Apple products saw a surge in sales in the month of March, as demand for the Apple iPad 2 created the need for a steady supply of components. Sales for Apple touch panel supplier Wintek increased 40% month over month, well more than the average 16% increase Wintek has seen in March in years past. [...]
Lenovo Group Ltd. (LNVGY) said Thursday its third-quarter net profit rose 25 percent from a year earlier, its best result in more than two years, helped by a strengthening Chinese currency and lower component costs. The results come as the PC industry faces softer consumer demand, but Lenovo aims to sell more products to consumers. [...]
Just for a few moments the boundless enthusiasm of yore seemed to have come back to the auction world as Henry Wyndham conducted Sotheby’s Tuesday evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art. Perhaps it was the high hopes pinned on a Picasso picture from the much-sought-after year 1932 that galvanized the attendance. At the end [...]
Says he met the Wachowski’s (no emphasis on the word brothers), for lunch over Christmas and stated that they had completed work on a two picture script treatment that would see him return to the world of the matrix as Neo. Says the brothers have met with Jim Cameron to discuss the pro’s and con’s [...]
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia with an answer for just about every question, is celebrating its tenth birthday. The site boasts more than 400 million users and provides the answers to thousands of questions at the click of a button. But as Al Jazeera’s Tarek Bazley reports, it is not without its critics. Wikipedia, the free [...]