By Sudarshana Banerjee Jonathan Ive, senior vice president, Industrial Design with Apple has been awarded a knighthood. Mr. Ive can now call himself Sir Jonathan, being a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), reports BBC. Since 1996, the London-born…
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By Sudarshana Banerjee Facebook has deprecated the Python and C# SDKs, said Alex Himel, engineering manager with Facebook, writing on the Facebook Developer Blog. The GitHub repositories will be made private in April 2012. The social networking giant has also removed…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk LG Electronics and Prada have launched the Prada phone by LG 3.0. The phone runs on Android Gingerbread OS with an update to Android Ice Cream Sandwich scheduled for the second quarter of 2012. The handset features a glossy…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk Look what we found on Google India. And Google New Zealand. It is already December 31 in some parts of the world, and that means the Google doodle have been unveiled to a few fortunate billion. Will Google…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] There are currently 189 bird species on the verge of extinction. To show support for their feathered brethren, Angry Birds has launched a new Angry Birds website to educate fans about endangered species. This new website was launched in support of…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk Sirius XM Radio has introduced the SiriusXM Lynx Portable Radio, the first SiriusXM 2.0 radio that receives an expanded channel lineup via satellite and Internet. Lynx is the most advanced radio ever from SiriusXM, and is built with…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk Raytheon has acquired privately held Henggeler Computer Consultants. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Henggeler Computer Consultants marks Raytheon’s second cybersecurity-related acquisition this month. On December 5, 2011, Raytheon purchased Madison, Ala.-based Pikewerks Corporation.…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk LG Electronics will unveil the world’s largest Ultra Definition (UD) 3D TV at the 2012 International CES, said the company. The TV will combine LG’s passive CINEMA 3D technology and Smart TV functions with UD display technology,…
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Techtaffy Newsdesk Vistaprint has completed its acquisition of Webs Inc., a do-it-yourself suite of websites, Facebook Pages and mobile presence solutions for small businesses. The purchase price was $117.5 million, including $101.3 million in cash and $16.2 million in restricted shares.
Techtaffy Newsdesk Invensas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies, purchased 43 United States and 30 foreign memory technology patents from MoSys for $35 million in cash. MoSys has retained a royalty-free license to the patents to cover its Bandwidth…
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