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RIM faces short term bounce!

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

All of us are very well aware of the master mind behind the Blackberry operating system. Blackberry ruled the market immediately after its launch. The operating system RIM was so powerful that it out shadowed the popular operating systems like iOS. It was so clear that people loved their new smart phones. But then RIM entered the new financial year of 2011.

RIM has been facing ups and downs in their company and trading since the start of 2011. Everyone knows that it was a bad year for RIM, very bad. The all new Blackberry Tablet didn’t work in the market and finally they ended up selling their Playbooks for discounted price. Also, their new range of Blackberry Smart phones could not create furor in the mobile market as Android and iOS was already ruling the market.

Recently it was reported that the company is again planning to make chief executive level shifts without any new strategic directions.  Rim stocks are also not going up and still RIM makers are not thinking of any great innovative strategy. God knows what they are up to!

With these changes, RIM also faced a showdown of about 8 percent in their stock prices. Earlier there was an instance, where the stocks were oversold that actually created short term edges and thus went higher and higher.  But now, things can’t go worse than this for RIM, as the stock’s latest rally into overbought field.

This is a very rare moment in the entire lifetime of Research in Motion as the conditions previously were low, but now they are going lower. Thus, this made sellers to finally put the stock down in an agitation of selling for trading on the first day of the week. Following the struggle of Research in Motion in the market, one thing is sure that every investor is going to think thousand times before investing their cash in this company.

Investors would surely follow the so called rule of buying stocks that are moving above 200/ day average. Investors would surely have lots of doubts in their minds related to Research in Motion’s slip in stock. Finally Research in Motion has entered the bear market territory of US trading market, and investors have lost all hopes of this company escaping this territory as soon as possible.  But it is said that the stocks which are running below 200 per day average are not able to cope up with the bear market territory tag.

And it is believed that even if Research in Motion fortunately gets out of this territory, it will surely make it to the top again. Let’s just wish them all the best! As it is observed that those companies who have luckily escaped this bear market territory have positively bounced back in the market. For instance, the Citigroup or the Bank of America made remarkable recoils in current week. Just like RIM, Citibank also faced the same condition, and their stocks were running lower and lower.

 

RuggedCom Inc – Friendly deal!

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Finally, the RuggedCom Inc. has been taken over by the communications leader Siemens Canada limited in a friendly way. RuggedCom Inc. has really found the Canadian technology leader which will help them make communication equipments for different environments.

Siemens Canada Ltd. Won against the St. Louis-based cable maker Belden Inc. to acquire the RuggedCom Inc at a price of $33 per share. Previously Belden had offered a noteworthy price of $22 per share. Thus, finally RuggedCom Inc has merged with the Canadian communication leader Siemens Canada Ltd. This will help RuggedCom Inc to keep them intact and the company’s huge international operations will prove to be beneficial to them.

RuggedCom Inc. will merge with Siemens’ ongoing work on smart grid technologies which distributes electricity and various communication networks to industrial clients. The $440 million bid will be open for more than 35 days and then the bid will be closed at the end of March.

RuggedCom Inc is planning to add a different angle in network router and switches that are designed for places full of mess such as oil refineries, roadside traffic control boxes, military applications and power sub stations. But, RuggedCom Inc is going to maintain its ongoing personal sales, research and development, and production functions and will become the part of Siemens industrial automation division.

Siemens will try and innovate RuggedCom Inc while maintaining its original form with the help of Siemens’ international research and projects. Many analysts say that the value of this firm RuggedCom Inc can be valued for more than $35 per share. But it is reported that RuggedCom Inc had a talk with various parties before giving themselves up to Siemens Canada Ltd.

RuggedCom Inc is trading almost at the triple price since last September. Its share almost jumped up to 25 percent more prices when Siemens offered them $32.85 per share. The Ontario based organization that provides communications networking products and services for harsh environments has made up their mind to make a friendly deal with Siemens at a share price of $33 per share. RuggedCom Inc said that the previous offer was inadequate to fulfill the need of the corporation and its 360 employees. Other parties have 35 days to propose their price, and if they offer greater price than what’s offered by Siemens, the corporation will delete Siemens Canada Ltd. also from its list.

