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Apple is preparing to announce two different iPhone model with two larger screen options. New iPhones will come in 2014 with the 4.5-inch and larger than 5-inch screen version. Apple fans have been dreaming for the larger screen iPhone for years but their hands are still empty. A good news comes from The Wall Street Journal’s latest report. According to the report, Apple is preparing to announce two different iPhone. We will see two different iPhone model in 2014. The biggest iPhone will have over 5-inch screen, and the other will have a 4.5-inch screen. According to the different sources, the iPhone 6 will ship in 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch display options. Samsung is Apple’s tough rival, and Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 are two great devices that people want to buy. However, Apple wants to be in the larger screen market and prepares its 5.7-inch iPhone with the larger screen. We don’t konw the exact dates when two devices will hit the market; but according to the rumors, Apple is r...

Samsung is working on its new flagship Galaxy S5 and we don’t know the exact time when the company will announce it. We know some specs of the smartphone from the rumors and there is a home screen picture of Galaxy S5. We know that Samsung has been working for its new smartphone Galaxy S5 and ready to present in this year.  As rumors, Samsung will reveal its flagship in London in March. The company will prepare a magnificent show like last year which was set for Galaxy S4. Tech geeks wonder about the body design and its home screen. Well, at @evleaks twitter account has been posted an image of so-called Samsung Galaxy S5′s home screen. This twitter account is known for important smartphone leaks and rumors. https://twitter.com/evleaks/ You can see the home screen above and it displays some information about your sports, flights, orders, concerts and social accounts. It seems like Windows Phone 8 style. I think this could be good idea or not, we will see when the user comment about smar...

Apple made a spot for its new tablet iPad Air, and challenge to the people or companies who think the tablets are not useful to create. Apple’s new spot shows examples of people using iPads for their diffucult projects which they can not use their laptops in. Laptops were very useful and people had chosen these devices, because laptops were portable and you can carry these devices easily. Although they are portable, these devices are still heavy and their batteries are not enough to use for daily works. Apple’s latest spot demonstrates that iPads are as powerful as laptops, and these devices are superior in some situations such as flexible purposes. People want to use iPads in their real worlds that would be irritating and imposible to use laptops. Laptops are not the right tool for a lot of jobs which need flexibility. So, tablets are easy handle and you can move them easily, and they have enough power to make your projects real. However, when you travel, laptops are not easy tool to ...

Intel, the world’s leading processor company is about to cut almost 5,300 jobs in 2014. The company announced Friday that it plans to cut five percent of its global workforce and focus at future technologies. The company said Friday that they will cut their workforce in 2014. Intel spokesman Chris Kraeuter said that cutting human resources are necessary for the future strategy and the company is trying to establish new business models for future tech. The announcement comes a day after Intel released its earnings report and, the report reaffirmed that PC shipments are in rapid decline around the World and the company has to change its business models to adapt the new world system. Intel plans to open its new chip factory in Arizona that will cost for $5 billion. The new factory will be targeted at future technologies and Intel plans to produce new tech mobile processors and chipsets for tablets and smartphones. Intel has 107,000 employees around the world and the company will cut its f...

CEO Tim Cook made a press conference today in China and spoke to Chinese press about the launch of iPhone. Cook revealed that Apple sold almost 10 million iPhones in China and the result is satisfying. Apple started to sell iPhone with the partnership of China Mobile, and Tim Cook was in Beijing today to make a press conference about the launch of this partnership. Tim Cook explained the company’s view of the Chinese smartphone market, and about the partnership. Apple sold more iPhones in the last quarter of 2013 in Chinese market. So company sold 10.3 million iPhones in China alone, and this was the record for that region. That’s why the company selected China as a launc market for its new iPhone models. There was grey market problem in China, and Apple wasn’t happy with this model. So, Apple decided to open an Apple Store in China and tried to sell iPhones directly to consumers. We can say that was the good strategy looking for the sales results. As a result, Apple’s decision seems t...

