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Monday, April 9, 2012

Know how to hack a video game console?

The U.S. Navy wants you!


The government wants to pay $177,000 for the ability to monitor game systems

For players just looking to have a good time when gaming online, hackers are a major nuisance. But regardless of how frustrating playing against someone with an unfair advantage can be, the practice of game console hacking has apparently caught the eye of the United States military. It seems the U.S. Navy is looking for a few good hackers to create both hardware and virtual modifications that will allow officials to monitor the messaging functions of specific game consoles — and they're prepared to pay over $150,000 for the final product.
Officials wants to be able to keep tabs on live communications between a person using a modified console and whoever it is they are chatting with. They also want to be able to glean data from a used game console and obtain useful information about the prior owner's communications with other gamers.
An aptly-named firm called Obscure Technologies was awarded the first contract in the Navy's bid for game console clairvoyance, but their mission is more about national security than domestic snooping: it turns out terrorists like video games too. If military intelligence officers can snag actionable information from messages sent over online game networks like PSN and Xbox Live, the world could declare "Game Over" on a terrorist act before it ever occurs.

Source: www.tecca.com

Sunday, April 8, 2012

100 Funniest Things to Do When You are Bored


1) Point at someone and shout "Your one of them!" Run and pretend to trip. Crawl away slowly.

2) Run up to someone random on the street and slap them with a loaf of bread.

3) Look at see through glass and when someone is on the other side shout "OH MY GOD, I'M HIDEOUS!"

4) Go to McDonalds and ask for a happy meal with extra happy.

5) Walk up to a small child that resembles you, and tell them that you are them from the future.

6) Bring a desk on an elevator. When people try to get on ask if they have an appointment.

7) Put a dora doll in the middle of Walmart.When someone tries to pick it up yell "SWIPER NO SWIPING".

8) Go up to a random lady with a daughter and say her son is adorable.

9) Go to a libary and ask for a book on how to read.

10) Come late to school and when the teacher asks why say your pet rock had a seizure.

11) Go jump on a random guys back and yell (THE SKY IS FALLING RUN MAN RUN) and see what happens.

12) Blow up a balloon, then ask someone to pop it, when they do, start screaming.

13) Fill your mouth with whipped cream, then run down the street screaming "I HAVE RABIES".

14) If skinny people skinny dip what do fat people do? Chunky Dunk?

15) Go to petsmart and buy bird seed. Then ask the clerk how long it will take the birds to grow.

16) Go to walmart, find a random old guy and yell, "GRANDPA! YOUR STILL ALIVE! ITS A MIRACLE".

17) Shout "For Narnia!" and charge into a store, knocking over everything in your way.

18) Throw a watermelon in front of someone. Then get on your knees, grab your hair and scream "NOOO!"

19) Throw a small plastic ball at some body and then yell "get in your ball you stupid pokemon.

20) Sit on a curb with a stuffed animal and scream at it about how it ruined your life.

21) Run through a police station and yell " I finally escaped from prison!" .

22) Go to a Chinese restaruant and ask for Mexican food.

23) Buy an ice cream, ask the cashier if they believe in unicorns then squish the cone on your forehead.

24) Buy an ice cream cone, stick it on top of someone's head and yell "Why did you steal my ice cream?"

25) Dress up like a grandma and break dance in walmart.

26) Go to weigth wachers with a bag of cookies.

27) Tie hotwheels cars to the bottom of your cat/dog's feet.

28) Go up to random people at the mall, show them your ID, and say, "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?!"

29) Name your hair George, then go to the salon and be upstet that they killed him.

30) Call someone to tell them you can't talk right now.

31) Go to to a fast food restraunt and ask for a krabby patty, i they say no throw a fit.

32) Glue yourself to the ceiling and when someone walks by spit on them.

33) Run up to someone in Walmart and say U AINT GOT NO PANCAKE MIX!

34) Tell your dad in a public place- "Look, old man, I don't want your candy!"

35) In a public place, hold up a box of cheerios and yell "FREE DONUT SEEDS!".

36) Make "No Dumping - Violators Will Be Prosecuted" signs and put them in public bathroom stalls.

37) Dress up as ronald mcdonald and go to burger king.

