Apple is World’s most valuable brand, Google close second

For the first time since the beginning of Interbrands’ rating of valuable brands in the world in 2000, Apple becomes the second company to grace the top spot after Coca-Cola had the position for 12 years.

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Quotes for the Week: Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

Ernest Rutherford was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He reportedly discovered the alpha, beta, and gamma emissions during radioactive decay.

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Apple hires top Nike designer

Apple Inc. has apparently recruited top Nike design director Ben Shaffer to fuel more rumours about Apple’s intent in wearable devices.

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16-year-old boy arrested for the biggest ever cyber attack

An unidentified British 16-year-old boy was arrested secretly in London for his part in the biggest cyber-attack that occurred earlier this year on Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus.

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Superlatives that shows China is a leader in technology

China is one of the main agents of the resurgence of Asian countries in world development. Many Asian countries have improved in technology and living standard and are now among the elites in the world.

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete was a mistake – Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder and the current richest man in the world, Bill Gates has admitted that using Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot a computer as a way to log into windows was a mistake.

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Samsung to release a smartphone with a curved screen in October

Samsung Mobile has announced in a press event in Seoul, Korea that it will be introducing a smartphone with a curved plastic LED (Light Emitting Diode) screen to the South Korean market. The event was majorly to show recently released Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear.

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Samsung takes a leaf out of Apple’s book

Apple recently unveiled its high end iPhone 5S smartphone and the gold-coloured version has been a hit with consumers as it was out of stock long before other colours. This eventually led to Apple requesting an increase in production rate of the gold-coloured device.

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Pinterest improves features of article pins

Fast growing social media site Pinterest has decided to bump up the features of articles that are pinned to the site. This was revealed in a blog post on the 24th of September on Pinterest’s official blog by Jon Parise, Software Engineer, Pinterest.

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At last, Blackberry finds a buyer

Struggling smartphone maker Blackberry has agreed a deal with Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited which will see the Canadian company pulled off the stock market and taken private. The deal to buy blackberry is worth about $4.7 billion which is the calculated worth of the company at a perilous moment for the company.

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Microsoft is back again with two tablets

At a press event in New York on the 23rd of September, giant software company, Microsoft unveiled two tablets which are the smaller Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. Microsoft has previously been supplying software to manufacturers but is now involved in making devices to house the software it rolls out.

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iPhone 5S unlocked with a fake finger

The unique fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5S has been made less unique after the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) fooled the iPhone’s Touch ID with a fake fingerprint of the user.

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Blackberry suspends download of BBM for iPhone and Android

The only positive that was expected to come out of last week for Blackberry was the rollout of Blackberry Messenger to iPhones and Android powered devices. Blackberry had earlier announced a loss of about $1bn in the second quarter and its intention to retrieve 4,500 of their duties in the company.

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Quotes for the week: Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

This is the first time we will be bringing you quotes from a female scientist and this is a woman who made a great impact in the field of science while she was alive.

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Blackberry is in trouble…

The negatives have been more than the positives for the Canadian smartphone maker in recent times and it seems the negatives are increasing daily and with threatening details as 4,500 people will lose their jobs while Blackberry lost $1 billion in the second quarter.

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Stephen Elop to get $25m from Microsoft’s Nokia deal

Digital Spy has reported that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will earn up to $25 million when Microsoft’s deal to buy Nokia is finally completed in early 2014.

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Apple increases production of Gold iPhone 5S by 33%

Apple recently launched its high-end smartphone iPhone 5S in three colours: gold, silver, and black colours and it seems the demand has been more than expected for the gold coloured iPhone especially in Asia which Apple targeted with the device.

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Google to release next version of Android OS in October

The next version of the popular Google’s operating system (OS) Android is expected to be released next month and probably along with the launch of Google Nexus 5.

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Some facts about the world’s tallest building

Burj Khalifa is a special building and one with many superlatives apart from being the tallest in the world. Burj Khalifa is not only the tallest building in the world but also the tallest standing man-made object.

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Microsoft extends its iPhone, iPad trade-in to other devices

After a week in which Microsoft announce a trade-in programme that will see consumers get up to $200 when they trade their iPhones or iPads for a Windows phone or a Surface tablet, it has extended the ‘opportunity’ to other devices on other platforms.

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BBM to be available for download on iOS and Android this weekend

A day after announcing its new smartphone Blackberry Z30, Blackberry limited has announced that its highly awaited messaging app will be coming to the two platforms this weekend.

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Blackberry announces its biggest and most advanced smartphone

After the bad reception of Blackberry 10 devices like the Blackberry Q10 and Blackberry Z10, the Canadian company has tried once again to regain its stance in the smartphone market with a new, bigger, faster, and improved smartphone.

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Nokia has postponed Lumia 1520 phablet launch to late October

Contrary to earlier reports that the Lumia 1520 phablets could be launched as early as the26th of this month in New York, another report has surfaced from Pocket-Lint that the launch event would now occur in late October.

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Facebook and Twitter became available in Iran because of…

For those who didn’t know initially, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter were banned in Iran in 2009 after the Iranian government claimed social media aided the protests that broke out in 2009 as a result of the re-election of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term.

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Apple may unveil iPads and Macs by October

After its popular event earlier this month where Apple unveiled its premium iPhone 5S and the low-budget iPhone 5C, it is expected that Apple will hold another event in October where it will unveil series of products.

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