Google bought the creator of the smart thermostat and smoke detector firm Nest.  The compay is the leader in the sector and this acquisition costs $3.2 billion to Google and it was the surprising news for the sector. Nest is the company which creates smarter houshold devices with good design and Internet-enabled features. Because of these features, the company has earned a good reputation and started to save Money. The Company’s CEO Tony Fadell is a former employee of Apple and worked on the Project of iPod. Tony says that their products are upgradeable like your smartphone and they have advanced technology which you can control it with your android or iPhone smartphones. Company has two important devices which make profit. Well, the Nest Thermostat is for $249, and the Nest detector is for $129. You can set the thermostat and the protector via internet with your smartphone or tablet. For example, you can connect to device and adjust temperature. The device also connects to internet an...

It’s not much new that we have heard about 4K TV but, there is still multimedia source problem for this format. Anyway, Sony has a solution for everybody and was announced its Sony 4K Comcorder costs $1,999 at CES Tech Fair in Las Vegas. If you are interested in 4K HD televisions, we can say that you have a problem. Problem is multimedia sources and even if you have a 4K TV, you can not watch anything or you can watch just limited videos that sony or samsung had created. In addition, you can not play games on your 4K television, because PS3 and Xbox One; but fortunately there is now Sony PlayStation 4 game console which supports 4K TVs and give ability you to play all kind of games on your 4K Full HD TVs. By the way, if you want to produce your own real 4K video, you need to have a 4K camera. As you know, there is no 4K camera yet, even if there is one, it must be so expensive that you can not afford it. Thanks to Sony 4K Comcorder that costs just for $1,999. Sony FDR-AX100 Handycam is...

Samsung will release its new smartphone Galaxy S5 in April, and according to the rumors, new device will have iris scanning technology. Many people are waiting for iris recognition technology, and this tech will be the future’s tech. Lee Young Hee, vice president of the Samsung’s mobile said about the technology : “Many People are fanatical about iris recognition technology. We are studying the possibility.” Lee told Bloomberg at CES technology fair in Las Vegas. Samsung did not reveal many specifics about the Galaxy S5, but we now some specs from the rumors. The new device will have Quad HD screen and has a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440. The device screen will be 5.5-inch. Galaxy S5 has fingerprint and eye scannes. Galaxy S5 is expected to have 64-bit processor and 3GB of RAM. The device’s battery will be huge 4,000 mAH, and you can surf on the net in hours. S5′s camera will be 16 megapixel with the HD video recording. Samsung will announce its flagship at Mobile World Congress 2014, an...

3D printers are not new in our World. We have seen some startup projects last year and the most famous one was the Formlab’s Project: “Form One”. However, these startup firms are not alone, and there is a tough rival  at CES Tech Fair. Hang on tight, MakerBot 3D printer may change your World, and the MakerBot will give you ability to create what you think. Before years, when you dream something and want to make it real, it wasn’t possible. But now, by MakerBot you can make your dream into reality. We said that there are some companies who have their own 3D printers, but the MakerBot is more aesthetic of them. You can create houses, cars, books, toys, and etc. The MakerBot uses the materials such as metal and plastic. For example, you can print out legos with this 3D printer. Bre Pettis, CEO of the company who invented the MakerBot, made a presentation at CES tech fair. Also give a short information about MakerBot Academy and told he wants to push MakerBots into every classroom before t...

Sony announced PlayStation 4 last summer to all the World and the console has started to have being sold last month. Well,  when i heard the news, i started to think, if i could play my old PS3 games on the new console PS4. And i believe that there must be somebody who thinks in the same way. Okay, i don’t want to wait you and giving you the good answer; yes, you can play all the games which was published by Sony and it doesn’t matter PlayStation 1,2 or 3 version. This is really good news for me, and i am so happy to be heard this news. It’s also good news for PlayStation fans and console owners who have the older version. The president of Sony Computer Entertainment, Andrew House announced this good news at the CES today, and he told tech geeks that people will Access to games from previous generations. PlayStation 4 comes with new features such as owner individual title. You will pay for individual title and subscription plans and, you will be able to play multiple games. We still do...