38) Sit in a cardboard box and yell at people who walk by that they're trespassing!

39) When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!" "I Won!, I Won!"

40) Go to an Italian restaurant dressed up as Mario. See what happens.

41) Call a chicken place and ask how big there breast are.

42) Go to mc. donalds and ask for fries without the potatos.

43) Sing to public plants if anyone asks what you're doing scream and run.

44) Go to a clothes store, go in the front window and pretend to be a manikin.

45) Sniff a random person then stare at them for a while then say "your one of them".

46) Go to a cloths store, walk into the dressing room. Walk out and ask where the toilet paper is!

47) Tie a rock to a string and take it for a walk. Every now and then yell "Bad boy, Fluffy!"

48) Go to a airport and say Can I go in your suitcase to every person you see.

49) Go up to a really buff man and hug him yelling GRANDMAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50) Go in an elevator and then make peek-a-boo sounds when the doors open and close.

51) Put a computer mouse in a mouse trap.

52) Go to a pet shop, buy birdseed, and ask how long it will take to grow.

53) Follow strangers around a store and spray everything they touch with disinfectant.

54) Go to kfc and ask the way to mcdonalds.

55) KLFHJNEAJHVHJSAFVJHLASGKJDZFFJE...sorry there was just a spider on the keyboard.

56) Call a random phone number and yell, "Where is my fried chicken dude?!"

57) Tape your nose up like a pig, and protest bacon at the grocery store.

58) Find a midget on a street ask him to go up to people and say can i hav $20 I'm a bit short.

59) Walk around the mall five times talking to a carrot and see how many people look at you funny.

60) Go to your teacher and say i know what you did last night.

61) Dress up as ronald mcdonald and go aplpy for a job at burger king.

62) Stand on the side of the road with a hair dryer and point it at cars.

63) Go to the cinema and shout "HE'S THE MURDERER!" whenever someone new comes on screen.

64) Walk up to somebody and say "Im not wearing any pants" People will look down 99% of the time.

65) Go to mcdonalds and ask for directions to KFC.

66) In Wal-mart: Make a trail of orange juice on the ground, leading to the restrooms.

67) See if you can get a Wal-Mart clerk to sell you just one M&M.

68) Ring a random doorbell and when they answer just stare at them.

69) Make an old lady help you across the street.

70) Go to a clothing store, hide in a rack, and when people are browsing through, yell, "PICK ME!!!

71) Go to Wal-Mart, buy a cucumber and some KY jelly. Notice the look on the cashier's face.

72) Go to the store. Start Rolling around on the floor. Scream "Clean up on Aisle 3!"

73) Throw glue sticks at random people walking down the street and see if it sticks to them!

74) Ask a librarian if they have a book on learning to read.

75) Open a window and yell ITS MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!

76) Ask the manager of a McDonalds where the nearest Burger King is.

77) Dress up as a superhero pretending to stop bank robbers.

78) Go to walmart, go to a dressing room, wait a few minutes and yell there is no toilet paper in here!

79) Spit at a llama...How does it feel NOW you Darn LLAMA!

80) Hire a taxi. When the man asks you where you want to go, say "To infinity, and beyond".

81) Enter an elevator with people and sing and dance to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time."

82) Ask pizza hut to deliver water.

83) Go around the city park licking trees and if anyone asks say youre marking your territory.

84) Go into a public bathroom and start singing "Taking Care of Business" very loudly.

85) Hide in a public bathroom stall and when someone walks in, say "Ah young one, Welcome to Narnia."".

86) Throw a pokemon ball at your teachers head and scream "gotta catch em all".

87) Go in to a public bathroom, go into a stall, wait a second, then scream, "Mommy I need help!"

88) Go to a store, and leave a trail of orange juice leading to the bathrooms.

89) Wear blue lipstick and tell every one who asks why, that you ate a smurf.

90) Dress up as harry potter and stalk someone all day shouting random spells at them.

91) Go to mcdonalds and ask for directions to burgerking.

92) Put a lamp shade on your head and run around walmart.

93) Attack you neighbors with an army of garden knomes!

94) Convince a fat guy to give you 10,000$ for a giant cheese burger.

