In the market for a Porsche Carrera GT2? First, congratulations on being our hero. Next, be prepared for one of the most expensive ownership experiences on the road, Porsche parts and labor not withstanding. According to a study by Insure.com, the Carrera GT2 is the most expensive vehicle to insure out of all 2010 models in the U.S., running owners almost $3,000 annually. And that’s assuming the owner is a 40-year old male with an excellent driving record, two categories a large percentage of Americans don’t fit into.
The Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 is a two-door, two-seater sports car publicly unveiled by Lamborghini at the Geneva Motor Show on 28 February 2011, five months after its initial unveiling in Sant'Agata Bolognese.[2] Internally codenamed LB834,[3] the Aventador was designed to replace the ten-year-old Murciélago as the new flagship model in the Lamborghini lineup starting in 2011.[4] Soon after the Aventador unveiling, Lamborghini announced that it had already sold over 12 months of the production vehicles, with deliveries starting in the second half of 2011.[5] The suggested retail price is €255,000 in Europe, £201,900 in the UK and $379,700 in the U.S.
Rise of m-Commerce and converged services contribute to increased risk of leakage and potential for fraud
20 per cent of telecom operators currently report leakages of up to 10per cent of their revenue
Revenue Assurance functions with too little influence in many telecom businesses
20 per cent of telecom operators currently report leakages of up to 10per cent of their revenue
Revenue Assurance functions with too little influence in many telecom businesses
f you drive one of the hottest performance vehicles around, you might think that sky high car insurance is just par for the course. However, if you’re savvy in your approach to supercar insurance you can actually secure an affordable deal.
Why does it cost more to insure a supercar ?
Supercars certainly look good, their drivers often take good care of them and they are usually kept in fantastic condition – so why do they cost more to insure?
Why does it cost more to insure a supercar ?
Supercars certainly look good, their drivers often take good care of them and they are usually kept in fantastic condition – so why do they cost more to insure?
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Following the news that Boris Johnson has signed a deal with Virgin Media to enable calling on the Tube, (see our previous story here), London Overground has announced that commuters will get free Wi-Fi access at up to 56 London stations. This follows an agreement between London Overground and public Wi-Fi network operator, The Cloud. Although the roll out isn’t exactly detailed, some should have it in time for the London 2012 Olympics. See Rightmobilephone‘s blog here for list of first stations to offer it. One danger, according to Kineto Wireless is that the current system of leaving wireless access points(WAPs) Open brings risks to smartphone, tablet and notebook owners. The free London Overground service is available in the vicinity of the station for up to 60 minutes.
A look at how selected makers of phones and other consumer-electronic gadgets are faring:
Jan. 19: Microsoft Corp. says it shipped 8.2 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the latest quarter, compared with 6.3 million a year earlier.
Jan. 24: Apple Inc. says it sold 37 million iPhones in the latest quarter, double the figure of the previous quarter and more than twice as many as it sold in the holiday quarter of 2010. The iPhone 4S launched during the quarter, and Sprint Nextel Corp. joined as an iPhone carrier in the U.S. Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads in the quarter, again more than doubling sales from a year earlier. Apple sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, up 26 percent from a year earlier. The company sold 21 percent fewer iPods, at 15.4 million.
Jan. 26: Nokia Corp. says it sold 19.6 million smartphones in the quarter, down from 28 million a year earlier. That includes more than 1 million Lumia devices running Microsoft's Windows software. The Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 hit stores in Europe and Asia in November, while T-Mobile started offering the 710 in the U.S. in January.
Nintendo Co. says worldwide sales of the 3DS handheld totaled 11.43 million in the last nine months of 2011. The company is now forecasting sales of 14 million machines for the fiscal year through March 2012, down from an earlier 16 million, despite an August price cut. Nintendo sold 9 million Wii machines during the nine-month period. It is now expecting to sell 10 million Wii machines in the year ending March, down from an initial estimate of 13 million, which was revised lower to 12 million in July. The company did not provide quarterly breakdowns.
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. says it shipped 10.5 million mobile devices in the quarter, including 5.3 million smartphones and 200,000 tablet computers. A year earlier, the company shipped 11.3 million devices, including 4.9 million smartphones.
Jan. 27: Samsung Electronics Co., maker of the Galaxy line of phones and tablet computers, doesn't disclose the number of smartphones it sells, but it says shipments rose by about 30 percent in the latest quarter, compared with the third quarter. No comparison to the previous year was given.
Feb. 2: Sony Corp. says it sold 6.5 million PlayStation 3 units, on par with the 6.3 million in the 2010 holiday quarter. Sales of the PlayStation Portable declined to 2.4 million, from 3.6 million a year earlier.