CES 2014 started yesterday and will be organized between January 5 - 10, 2014 at  Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. Well we see a lot of new tech devices in this fair such as 4K Ultra HD TV and new notebooks. One of them is a Chromebook that Toshiba unveils at CES. Toshiba has just unveiled its new Choromebook that is running the operating system of Google Chrome OS. The new Chromebook has 13.3-inch display. Toshiba’s new chromebook will be on the shelves on February 16. We know Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Sony, Samsung and HP have chromebooks, and they started to sell 2 years ago. Toshiba step into Chrome territory because PC sales are dropping and companies tries to find new solutions to increase sales. Chromebooks are as light as air and users like them. Toshiba’s new Chromebook is powered by Intel and it’s processor is Haswell. With this processors, the new Chromebook’s battery life is almost nine hours. As for under the hood, the laptop has Haswell processor which is powered with 16...

As you know, the tablet sales are increasing and doubled in 2013. According to reports, 90% of tablets sold to the existing PC owners. Well, will tablets win the PC and get to the throne? That’s really difficult question to answer, but we know that PC sales are dropping. The PC sector is in crisis and sales are not good for companies such as IBM, Asus, and Sony. Windows 8 has come to save the PC companies but it wasn’t good idea to save the sector. Microsoft played its trump card Windows 8 which has touch screen capacity and a complete new system. But buyers didn’t give big response to the new software. However, after the release of Windows 8, PC sales continues to fall. As a result, Windows 8 failed to attract people. On the other side of the sector, some companies are so happy of the sales of their products. One of these companies is Apple, with the iPad sales are increasing and iPhone 5s broke its sales record. As Samsung, the firm is also very happy of their sales. Samsung is the s...

Facebook has all the data that we share, and a couple of facebook users think the company collects their unpublished post and comments. Online activism group Care2 claims that Facebook reads their unpublished posts and disabling the posts from draft inbox. Facebook has become a crucial tool for activism and the social media platform allows activists to connect and communicate with each other in order to arrange meeting and boykots. But, Facebook has been disabling pages related to activism and meetings. In addition to that, the pages are being deleted completely. Facebook personnel explained that the boycott pages didn’t meet the Terms of Service. In addition, Facebook doesn’t allow blaming the companies or people that is related to the activist page. But on the contrary online petition webpage Care2 doesn’t accept the claims. Care2 says they have more than 27.000 signatures from people who think that Facebook reads their unposted thoughts. The group says facebook reads unposted commen...

iDrive is online backup service and it announced a new service that allows 1TB hard disk space to users who want to backup their important data. It’s now easy to backup your data. Today iDrive made an announcement for its new service that allows to back up large amounts of data. The company also provides online cloud service and you can back up your sensitive data to the cloud. Well if you think it would take a long time to back up huge amounts of data! The company found a solution for this. Online Backup Service iDrive Allows 1TB Disc Space It takes for days to upload hundreds of gigabytes of data and you don’t want to wait or you don’t have the enough quota. Don’t worry about that, the company ships hard disks to its users and you can back up to the data to the cloud. You can then ship the hard disk to iDrive and the company enables your data on your account. After all, when your data is on the server, you can just send incremental updates to iDrive and your data is up to date. The s...

Samsung’s latest flagship Galaxy S4 has been released on April 26 and liked for everyone. Now, Samsung is moving to diversify its phone line with Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 Mini, S4 Active and S4 Zoom versions and each device has its unique feature. The latest flagship Samsung Galaxy S4 has been released in the first quarter of this year and hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. According to Samsung, S4 sales are the fastest ever sell rate for any of its smartphones. However, Samsung has been introduced its new S4 devices and each device has its unique identity. Samsung Galaxy S4, Mini, Active and Zoom respectively. These devices are on sale now. SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 s4 Samsung Galaxy S4 has been introduced firstly and it has ultimate feature. Other devices of the series such as S4 Mini, Active and Zoom’s feature is lower level. To give an example, Standart Galaxy S4 has 2GB RAM but other devices RAM is over 1.5GB or below. In addition, Standart S4 has fastest processor and...