95) When in an elevator with only one other person,stare at them and breathe heavily.

96) Go to an atm machine and when the money comes out scream i win i win.

97) Go into a grocery store and scream at cheese.

98) Hide in a clothing rack in Walmart and when somebody goes by YELL "PICK ME PICK ME".

99) Walk around with a blow dryer and ask people if they want a blow job.

100) Go to McDonalds and order a diet water, drink it, do a spit take, and yell, I SAID DIET!


Saturday, April 7, 2012

Turning dumbphones to smartphones

A host of technologies promise to upgrade older, simpler handsets to give them the functionality of their more powerful, hi-tech cousins.




“I’m not a mobile phone guy,” says Guy Kamgaing with a chuckle. It is a strange thing to say, particularly when you consider he is the CEO of a company that makes software for mobile phones. But unlike many other CEOs of mobile firms, the Cameroonian entrepreneur does not obsess over the latest iPhone or the next software update for Android. He is much more interested in the kind of phones that fell out of vogue when smartphones arrived; an interest sparked on business trips throughout` Africa. “There were lines outside of cyber-cafes telling me that people wanted to get on the internet,” Kamgaing says. “But they didn’t have computers at home, or at the office.” What they did have, he says, were cell phones. Not high-end smartphones, but handsets designed to do the basics, mostly voice and SMS. “The only way demand for internet access could be met was through these basic phones,” says Kamgaing. “And I asked myself, ‘What if we could create something that would enable a low-end device to access digital content?’” And that’s how Mobile-XL came to be. To all intents and purposes the free software is a web browser that sits comfortably on most lower-end, handsets that run Java.

 It allows a user to access all different types of information that he or she might find online. For example, you can use Facebook, check email, play Sudoku and even download music. But Mobile-XL is far from being your typical mobile web browser. It is built to work entirely via SMS. The app essentially offers the user a set of browsable categories. Let’s say you wanted to check the score in a football match. You navigate to that category, and find your team. But when you click, instead of sending you to a web page, the request is transmitted back as an SMS. Just a few seconds later, you get a response with the score, again in the form of an SMS, that the app reads and presents to you on your handset. You get the information you’re looking for, but most importantly, you are not charged for downloading masses of data.

The only cost is sending and receiving a text message, substantially cheaper than paying for data in most parts of the world. “From the end user’s perspective, it’s basically the same kind of experience you get with a browser,” says Kamgaing. “But we’re trying to offer very local content. We aggregate job listings, local sports, classifieds, even stuff that’s not really on the internet yet. In Kenya, we realized that agricultural prices were important, so we created that category for that market.” Mobile-XL has done pilot projects in Cameroon and Ghana as well, and is about to launch in India. The company is also looking to go into Brazil and Mexico in the near future. It makes it money, for now, through SMS revenue sharing deals with mobile operators. Kamgaing says ads will come later, “when we have more eyeballs”. Book club But Kamgaing and Mobile-XL are not without competition when it comes to lightweight mobile browsers. And for good reason. “The market is huge,” says Gour Lentell, the Zimbabwe-born, Sydney-based co-founder of a company called biNu. “There are around five billion mobile users in the world today, and more than four billion of them are non smart-phone users. And yet, the mobile forms their only and primary means of accessing the internet. Many of those people will go to extraordinary lengths to have internet access from their mobile devices.” Lentell and his business partner, Dave Turner, got the idea for biNu when they came across a piece of intellectual property a few years ago.

“It was just a prototype,” says Lentell, “but it was designed to optimize the delivery of data services over wireless networks to mobile devices.” Lentell and Turner acquired the technology, and began building on it.The two launched biNu in 2010, offering low-end phone users “a radically different” browsing experience. The company claims that with biNu, webpages can load much faster than on a smartphone, and use far less bandwidth. How? Simple, really. Most of the processing is not done on the phone, but in the cloud. “We virtualize the smartphone experience on our cloud-based platform. We do all the processing, right down to fonts and graphics, in the cloud and then transfer that efficiently to the phone to be displayed.” It is a similar trick used by other browsers, such as Opera Mini, Skyfire, UC Browser and Bolt. And it is one, Lentell that says, can translate into smaller data usage bills for the user as unnecessary information is not downloaded to the phone. Like Mobile-XL, biNu is a stand-alone application that can be downloaded for free. Within the biNu platform, users find links to popular sites such as Facebook, Gmail and the like. It is comparable to another application known as Snaptu, that gathered nearly 80 million users before it was bought by Facebook in 2011 and redesigned as the Facebook For Every Phone app. Lentell says that he sees the attraction of the technology to a company like Facebook – a lot of his users use the social network through his app, particularly the messaging function, which he says replaces SMS in a lot of cases. But, he says, there is a demand for other services. “Wikipedia, Google Search and Google Translate are used widely across our various markets,” he says.