The reported revenue of RuggedCom Inc is about $94 million a year, so they didn’t agree to the deal placed by Beldens. Thus, Siemens also has a positive point in buying this company. Siemens can reach up to North America and Asia Pacific with an improvement in its router and switches. The German engineering company was attracted to the Canadian corporation because of its durable Ethernet communication products and network solutions.

Thus, Siemens will take over RuggedCom Inc to improve the quality of its products and services with the help of this outstanding data communications network system.

If all goes well from both the RuggedCom Inc and Siemens Canada Ltd., then they will surely become one by the end of march 2012.

 

Censored….!!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Blocked?? Censored? Everyone asking, BUT WHY? Yes, there’s a bad news for all social network addicts, your all time favorite past time social site, Twitter is now going to have their tweets censored.

It’s a red alert! The Twitter owners announced their new censorship policy on Thursday. The policy states that Twitter won’t allow some messages and tweets to be seen in some countries. The service may get spotty in various countries. They have taken this step related to censorship in order to comply with the rules and regulations of each and every country.

For example, tweets related to pro-Nazi topics will not be permitted in Germany whereas if you criticizing the government, you can’t view the tweet if you are in China. Thus, if Twitter is removing some comment, it will clearly indicate you on first hand that your tweet has been censored and that tweet or message will be forwarded to the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse that is into creating databases of all the tweets that are deleted.

Twitter has been very useful in protest, campaigns; it has also played a vital role in the Egyptian revolution and other Iranian protest during its 2009 election. Thus, with this censorship policy, it is surely going to disappoint many of the revolutionaries and campaigns out there.

Even after this policy, the tweeples have not stopped campaigning and protesting. Many of the tweets are coupled with #dontcensor tags in order to protest against this policy. Thus, it is very much clear that users do not like this very policy of censorship.

Thus, with this policy there will be more transparency in twitter and you will come to know whose tweet has been removed or deleted. If you tweet against some country, it won’t be seen in that country and thus, there will be no complaints.

This country-by-country basis tweet also created a buzz around the gay community. The gay community says that this decision is due to the SOPA and PIPA activists and thus, twitter has introduced this new policy of censoring tweets in some countries. As for now, China has banned this site, and it is temporarily not accessible in Egypt.

Thus, the gay community is worried that their LGBT tweets will be blocked in some countries and this will lead to decrease in communication between the LGBT activists in different countries. Hence, this censorship has been a great question of worry for communicating feelings and emotions in other countries if it’s not permitted in their rules.

Many of the reporters without border have condemned this decision of censorship and many other groups have started protesting with hash tags having #BoycottTwitter proliferated over the weekend written after it. Thus, many users have joined this online movement against the censorship of tweets.

Tweeples have been very much outraged by this decision and hence they are expressing their feelings and anger in form of their tweets or boycotting their account for sometime. Thus, it is so clear that the internet and its users hate censorship and now twitter has been the target of this hatred.  Let’s just hope users just cope up with this fact and accept censorship on tweets happily.

 

Just Google it!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Google, as the word says, is the world’s leading multinational company in the field of internet and computer software. At present, it is one of the top most search engines used by each and every person all over the globe.

With headquarters situated in California, United States, Google has their office based in many other countries all around the world. The chief product and service offered by Google is the search engine. You can find whatever you want if you are searching it in Google.

It specializes in fields of Internet search, advertising technologies and cloud computing. It is more into developing internet products and services and earns its profit chiefly due to advertising with AdWord.

The company offers a lot of online software, such as the

  • Gmail: an email service that helps you Compose, send and receive emails on the go,
  • Google Docs office suite: a service by Google to save word documents and presentations, Etc.,
  • Google+ : a social networking service is giving tough competition to sites like facebook, twitter, etc.

Google is also into internet browsers, having their own browser named as Google Chrome. Google Chrome has gained a lot of success even after having so many opponents such as firefox, internet explorer, safari, etc.