Today, Instagram made a press event in New York at 10.00 am et, and introduced new features of the application. Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom introduced the new feature of Instagram which gives the ability of sending pictures or videos to friends directly. With this feature, users who follow each other will be able to send pictures or videos that you take. In addition this feature, you can also send direct messages up to 15. Actually i updated the android apps but i couldn’t see the direct messages till now. This feature may be active within a few days.     By Instagram, Sent Pictures To Your Friend

NASA’s latest robot look like an Iron Man that is at 1.88 cm tall ( 6’2″ ) and 125 kilos ( 275 pounds ). The android was built to be a search and rescue robot and equiped with sonar, cameras, and a backpack battery. This battery gives power to the robot. Robot’s arm, legs will be as flexible as human and will force the limits of human on Mars. According to the project, NASA will send robots ahead of the human to Mars and robots will prepare the way for the human and they will work together. In future, Mars will be the second planet for the mankind. The android Valkyrie is like Iron Man and NASA is working on it. DARPA’s own robot ATLAS has ability to avoid minör ground abstacles and you can watch this moves in youtube video.     Iron Man Robot Goes To Mars

Sony PlayStation 4 hit the shelves on Nov. 22 in the U.S and in December around the World. After having hit the shelves, PS4 double the sales in comparison with Xbox One. Starting On Nov. 22 PS4 sold its best in first seven day and marking the highest first-month sales. By the way, the PS4 is $100 cheaper than the Xbox One which costs $499. With the introduction of the game consols, sales in November 2013 rosed by 80% in comparison Nov. 2012 that was 58%. In contrary, software sales dropped to 41% compared to the same period of last year. Game funs spent almost $1.8 billion in November. The top game sales were Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Madden NFL 25 and Grand Theft Auto V. // ]]> PlayStation 4 Sales Double XBox One

Google announced that they’ve bought Boston Dynamics, which is creator of quad legs robot Big Dog and the PETMAN which is like an army soldier. This company is the Google’s eight robotics company acquisition and everybody thinks why Google jumped to real World from the web pages and buys robot companies such as Boston Dynamics. The company, Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 and has been working on standalone, gas-powered robots. The company’s robots can decide and can jump over the blocks. They can recognize obstacles and jump over it. The Big Dog, the company’s famous quad-legs robot can throw cinder blocks, and walk on rocky terrain and can run 25 km an hour.     Why Google Buys Robot Companies

  World’s e-waste grows rapidly and by 2017 the World will produce 33% than now.   The discarded refrigerators, TVs, computers, monitors, cellphones,  and tablets waste will equal as much as 200 Empire State Buildings.  According a new report of UN organizations, amount of e-waste grows fastly and it will be real danger for the world’s future. When you look at the e-waste map below and you can see that which countries generate more than others. E-waste is produced by 184 countries and last year the World produced nearly 54 million tons of e-waste and it varies by countries. For example, The US produces TVs and Computers and EU produces batteries and power cords in the e-waste category. By 2017, the world’s e-waste will be grow 33% and it will be 72 milion tons. It means, the amount weighs about 11 times as You can look at the infographics below and see which countries pollute our World. Source: LiveScience // ]]> World’s E-Waste Will Grow As Big As The Pyramid of Giza

Facebook redesigned its like button and shared a detailed report after the rising in clicks. According to the report, 80% of clicks come from outside of the U.S. visitors. Visitors clicks increased 5% after redesigning according to a company spokesperson. The like button appear on 75. million third-party websites and are viewed by 22 billion times. The most clicks come from the Asia-Pacific and Western European regions.  Asia-Pacific accounted for 21%, Western Europe 21%, U.S. 20%, Central and Eastern Europe 18%, Latin America 13%, Canada 3%, Africa 3%, Middle East: 2%.     Most of Facebook’s Like Clicks Come From Outside The US