 Another popular service is biNu Books, which the company is working on in conjunction with a non-profit called Worldreader. For the past few years, Worldreader has been distributing e-readers to kids in the developing world. The readers come pre-loaded with reference materials, local textbooks and classics of world literature that are in the public domain. Worldreader’s e-reader program has been popular, but “the fact that mobile penetration is so high in most parts of the developing world – and growing fast – has driven us to looking into the possibility of using mobile phones to deliver more books to more folks,” says the organisation’s Elizabeth Wood. “But until now, the technology hasn’t been there for the feature phone. Books on iPhones are great, but the people we are trying to reach don’t have iPhones. They have $20 Nokias.” So Worldreader and biNu teamed up to make a reader for low-end phones. “The advantage of a phone app,” says Wood, “is that it’s a library in your pocket on a device you already have.”

 They hope that with biNu’s help, they’ll have one million users by the end of next year. Right now, both biNu and Mobile-XL are tapping into markets hungry for a low-cost, efficient and reliable way to access the internet in ways that many of us in the developed world take for granted. But will that change as more of the world gets connected via 3G and even 4G systems? Both Lentell and Kamgaing do not think a switch-over like that is going to happen overnight. Lentell points to the fact that a large portion of downloads come from the US, suggesting a demand even in mature markets, whilst Kamgaing says he sees a “long future” for voice and SMS in emerging markets. “I think that’s why you have to decide to give people some basic tools, instead of expecting them to buy smartphones and iPhones,” he says

Source: BBC News

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Essential WordPress Plugins

9 Essential WordPress Plugins - OSTraining
WordPress Tutorials and Blog Posts

1. Ultimate TinyMCE Editor

The basic editor works OK, but most people just want more! There's one that seems to be more complete than most and adds the whole ball of wax in one shot.
Ultimate TinyMCE will expand the default array of buttons in the visual tinymce editor, giving you the power to visually create your pages and posts. No need for mucking about in HTML and CSS.

 
Features:
  • No need to learn the languages of HTML and CSS (although the basics can certainly help) when creating your pages/posts.
  • Easily manipulate your fonts, font sizes, colors, styles, and css from a graphical user interface.
  • Shortcodes Manager - Now all your shortcodes are available in a handy dropdown box.
  • Google Maps Integration makes it easy for you to insert a Google Map anywhere in your content.
  • Create tables through a graphical interface (much like microsoft excel) to display your data.
  • Insert YouTube videos by simply copying and pasting the share url.
  • Graphical Image Mapping to make your images more exciting.
  • Enable PHP text widgets, allowing even further control of how your content is displayed.
  • Use shortcodes to insert column breaks. This is a VERY cool feature. You can break any content area into up to six separate columns.
  • Ultimate Tinymce will add more than 30 new buttons and features to your visual editor.
  • Accompanying this plugin is a huge contextual help system, designed to help provide specific information, screenshots, and examples for each feature.
Visit the official plugin page: Ultimate TinyMCE.

2. Akismet

Askimet is the spam protection service WordPress. Akismet is free for personal sites, but not so for commercial sites. However It's a long time favorite because it really works. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. It will automatically block spam comments.

Visit the official plugin page: Akismet.

3. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.



Features:
  • At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in YSlow or significant Google Page Speed improvements) when fully configured
  • Improved conversion rates and "site performance" which affect your site's rank on Google.com
  • "Instant" subsequent page views: browser caching
  • Optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly
  • Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site; visitors view more pages
  • Improved web server performance; sustain high traffic periods
  • Up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds
Over 1 million downloads. I guess we're not the only ones who like this.
Visit the official plugin page: W3 Total Cache.

