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"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.""

There is no argument that Apple used to make the world's best smart phones. But, with the long awaited iPhone 5 coming out recently, there are some arguments spreading on the cyberspace that Apple just released a somewhat disappointing iPhone. Some even goes further, stating that making a previous phone taller, thinner and lighter does not qualify as innovation. Others say that even Galaxy S III from Samsung belittles iPhone 5. True or not, you have you own verdicts. As said, its Retina display features a 1136*640 resolution and 326 ppi, now, let's convert a high definition Blu-ray movie for this enlarged screen to see if it is worthy of your investment. Check this tutorial thoroughly to see how to do that by DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper. It's as easy as you do for iPhone 4S and others.

"If you've been following mobile goings on over the past few weeks you'll know that those affable Finns at Nokia revealed their first Windows phone Mango devices in the form of Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 at that Nokia World thing t'other week. However, it would appear that there is one smartphone that Nokia have been keeping under wraps. Until now that is …"

The iPhone maker is said to be managing advertisement mechanisms that help promoters to reach user information from its mobile products. As reports say recently from TechCrunch who got from hidden industry sources that Apple's App Review people is knocking out all those apps that uses "cookie tracking."

Succeeding the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 has been available on market for nearly one month since its first landing in nine countries on Sep. 21. This touchscreen-based smart phone developed by Apple grasps 2 million orders within 24 hours it accepts pre-orders beginning on 14th that month. Escalating into a slimmer, thinner and lighter model that features 4-inch high resolution display of 1136*630, iPhone 5 is the first one of its series to support a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, which definitely enhances the visual experience to a higher level. If you have one in your hand, you probably can take a deeper look at this improved display, say, take one of your HD videos onto that screen. DVDFab Video Converter can help you with that process. Check this tutorial out below.

Amazon, the retail giant recently rolled out a mobile App store that aims exclusive services for Chinese users. This signals that the U.S based giant is pushing its Kindle devices to grab a share in China market. The move potentially arrives with a fresh version of App store that is developed in Chinese language.

PS Vita from Sony is a great game console and at the same time, an excellent video player on the go. Gamers can play video games they love best and when feel tired, they can also watch movies, TV shows and other videos on the splendid display coming along with the console. The question is that how to convert videos to play on PS Vita, when you have a Mac computer at home? That is pretty much as easy as you do on a Windows PC, what you need is simply a piece of Mac Video Converter software that converts all kinds of videos to PS Vita compatible videos to play whenever you go. DVDFab Video Converter for Mac just comes for that reason.

Every once in awhile a product comes along that doesn't look to create a future product, but to improve on something that already exists. Big Skinny Wallets are an example of that kind of technology, after launching on Kickstarter and promising a high tech wallet that solves five common problems everyone tends to have.

"Now that we have the I.D.E.A. Studio  (Imagination Destination at Episcopal Academy), a new space at my school for interdisciplinary work, I have been excited to collaborate with teachers to imagine new student projects. Our first grade social studies work is centered around an exploration of places, starting with students' bedrooms and expanding out all the way to the Earth. This exploration begins by reading students the book Me on the Map. From there, students begin following a similar examination of places and maps that the girl in the book explores. Over the past few years, I have developed a variety of projects that integrate technology into this work in meaningful ways, such as the intersections between mapping, coding, and the distance between home and school. This year, I wanted to see if we could bring more hands-on making into the curriculum. I began to design a new unit (check out this Google Doc to see it) that would bring together students' expertise and knowledge of current spaces they frequent (e.g., their bedrooms, the classroom, or the lunchroom) and allow them to consider the design elements involved in creating one of those spaces together as a class. This type of project would integrate ISTE standards, Next Generation Science Standards, reading and writing standards, and connect directly to students' expanding exploration of places from Me on the Map."

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.

It seems that wearable smart gadget is the next edge for tech giants. New Bloomberg reports that Samsung, the South Korean smart tech devices maker is latest into chatter to be working on wearable gadget, development of a watch that could do tasks of a smartphone.

Fairly speaking, Apple just made its 4th generation iPad slightly advanced, due to the fact that no much innovation other than a twice powered A6X chip was introduced. Not surprisingly, however, this new version of iPad was dubbed not iPad 4, but iPad with Retina Display. It seems that Apple is misleading consumers that it is the first time they debut the Retina Display on their tablets, which turns out it's not. So, to those who already have the previous generation of iPad, there seems to be no reason to upgrade just 7 months away from their purchases, or even less. To those who are considering an iPad, now there are two choices, iPad 4 the larger size, or iPad Mini the smaller one. More information about it at:http://www.dvdfab.com/video-converter/Convert-Video-for-iPad-4.htm?ad=hcj

The iPad Mini was released not very long ago, with starting price at £269 for the 16GB WiFi model. It features a 7.9-inch display, just less than 2 inch smaller compared to the normal iPad size, but 0.9 inch bigger than the likes of Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD, the pioneers in 7 inch tablet category. Inside, the Mini iPad carries an A5 chip, which is the same as in the iPad 2. It also has a front facing Facetime HD camera and a solid 5-megapixel rear one that is capable if shooting 1080p video. In hardware terms, the easy-to-notice downgrade on this Mini iPad is its screen. It has a 1024 x 768-pixel iPad 2 equivalent display. If you already get one beside you, just take a video onto it to see how it looks when playing movies. You need a video converter software like DVDFab Video Converter to do the conversion, so that iPad Mini can play the converted MP4 video smoothly. Here is a three-step tip for that:

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.

The proud Apple finally enters the 7-inch tablet scope. Although being doubted of its value of existence by many people, no one can deny the fact that iPad Mini is there. 7.9 inch also attracts critics' questionings that if it is proper to define this close-to-8-inch tablet as a 7 inch product. Plus without the shinning Retina Display, folks can't help asking, is this screen considered inferior? Apple's answer to this would be ambiguous, because they do not want to say that its new iPad model is labeled with a second class tag.

The people at Mac Daily News have acquired reports from a source that has offered them with tips that in the earlier periods have turned true: Apple will bring out a refreshed range of Mac Pros. The source cites the fresh line will be launched in some time during this month, but has not cleared any specific date or time.

Latest acquisition by Yahoo is Xobni, an initial landscape that is fully dedicated to email management. It is just unveiled on the blog of the company. Foremost reports suggest that the buying was somewhere over $30 million but TechCrunch has knowledge that the sum agreed for the deal will be more than $60 million.

Samsung is a tech giant from South Korea that gained vast & rapid popularity with its outstanding smartphones & tabs.Recent great news by this company is that it is going to report a huge profit of £ 4.5 billion that is earned from its bloomed smartphone sales and hi-end TVs.

"At its recent BlackBerry World conference RIM indicated that it was moving away from the traditional BlackBerry form factor and looking to build handsets featuring large touchscreens. CEO Thorsten Heins did say that the Canadian manufacturer was not going to abandon the physical keypad entirely but that the initial slew of BB10 Os devices will be full-touchscreen handsets."