Apple announced its new Mac Pro will go sale on Thursday and customers can order on apple.com. After having started online sales, New Mac Pro will be on the shelves soon. The oval-shaped machine is for professionals and the basic model Mac Pro will come with 3.7 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor and will power with AMD dual  FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of VRAM, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of PCI Flash Storage and with a price tag of $2,999. Starting model of Mac Pro has 12GB RAM and 256GB flash storage and this specs is enough for standart designers and user but if you are demanding user, you can opt for the 3.5 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz with dual AMD FirePro D500 GPU of 3GB of VRAM. In addition to 16GB of RAM and 256GB Flash Memory. With these specs, this machine turns into a monster, and with a price tag of $3.999. If you need more powerful machine than above, you can upgrade to the  8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon E5 processors, with the AMD Fir...

Apple has applied a couple of patents for better screen color and a technology to improve its map. In the patent details, Apple has a method for introducing better and more accurate color to its screen that is called “quantum dot-enhaced display”. These quantum dots will be capable of emitting a spectrum of light and have a control over color accuracy. QD technology have some advanteges than LCD, LED and OLED. As for the Maps improvement, people could get different data stats from the Internet. This means, you can search on the map whatever you want and search would change according to which layer is being display by users. These rich data categories such as weather, nature, traffic, sightseeing, e-commerce, housing data etc. We can guess the future of Apple Technologies with these patents. // ]]> Apple Patent Applications For Better Color And Map

BlackBerry annouced its partnership with Foxconn to produce 3G devices based on BlackBerry 10 to the worlds. CEO John Chen revealed the details about the partnership on the company’s earnings. The first BlackBerry will come in March or April 2014 and its price will be affordable for the middle class. This partnership should help BlackBerry lower its exposure to financial risk. BlackBerry plans to lower its production costs. CEO Chen explained that the key ingredient here will be price. The new devices will be manufactured in Mexico and Indonesia. BlackBerry will earn revenue from the sale of the devices like Foxconn. Chen added, with this partnership, Foxconn will be working on hardware and we will focus on designing. As for financial details, Chen noted BlackBerry will shoulder the cost of manufacturing by paying Foxconn. And both of the companies will reap the revenue from the sale of devices. // ]]> BlackBerry And Foxconn Partnership For 3G BB10

Facebook follows your interactions with your friends and give you a detailed highlights report. Facebook also detects your most active time and collect photos and interactions, then highlights the top 30 moments and life events of you. Last year Facebook gave users their own personal year in review. With this review albüm you can see your photos and your friends pictures. Facebook started to review its users activities last year and after positive feedbacks, Facebook decided to improve the application and shared the review in 2013. Users can see their own review by clicking on “See Your 2013 Year in Review” button. And also you can click on a button labeled “Your Friends in 2013″ to see your friends activities. The Year in Review is made up by Facebook and the company uses a different algorithm than others. According to a spokesperson, the popular posts are determined like and comment engagements. If you want to see this application, please sign in Facebook and click “See Your 2013 Yea...

Apple has lots of patent applications for its iPhone and iPad smart gadgets and the number is getting more. Apple also acquires new startup tech firms which is important for its strategy. Well Apple has gained the one-man photo tech company SnappyLabs. After this buying Apple will add new features its camera. SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam and this startup was founded by John Papandriopoulos who is an elektrical engineer. John invented an application which can take full-resolution photos at 20 – 30 frames per second. This application is faster than Apple’s native iPhone camera, so Apple got eye on it and decided to buy the company with its application SnappyCam. After this buying, SnappyCam had disappeared from the App Store and its website was shut down. Apple has not comfirmed the acquisiton yet but it will response to the rumors. As you know, startup companies is so famous now and there are lots of startup companies who try to improve better applications. But, big companies such as ...