4. Broken Links Checker

This is a great way to make sure everything is working smootly on your site. An email from a client saying they found a broken link can be quite embarrassing. This plugin lets you be the hero.

Features:
  • Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
  • Detects links that don't work, missing images and redirects.
  • Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
  • Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
  • Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
  • You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
  • Links can be edited directly from the plugin's page, without manually updating each post.
  • Highly configurable.
Visit the plugin page: Broken Link Checker.

5. EZPZ One Click Backup

EZPZ One Click Backup, is a very easy way to do a complete backup of your entire WordPress site. In fact it's so easy to use there are no required user settings, everything is automatic. Just one click and presto, you'll have a complete backup stored on your server. One more click and you can download the entire backup to your own computer. Trying to move a site from one server to another EZPZ OCB might be a good solution.

  • EZPZ OCB now features a "One-Stop" control panel with status indicators and better cross-browser compatibility. (Tested on Firefox 3.5+, IE 9, Chrome, Safari 5.1 [windows version], Opera 11, and Flock 2.6. It is compatible with IE 9 but earlier versions may have some display quirks during Manual backups however the backups are NOT affected.)
  • EZPZ OCB also stores up to 10 backups on the server.
  • With EZPZ Easy Restore restoring your site is a simple two step process.
  • EZPZ OCB can automatically upload your backups to your Dropbox account or any FTP server.
Visit the official plugin page: EZPZ One Click Backup.

6. Revision Control

Revision Control is a plugin for WordPress which gives the user more control over the Revision functionality. You can compare the current version with a previous version. Restore from a single click to revert. Very good if you have submissions from users or admins that make a lot of mistakes.
The plugin allows the user to set a site-global setting (Settings -> Revisions) for pages/posts to enable/disable/limit the number of revisions which are saved for the page/post. The user may change this setting on a per-page/post basis from the Revisions Meta box.

The plugin also allows the deletion of specific revisions via the Revisions post metabox.
Visit the official plugin page: Revision Control.

7. Widget Context

Display widgets only on certain pages, posts or any other section of your website. One of WordPress's frustrations is that every page has the same widgets. With this you can define the widget placement to certain menu items or categories.

An extra control is added to your widget editor, which let's you easily place the widgets with some radio buttons and checkboxes. We happen to have a tutorial that will help you with this:http://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/widget-context/.
Visit the official plugin page: Widget Context.

8. SEO by Yoast

This is really the Swiss Army Knife of SEO for WordPress. Once it's setup, all the controls are on a single section of your editing window. It really does everything.

Features:
  • Snippet preview
  • Page Analysis
  • Technical WordPress Search Engine Optimization
  • Meta & Link Elements
  • XML Sitemaps
  • RSS Optimization
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Edit your .htaccess and robots.txt file
  • Facebook OpenGraph
  • Multi-Site Compatible
  • Import & Export functionality
  • Import functionality for other WordPress SEO plugins
Check out our tutorial: http://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/wordpress-seo-by-yoast/
Visit the official plugin page: SEO by Yoast
 

9. Front-end Editor

Front-end Editor is a plugin that lets you make changes to your content directly from your site while viewing the page or post.. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo. Quick changes are a breeze. Tired of clicking back and forth? Try this.
Features:
  • Saves as many trips to the backend as possible
  • Compatible with any theme, out of the box
  • Light and fast
Visit the official plugin page: Front-end Editor.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store


Top Paid iPhone Apps:

1. Angry Birds Space (Rovio Mobile Ltd.)

2. Draw Something by OMGPOP (OMGPOP)

3. Clear Vision (17+) (FDG Entertainment)

4. Madcoaster (Chillingo Ltd)

5. Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick Studios)

6. Ugly Meter (Dapper Gentlemen)

7. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.)