Feb. 6: HTC Corp. says several newly introduced 4G and other high-end smartphones disappointed as competition grew more intense from Apple and Samsung. It predicts its revenue will drop further in the current quarter, but will return to normal after that with the introduction of several new models. HTC doesn't disclose the number of devices it sold, citing competitive reasons.
Feb. 9: Lenovo Group Ltd. says it shipped 14 million PCs, up from 10.2 million a year earlier.
Feb. 22: Garmin Ltd. says it sold 6.1 million devices during the quarter, roughly the same as the year before. Higher volumes in outdoor, fitness and marine devices helped offset declines in auto navigation devices.
New Apple iPad. (Apple) My new iPad is going back to the store.
I paid $600 for the 32GB Wi-Fi model, and although I like it well enough, I don't think it's worth the money.
Before the Apple faithful take my head off, allow me to explain -- and to note that I'm keeping my original iPad. Also, I have such mad love for my iPhone 4S, I want to cook it breakfast every morning. You get my meaning; this isn't just wayward iPad-bashing.
When Apple announced the new tablet, I was underwhelmed but intrigued. I'd skipped the iPad 2, so I figured I "owed" myself this upgrade. Plus, it would be a business expense; I do write for a blog called iPad Atlas, after all.
Mostly, though, I got caught up in the hype. After reading gushing praise for the new iPad's Retina Display and blazing processor, I had to see what the fuss was about.
The fuss, it turns out, was more overblown than a Kardashian wedding. The screen? Yep, it's nice. Does it make my eyes leap from my skull and dance a marimba cha-cha? No. Neither does it cure cancer or introduce me to supermodels, despite what some drooling bloggers intimated.
The new iPad is admirably peppy, though I never found my original iPad to be slow. My kids enjoy messing with the built-in cameras, but that's a luxury I certainly don't need. Using an iPad to snap photos or video is like driving a monster truck to the grocery store: uncomfortable and impractical (to say nothing of showy). The only thing that I'll actually miss is big-screen FaceTime -- but for those moments I can always Skype on my laptop.
4G LTE? Again, nice, but I have no need for it. And that leaves...what? The new iPad is a little slimmer, a little faster, and little easier on the eyes than the original. Not enough, Apple. I want my $600 back.
As fate would have it, a Kindle Fire arrived shortly after the new iPad. (It's a loaner, due back to Amazon in about a week.) As you're no doubt aware, it's a hair less expensive: $199.
Yes, it has a smaller screen, less storage, no cameras, no 3G/4G, no Bluetooth, and so on. But you know what? I love the little guy, because it better suits my needs.
For one thing, it's way more comfortable for reading. I consume a lot of e-books, but I find the iPad too big and cumbersome -- especially for reading in bed. The Fire is small enough and light enough that I can lie on my side and grip it one-handed. (Shut up.)
I also like magazines, most notably Entertainment Weekly, Time, and Wired. The app versions of all three work nicely on the iPad, but I like the Kindle Fire (Android) versions even better. Maybe it's because I was expecting a shrunken, ill-fitting stab at accommodating the smaller screen, but the formatting is just beautiful. Reading these mags on the Fire is a pleasure.
Music, movies, TV shows, games, apps -- the Kindle Fire excels at all this stuff, just like the iPad. I'm streaming "This Is Spinal Tap" (courtesy of Amazon Prime, an uneven but compelling service) as I type this, and it looks exquisite. Granted, the paltry 8GB of storage limits how much media I can take with me, but I'm mostly an around-the-house user anyway. (That's why I get by just fine with Wi-Fi.)
I also like the Kindle's modern, media-centric, dare-I-say-sexy interface, which actually makes Apple's UI seem rather dated.
So here's the upshot: for one-third of what I paid for the new iPad, I can accomplish 95 percent of what I want to do with a tablet, and with a smaller form factor I find more appealing. Different strokes for different folks, of course, but for me this is a no-brainer: I'm returning the new iPad and jumping into the Fire.
Your thoughts?
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Acquisition combines mobile and security expertise, resulting in even stronger enterprise MDM solutions
Press release
April 3rd 2012. Complete security leader, Sophos, has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DIALOGS, a privately-held provider of mobile management solutions, headquartered in Germany. DIALOGS, one of Europe’s leading mobile device management (MDM) providers with customers such as BMW AG, Daimler AG, Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp, brings twenty years of experience in mobile product development. This acquisition further solidifies Sophos’s leadership position within enterprise mobile protection.The increased prevalence of smartphones and tablets represents a major shift in the way people and businesses work and collaborate. IT staff at enterprises of all sizes are faced with new challenges and risks in handling and securing an array of corporate and personal devices. That, coupled with the ever-expanding usage of apps and the threat of device loss or theft, reinforces the importance of mobile data protection solutions.