Apple patent başvurularının ve bünyesine kattığı şirketlerin sayısını günler geçtikçe artırıyor. Şirket tek adamla startup kuruluş olarak hizmet veren SnappyCam teknoloji şirketini bünyesine kattı. Bu satın almayla birlikte şirket kamera teknolojisinde yeni bir özellikle geliyor. John Papandriopoulos, bir elektrik mühendisi ve tek başına startup kuruluş olarak kurduğu SnappyLabs ve bu şirketin ürettiği SnappyCam uygulaması hemen dikkatleri üzerine çekti ve şirket Apple tarafından satın alındı. John’un geliştirdiği uygulama sayesinde iPhone kameraları saniyede 20 – 30 frame resim çekebiliyor ve bu resimler tamamen yüksek çözünürlüklü oluyor. Bu teknoloji Apple’ın geliştirdiği kamera uygulamasından çok daha kaliteli ve başarılı fotoğraflar çekebiliyor. SnappyLabs’ın geliştirdiği uygulama bu kadar başarılı olunca hemen dikkatleri üzerine çekti ve Apple tarafından hızlı bir şekilde satın alınarak şirket bünyesine katıldı. Bu satın alma ardından SnappyCam Apple Store’dan kaldırıldı ve şirke...

Akıllı telefonlar ve tabletlerin satışları her yıl katlanarak büyüyor ve buna paralel olarak mobil uygulamaların indirme oranları da artıyor. Uygulama sayılarında yaşanan artış indirilme oranlarına da yansıyor ve sonuç olarak 2013 yılında mobil uygulama yükleme rekoru kırıldı. Uygulamalarla birkaç yıldır çok fazla haşır neşir olmaya başladık. Özellikle akıllı telefonlar ve tabletlerin gelişmesi ve bu cihazları kullananların sayısının artmasıyla uygulama sayıları da hızla artıyor. Uygulama geliştiricileri için ise önemli sorun sadık kullanıcı maliyetlerinin artması. Apple Store ve Google Play uygulama mağazalarında yayınlanan her uygulama başına bir ücret ödüyorsunuz ve buna ek olarak; uygulamanızı ön sıralara çıkarmak ve sadık kullanıcı edinmenin de bir maliyeti var. 2012 yılında 1.3 $ olan bu maliyet 1.62 $’a çıkmış durumda. Apple Store’dan günde 6 – 7 milyon uygulama indirme gerçekleşiyor. En popüler 200 ücretsiz uygulamanın izlenmesiyle elde edilen rakamlar 2013 yılında indirilen uy...

Oyun meraklıları için sektördeki en önemli gelişme wireless joystick’in icat edilmesiydi. Bu yenilikle oyun severler standart kollardan kurtuldu ve kablosuz oyun oynama lüksüne kavuştular. Yeni bir gelişme oyun severleri daha da sevindirecek, gözle kontrol artık gerçek oluyor. Joystick sayesinde oyun severler inanılmaz bir bağımsızlığa kavuştular ve oyun konsollarını çok sevdiler. Özellikle Sony PlayStation bu konuda oldukça başarılı adımlar atarak sektörde öncü oldu ve oyun severlere bu geliştirdiği teknolojilerle inanılmaz deneyimler kazandırdı. Günümüzde teknoloji sadece büyük firmalar tarafından değil; startup şirketler tarafından da geliştirilebiliyor. Bu şirketlerden bir tanesi de Tobii şirketi ve şirketin geliştirdiği yeni teknoloji sayesinde artık oyunları gözlerinizle kontrol edebileceksiniz. Şirket gözle kontrol teknolojisi üzerinde yıllardır çalışıyor ve ilk projesini gözle kontrol edilebilen laptop üzerinde başarıyla tamamladı. Daha sonra gözle astroid parçala uygulamasını ...