Google also has its personalized photo viewer, Picasa. Picasa is one of the best photo viewer used by many people around the globe with customized options for direct sharing the photos on websites like Facebook, email your friends, etc. You can also edit your photos, modify them, crop your photos, etc. with the help of this software.

One more product offered by Google is the instant messaging service called Google Talk. Google Talk is a successful software for chatting with friends, colleagues and loved ones. Thus, Google Talk serves as a strong competitor to yahoo messenger, skype, etc.

Last year in 2010, Google has joined hands with Linux in an open alliance for the all new operating system, Android. Android has become the world famous operating system, and it is noted that about 700,000 million Android phones were activated till the end of December 2011.

Google also has their own computer laptops known as Chromebooks. Google has developed a lot since its establishment in the year 1996.

Google also has stakes in many websites of different genres such as www.youtube.com for offering free videos, bloggers and www.orkut.com as a social networking site. Orkut has been very much successful for many years after its release. It had been the hot topic for the teenagers.

Thus, you can surely rely on www.google.com for any of your projects, research, assignments, networking and more.

It organizes a lot of information from throughout the world and makes it reach you at the right time when you desperately need it with just one click. After loads of hard work, Google’s search engines has been recognized as the “world’s best search engine”.

I bet everyone of us should give a little credit to google’ search engine. You must have surely logged on to this site for the research work need for your school and college projects.

So just thank Google for always being there and whenever there is a doubt, just google it guys!

Apple sets an eye on the textbook market

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Most of us are big fans of Apple products and are waiting for Apple Inc. to release more and more innovative products.

Apple is leading the mobile market with its brilliant products like iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, etc. People are totally enjoying all the extraordinary products and apps designed by Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is making use of its huge success in the market of mobile phones to disturb decelerated but largely money-spinning  industry of textbooks.

If we go with the reports, it is said that the most reliable technological company in the entire globe has announce on Thursday, that they are going to release the latest version electronic book software iBook 2 for the users of iPad.  With reports coming in about the release of their all new featured iPad3, it has been declared that they are going to be more innovative in their next version of iBook.

If you are lucky enough to have an iPad, then you do not need to carry textbooks to colleges and universities. You can just easily get textbooks from the all new iBook 2 and read them by paying the required amount. It is reported that Apple has joined hands with few of the biggest educational publishers of North America which also includes the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Cos. and Pearson.

With the all new upcoming iPad 3, you also get a surprise bonus of iBook 2 in it. Isn’t it an awesome idea? Apple has always tried to come up with creative, mind blowing and innovative ideas in their products, and this one also seems to boost up the sales of their product, iPad. You will find out that this iBook 2 will be competent enough to exhibit books along with videos and various other interactive features.

iBook 2 comes with all new section of textbooks and students can purchase this electronic and interactive version of their textbooks in less than $15. Also, in addition to this, Apple has also planned to release a free application that will allow anyone to design, write, etc. their own cook book, text book or something similar.

This attempt of Apple to sell electronic textbooks has been smartly planned entirely when the whole of traditional textbook industry is going through a period of vagueness even though it’s quite huge. It is noted that the textbook business in the United States is valued almost $10-billion.

Apple also released an app for iTunes U, which has been a guide for colleges to release video and audio starting lectures, through iTunes. The company is structuring its new offering as an answer to the difficulty of stationery, large, costly textbooks. But there are numerous purposes Apple stays to profit from substituting traditional textbooks with interactive versions planned exclusively for the iPad.

One thing is clear, these new textbooks by Apple Inc. are likely to boost up iPad sales in schools, and will also help to make ecosystem greener and encourage digital education on a large scale.

Motorola – Still surviving !

Friday, January 27th, 2012

With so many mobile companies emerging, you must have obviously heard the name of the Motorola which is an American multinational company of telecommunication that is originally situated in the town of Schaumburg, Illinois.

Initially when they started, they were together but as time passed, a division was created with two independent categories of Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions.

Motorola Mobility is one of the mobile companies designing and selling mobile phones all around the globe. I bet many Canadians must be using products designed by Motorola. While on the other hand, Motorola Solutions designed and manufactured infrastructural equipments for wireless network. This includes cellular transmission base stations, signal amplifiers, etc.

