Author: Egon Kilin

Apple reaching high: 120 million iPhones 6 gadgets sold by the end of the year

80 million is clearly a very large number of devices a factory can produce and people can buy and use. The new iPhone 6 is being launched, allegedly, this September in tandem with Apple’s iOS 8 and there is a lot of controversy among fans and otherwise concerning design, functionality and interface. The new Apple ...

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Tags: Apple, Design, iOS 8, iPhone 6, marketing, mobile technology, Price, Sales

Digital tattoos, innovative screen locks and more

The new Moto X comes with a promising and innovative new feature, almost spy-tech, even. Basically, you stick a tatto wherever you want and when the phone detects it, it unlocks. You can say goodbye to the waterdrops and the fades, the phone recognizes you. We have seen similar technology incorporated in LG devices as ...

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Tags: Android, Apps, digital tattoo, lock screen, Mi Band, Mobile, Moto X, NFC, pranks, Sony SmartBand, Xiaomi

Twitter under pressure to release data

Reverend Jesse Jackson, a U.S. civil rights advocate has begun pressuring Twitter to follow in the footsteps of Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo, to release its employee diversity data, claiming that blacks were underrepresented in the tech community based on racial discrimination rather than on skills and abilities. Jackson has founded The Rainbow Push Coalition, ...

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Tags: African Americans, Black Twitter, Diversity, Employment, Google, Jesse Jackson, Racism, Twitter

Microsoft to lay off 18.000 employees

Microsoft has announced on Thursday, July 17th that the company was going to begin massive layoffs of up to 14% of their staff, to be accomplished in the following year. Most affected by these layoffs will be the newly acquired Nokia devices and services division, with a cut of about 12.500 jobs, the company planning ...

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Tags: Layoffs, Microsoft, Nokia, Satya Nadella, Xbox