8. The Night Sky (iCandi Apps)

9. Cut the Rope (Chillingo Ltd)

10. Camera+ (tap tap tap)

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Top Free iPhone Apps:

1. Draw Something Free (OMGPOP)

2. Geared (Bryan Mitchell)

3. DOOORS - room escape game (58works)

4. ArcherWorldCup2 (LitQoo)

5. Stickman Cliff Diving (Heiko Hufnagl)

6. Hunger Games: Girl on Fire (Lions Gate Films Inc.)

7. Flashlight ? (iHandy Inc.)

8. Facebook (Facebook, Inc.)

9. Demolition Master: Project Implode All (AppMania)

10. Plumber Crack (Fluik)

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Top Paid iPad Apps:

1. Angry Birds Space HD (Rovio Mobile Ltd.)

2. Draw Something by OMGPOP (OMGPOP)

3. Angry Birds Space (Rovio Mobile Ltd.)

4. iPhoto (Apple)

5. Pages (Apple)

6. Where's My Water? (Disney)

7. Penultimate (Cocoa Box Design LLC)

8. Infinity Blade (Chair Entertainment Group, LLC)

9. Clear Vision (17+) (FDG Entertainment)

10. Notability - Take Notes & Annotate PDFs with Dropbox Sync (Ginger Labs)

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Top Free iPad Apps:

1. Draw Something Free (OMGPOP)

2. Paper by FiftyThree (FiftyThree, Inc.)

3. Magic Piano (Smule)

4. Skype for iPad (Skype Software S.a.r.l)

5. LEGO Ninjago: Rise of the Snakes (The LEGO Group)

6. iBooks (Apple)

7. Kindle - Read Books, Magazines & More - Over 1 Million eBooks & Newspapers (AMZN Mobile LLC)

8. Facebook (Facebook, Inc.)

9. Temple Run (Imangi Studios, LLC)

10. Hunger Games: Girl on Fire (Lions Gate Films Inc.)

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/03/2729411/the-top-iphone-and-ipad-apps-on.html#storylink=cpy

GCE Announces Big Data and Analytics Cloud Solution


GCE’s Big Data framework enables government agencies and organizations to rapidly and cost effectively store, manage, and analyze growing volumes of data

Reston, VA (PRWEB) April 03, 2012
GCE today announced its SMART Cloud for Big Data and Analytics – a Big Data framework for storing and managing data and a toolset for performing consumer-grade search and analysis on that data.
GCE, a Cloud pioneer in the Federal market, built the SMART Cloud solution using open-source technologies such as Hadoop, the Apache open-source tools developed by industry leaders. With this solution, business users are empowered to Search, Mash, Analyze, Research, and Target their data – posing questions and exploring results with unprecedented speed and scale. The GCE solution is ideally suited for both government agencies and commercial enterprises struggling to gain rapid insight from large volumes of data. GCE’s Big Data solution is hosted on the GCE Cloud and requires no capital investment.
The Obama Administration announced its “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” last week – reinforcing the role that innovative tools and technologies can play ushering in new ways to harness, analyze, and extract actionable insights from the growing volume of digital data. GCE has already deployed its SMART Cloud solution for several customers of its financial management and procurement data Clouds.
“Today we all have consumer-grade expectations when it comes to extracting meaningful information from our business systems, however, existing enterprise-grade solutions cannot match these expectations,” says Ray Muslimani, GCE President and CEO. “The GCE SMART Cloud delivers the ability to search and analyze the data with the same intuitive tools and performance expectations consumers take for granted.”
About GCE

For more than a decade, GCE has been an established industry leader in the development of innovative Cloud solutions. The GCE Cloud offers a wide range of business services, including financial management, asset management, procurement, Big Data, and litigation support services. For more information, visit at http://www.GCEcloud.com.

iPhone sales higher then all other smartphones



Sure, we all know the Apple iPhone is popular. It seems like everyone and their mother has one. So this news may come as no surprise: The Apple iPhone continues to crush the competition.
According to market analyst Mike Walkley, "iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon." With those kind of sales, is it any wonder that Apple is currently the world's most valuable company?
Can Apple continue its dominance over the market? There are a number of hot new smartphones out there there like the Nokia Lumia 900 with a shot at stealing some attention from Apple. The Samsung Galaxy line is selling well too, and will likely grow in market share, according to Walkley. Then again, Apple is expected to announce and release its iPhone 5 later this year, which could suck all the air out of an already rareified room.

Source: http://allthingsd.com