battery life. [Mashable]
Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 958 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Adam Cahan, Auditude, Bill Shaughnessy, Blake Irving, IntoNow, Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has acquired IntoNow for between $20-$30 million. IntoNow is like the “Shazam of TV.” IntoNow’s SoundPrint platform allows mobile app users to listen to a TV show and it will find a match within 4-12 seconds of listening to the audio. IntoNow will notify the user about the individual episode being watched.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 658 views | 2 Comments
Categorized under Infinity Box Inc., SurveyMonkey, Wufoo

SurveyMonkey, one of the largest online survey companies, has acquired Infinity Box Inc., the parent company of Wufoo. The companies did not reveal the details about the transaction, but it is rumored that the price was around $35 million in cash and stock.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 627 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Android, Apple Inc., Google, Google Android, Steve Jobs

Last week I wrote about how the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G was storing location information in a database file. The database file was discovered by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had something to say about the matter when he was asked about it. “We don’t track anyone. The info circulating around is false,” said Jobs in an e-mail.

Amit Chowdhry | April 21, 2011 | 704 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple iPhone 4, Fran Shammo, Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless has announced their first quarter results and reported that they have activated 2.2 million iPhones in the first quarter and about 500,000 4G devices. Of the 500,000 4G devices, 260,000 were HTC Thunderbolts.

Amit Chowdhry | April 20, 2011 | 516 views | Add a Comment
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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced their first quarter earnings. AT&T had met the expectations of Wall Street as they reported earnings of $3.4 billion on revenues of $31.2 billion. They are up 2.3% from a year ago. AT&T’s subscribers have been increased due to tablets and e-readers.

Amit Chowdhry | April 20, 2011 | 795 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple iMac, Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is tightening up their iMac supplies according to sources with 9to5Mac. As past behaviors indicate, Apple releases a new generation of a specific product whenever they tighten supplies. The inventory of four different types of the iMac have been constrained. Rumor has it that new iMacs with new Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt I/O ports are launching between April and early May. [9to5Mac]