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"Life insurers aren't usually regarded as the sort of companies where adrenaline rules - and you might think that Royal London, one of the country's biggest mutually owned insurers, would be more sleepy than most. Someone at the company obviously has a yearning for a more high-octane life, however. Royal London has just extended its contract to sponsor the Isle of Man TT motorbike race for another three years. It's a deal that brings the company worldwide publicity, although maybe an odd one for an insurer, given the regular accidents."

Adobe lately is a company that ventures on cloud system trusted by many companies like Salesforce.com and NetSuite and many others that are active in anti-virus or software business.

"Steve Jobs famously vowed to spend his dying breath and all of Apple's cash to destroy Google's Android operating system. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Google CEO Larry Page said that despite Jobs's rather public hatred, "the Android differences were actually for show." Page claimed that, "For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better." The CEO shot down rumors that the two were bitter rivals, instead noting that "I had a relationship with Steve." Despite Jobs's ailing health at the time, Apple's co-founder reached out to Page for a casual talk. "He was quite sick. I took it as an honor that he wanted to spend some time with me," Page said. "I figured he wanted to spend time with his family at that point. He had a lot of interesting insights about how to run a company and that was pretty much what we discussed.""

"Google's dominance in mobile advertising and Apple's growing iAd platform on iOS convinced Samsung to launch its own rival advertising platform called "Samsung AdHub Market." The Wall Street Journal reported the company officially announced the platform on Tuesday, which uses technology from OpenX Technologies Inc. According to the report, the company will allow advertisers to buy space within apps through developers and Samsung. The ads are expected to appear on Samsung phones and tablets sometime in last half of the year."

"To anyone who doesn't read the business pages, T-Mobile may seem like a powerhouse mobile company. Its clever holiday ad campaign has been ubiquitous this fall, touting the carrier's impressive selection of smartphones and value-driven service plans. T-Mobile stores are everywhere, and winsome Canadian Carly Foulkes has become almost an iconic spokesmodel for the company. You might even think T-Mobile is a wireless carrier on par with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. You might think that, but you'd be wrong."

Toshiba, the leading Japanese electronics component making company, has announced the availability of its upcoming tablet, the Excite 10 LE. The company confirmed this week that the Android-powered Excite 10 LE tablet will be available for purchase for $529 on March 6

It has been announced that processor giant Intel has finalized negotiations with Israeli company Omek International and acquired their gesture computing technology. The price tag? A cool $40 million, making it an expensive and surprising takeover.

Eight major technology companies have banded together to ask President Barack Obama to reform the current US intelligence operations that have led to massive data collection with next to no legal oversight.

Should the U.S. government force tech companies to put a backdoor into encrypted information on communications devices to allow them to easily decrypt an individual's information?

"Although Apple's new iPhone 4S is already on sale in U.S, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan, the Cupertino-based company had said that a wider international rollout would begin on October 28, so today the company has opened up preorders for customers in 22 more countries ahead of its official launch."

One of Microsoft's most senior lawyers has accused Google's Android software of "standing on the shoulders" of companies such as his own in the smartphone wars, and that the flurry of patent lawsuits going on between companies involved in the field is only natural in a rapidly developing field.

There was once a point in history when advertising consisted of radio, newspaper, and billboard ads. This time, however, quickly came to an end with the invention of computers and the World Wide Web. Nowadays, a company without an online presence and online storage capabilities is basically working in an ancient world relative to its competitors. Unfortunately, even the most advanced technology can fail, and in the modern world, a data disaster can lose a company thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes. This is why it's so essential for a business owner or organizational leader to understand the dangers of data loss.

Some really big news from Microsoft this morning! It has been announced that they have come to an agreement with mobile handset company Nokia, and will be buying them out.

The CEO of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma is showing his interest to buy Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), the company is the initial party to openly showing its interest in acquiring Yahoo, when he discussed regarding battling internet firm while debate at Stanford University.

Even after Microsoft's major efforts to eliminate the gap between PC OS and modern tablet OS with new Windows 8, it did not turn out as customer's favourite. The company spent a fortune and upgraded the technology to harness people's needs with PC/tablet OS.

Nokia, the earlier leader & present struggler wishes that US court needs to put an arbitration agreement that can harm RIM's majority smartphones. The California Court is said to have received request from Nokia which suggests it to bring a ruling that would capably stop Research In Motion from selling handhelds with wireless LAN facilities until the time frame the companies can sort on patent royalty costs.

After quite a bit of hype, Razer has announced the latest two additions to the laptop family. Blade, a 14″ model that the company is dubbing the "world's thinnest gaming laptop" and Blade Pro, a 17″ version.

Samsung, the Korean smartphone maker has usually been loud about its 7 inch tablet and it is highly cited that the company is too much anxious to bring Galaxy Note 7. In early December, a model marked as GT-N5100 had crop out in NenaMark2 and now is viewed at GLBenchmark.

Apple has eventually gone where many of the consumers, techies, and media's have long rumored about. Or, maybe from the day when the original iPad came out, this topic had been argued like thousands of times inside the company, among the decision makers. iPad Mini, just 1.8 inch smaller, brings Apple a fresher tablet experience. As speculated, the new tablet comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64 GB of onboard storage for both the basic Wi-Fi version and the Wi-Fi + Cellular model. But, there is an obvious downscale on its display, which is just on par with the first-gen iPad. Without Retina Display, is this smaller iPad can display crystal clear images? Now let's just convert your high definition Blu-ray movie to MP4 video to play on it. You'll see immediately if it's worth the money in your pocket. DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper, the best Blu-ray Ripper software available on the market, now can help you rip any Blu-ray to iPad Mini compatible MP4 video. See more at: http://www.dvdfab.com/blu-ray-ripper/Convert-Blu-ray-Title-for-iPad-Mini.htm?ad=hcj

It is the first time since iPad that Apple released two iPad models in one new product release event, and it is also the first time that Apple the great company released three iPad models in one fiscal year, it is still the first time that Apple entered a comparatively smaller size tablet line. What makes Apple do this reschedule of throwing out new updates? The pressure partly comes from this 7 inch tablet market, where Amazon and Google have made solid territories, although Apple might not want to admit, and partly comes from its gloomy sales of iPad 3, which has been totally dismissed from Apple Store immediately after iPad 4 board the ship.