These home and broadcast network solution products also included digital video recorders, set top boxes and other equipments used for computer telephony, video broadcasting and HD televisions. Motorola is giving a tough competition to its rivals which are mainly Samsung, Videocon, and Panasonic in the line of television, video recorders, etc.

Motorola has business and government clients mainly for products like broadband systems and wireless voice, public safety communications systems, etc. All these are now part of Motorola Solutions. Only set top boxes and cable modem are excluded from this list.

Globally Motorola is in the top 100 companies and is the leading in offering embedded electronic solutions and integrated communication solutions. Motorola Mobility is ruling about 10% of mobile market all around the globe. It also provides cordless telephone a product which is leading its way in cellular telephones.

Motorola, like other smart phones, joined hands with Google’s operating system, Android to increase their mobile sales. Motorola was the first one to release this latest operating system, Android in their phone and named the phone as Motorola Droid in the year 2009. After that, all other companies like Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc embraced the all new operating system, Android.

Cable modem and set top boxes are added in the Motorola Mobility section along with Motorola handsets. As of now, due to a lot of traffic in the mobile market, the sales of Motorola have crashed down. But in spite of all these problems, Motorola is still standing upright as a mobile company and changing their designs and configurations according to the technology.

Motorola is also into sponsoring various events and matches. Many celebrities have been the brand ambassadors for the company’s mobile phones and helped Motorola to sell their products. Motorola has released many products till date. Let’s just summarize some of the best products è

Laptops :

ML910
MW810
And many more…

Cameras :

HMVC3075
HMVC3020, etc.

Mobile phones:

Motorola Gleam EX212
Motorola EX109

Motorola WX265

And many more…

Thus, you can surely have a Motorola handset for yourself if you wish to have a phone with jam packed features at cheaper rates. Motorola prices are much cheaper than other mobile companies and thus, may be this is the reason why people still opt for buying Motorola phones.

 

 

Welcome to the world of Android!

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Welcome to the world of Android!

All of us are well aware of the Android operating systems coupled with smart phones of companies like Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony Ericson, etc. It makes you feel more lively  with its simple, smart and beautiful apps.

Android is software for mobile phones that features three main components:

  • Operating system
  • Mid ware
  • Important applications

Coming to the general knowledge, Android is an operating system made up by Linux for mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. It is co- partnered by Google as an open handset alliance.

This system has a huge community of writers that provide their ideas about various applications in a modified version of Java. Then these Apps can be downloaded by the Android users from the online stores like Android market or some other third party sites.

The Android market is an online store that is run by Google with a huge collection of Android apps. Almost 10 billion apps were downloaded till the end of December 2011. From that, millions of apps were downloaded before the New Year’s week that is right from Christmas holidays.

It has also been listed as the largest selling Smartphone platform all around the globe. According to research, almost 700,000 devices were activated till the end of December 2011. You can easily browse through all the apps in the Android market and shop there and then.

Android has become a biggest hit among the age group of 16 to 30 years old. Many of the smart phones are earning loads of profit due to Android OS in them. There have been millions of app downloads happening every year all around the globe. Android brings to you the power of web and Google right away in your hand through various devices like smart phones, tablets, etc.

Android is full jam packed with the following features:-

  • Incredibly fast browser,
  • Simple mode to link up and share,
  • Cloud syncing,
  • Multitasking,
  • Google apps,
  • Customized home launcher,
  • Different widgets,
  • And much more…

The list goes on and on. You can’t count the number of mind blowing features Android offers you with. Also, if you notice, Android phones are cheaper than their other opponents that cost you big bucks for just a mobile phone. It is an open platform for using various apps and most of them are free.

But on the contrary, there is a negative aspect of Android too, you need to log on as an administrator and install each and every program in different ways in different phones unlike Blackberry or Apple iPhone. Also, if you are a person who is very much fond of fiddling with your phone then you should surely stay away from Android devices.

All in all, Android is very much handy if you are a gadget freak. You can just buy a smart phone starting from 8k and make your way to the best selling operating system in the world.