In Europe, Nokia has been proudly boasting that has released the third software update for the Lumia 800 W7 Mango phone in only four months. There are plenty of disappointments, however. One of them will almost certainly focus around the fact that while Wi-fi tethering has been promised – it’s not available via this release (1600.2487.8107.12070). Also there appears to be no fix for the omission of auto-answering with Bluetooth headsets. Plus the software is going to be released in phases. So in the UK, for example, the first Lumia 800 owners to be able to receive the update will be on Vodafone, BT and certain 3 UK handsets. [We assume Nokia means 3 when it says H3G – Hutchison 3G.] It looks like some Lumia 800s purchased through retail will be able to receive the update as well.What this update does promise to deliver however is “significant improvements in battery performance and power management.”
The company claims in its Conversations by Nokia blog here that the average user should see between 25 to 30 hours of battery life with on a typical daily usage pattern.
It says that given the Lumia 800 sports a 1450 mAh battery, is now among the top performers in battery life for the key measures Nokia has concentrated on.
Interestingly, the original date scheduled for this update was April 18th [2012] and the first examples were released on 28th March [2012]. Expect further releases on April 4th, 11th and 18 [2012].
Now here’s the curious bit. These updates are being delivered via Microsoft’s desktop PC software. Zune (aka Windows Phone 7 Connector) on the Apple Mac.
Which is curious because there is very definitely an OTA (over-theair) upgrade capability built into W7 Mango. Go to ‘Settings’, and scroll down to ‘Phone update’ to see it.
However, since Nokia is concentrating on delivering these updates through Zune, notification that the new release has come out shouldn’t appear. You’ll have to try connecting you handset to Zune on the dates given above.
There’s absolutely no mention of it in the Conversations blog so Nokia doesn’t appear to have fixed a bug that GoMobile News has encountered.
When you pair a Bluetooth handset with the Lumia 800 certain functionality is provided. Bizarrely, if you have this W7 Mango phone configured to read out your received text messages – logical while you are travelling, the handset reads them to you via your headset.
However, despite searching everywhere for the setting – GoMobile News can find no way to force the handset to auto-answer incoming calls.
Which is curious because Microsoft claims that Windows Phone 7 supports all the kinds of Bluetooth profiles you’d expect to make auto-answer work.
There’s a list here which mentions Hands Free Profile (HFP 1.5) and Headset Profile (HSP 1.1).
In our humble opinion it can’t have implemented these profiles properly. Which goes back to our gripes with no Profiles with the Nokia Lumias story.
If you want to check whether your mobile operator in you particular geography has actually released the third update visit this site. Tony is currently Editor of GoMobile News.
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TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client used by millions, has been taken offline after a possible bug was discovered which appears to give some users access to other people’s accounts.
“TweetDeck is currently down while we look into an issue. Apologies for the inconvenience,” the company said — in a tweet, naturally.
According to a TechCrunch report on Friday, the bug was discovered by a guy called Geoff Evason, a TweetDeck user living in Sydney, Australia.
BEIJING (AP) — Consumers probably won't have to pay more for iPads, iPhones and other popular consumer electronics despite a Chinese company's pledge to trim work hours and raise wages for its hardscrabble assembly workers.
The paychecks have already been steadily growing even before this week's pledge, and labor expenses remain a small portion of the total bill for most gadgets made in China.
The paychecks have already been steadily growing even before this week's pledge, and labor expenses remain a small portion of the total bill for most gadgets made in China.
Oh dear. The Canadian smartphone manufacturer has done it again and managed to generate headlines which were almost diametrically opposite to its real intentions. Lack of Press training strikes again. The gaff centres around remarks apparently made by newly appointed CEO, Thorsten Heins, during his announcement of RIM’s quarterly report. Shipment and earnings figures fell below analysts’ expectations. What he was actually talking about was a ‘re-doubling’ of the company’s efforts in the enterprise space which were actually interpreted as headlines such as ‘BlackBerry maker gives up on consumer market’ and ‘Rim is pulling out of the consumer market’. These headlines have generated a mixed reaction from the industry itself with some believing RIM should put itself up for sale. Others argue that RIM should concentrate on low-end devices where Apple doesn’t compete.GoMobile News can recall comments made by Psion’s management which were interpreted as a sign it was pulling out of the consumer PDA market. So it did. We don’t think RIM should make the same mistake.