What’s it like to be an Engineer at Intel (Intel Costa Rica)

Meet some of our Costa Rica Assembly and Test Engineers and take a closer look at their personal and professional paths inside Intel. Think you know all about us? Take a closer look and find out why we say there’s always ‘more inside at Intel’.

Mar 17 2013

Smartphones Beat Cars in U.S. Teens’ Preferences

30 years ago, nearly half of 16-year-olds had a driver’s license, which they viewed as a passport to independence. By 2010 that figure had dropped to only 28 percent, according to research from the University of Michigan.

Mar 16 2013

Google Admits its Street View Cars Violated People’s Privacy

A three-year-long privacy investigation involving Google’s Street View cars revealed some disturbing information. Between 2008 and 2010, Google’s cars collected passwords, e-mails, medical and financial records and other private information from home wireless networks. Basically, Google’s cars sucked in all information available on unencrypted wireless networks…

Feb 09 2013

Open Letter to Dell Customers

To Our Customers,
The agreement to take Dell private represents an exciting new chapter for our company and for you, our customers.

As always, our unwavering focus is on delivering a fantastic customer experience and creating value for your organization. We believe that our proposed new ownership will provide long-term support to help Dell innovate, invest for growth and accelerate our transformation strategy. We’ll have the flexibility to continue organic and inorganic investment and drive industry-leading innovation.

Jan 27 2013

Bubblis, nº1 in the AppStore in over 10 countries

On Google Play, Bubblis achieves a position within Top 70 in over 100 countries

After its launch Bubblis gets its highest ranking in the App Store in December. The game has qualified in more than 60 countries and is in the top positions on five continents.

In Google Play it has managed to stay above position 70 in 101 countries. This is an excellent position, considering that paid for applications have less acceptance in the Android app store.

Jan 25 2013

Lenovo says company may try to acquire RIM to boost mobile business

Lenovo may be the world’s second-largest PC vendor, but it knows that it desperately needs to step up its game in the mobile world to stay relevant. Bloomberg reports that Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday that his company is looking at a variety of options to boost its mobile game, including buying BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion.

Jan 25 2013

Nokia CEO closes the door on a potential Android smartphone

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on Thursday shot down rumors that his company might be interested in developing Android-based smartphones. During Nokia’s fourth-quarter earnings call, the executive reiterated his support for the company’s Asha phones and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, while shutting the door on earlier Android rumors.

Jan 24 2013

Intel To Halt Desktop Motherboard Production

The PC landscape is quickly changing and that fact was evident in Intel’s announced plans to ramp down and eventually cancel the production of its desktop motherboards.

Intel’s final line of PC motherboards will come in the form of its Haswell platform. In the future the company will no longer produce PC motherboards to complement its own line of processors.

Jan 18 2013

The aggressively priced Lumia 620 is Nokia’s make or break model

Nokia has started pricing the Lumia 620 in Asia nearly 20% below the rival Windows mid-market model, the HTC 8S. This is remarkably aggressive considering the 620 has a higher pixel density and twice as much internal memory. The 620 is the keystone phone for Nokia. It is launching before RIM gets its new budget BlackBerry phones out and before Samsung or LG enter the mid-priced Windows phone market. This is the phone that will make or break Nokia’s summer.

Jan 15 2013

Apple’s earnings per share could decline for first time in almost a decade

The big reason that Apple’s stock price has been tanking isn’t because anyone thinks the company will collapse over the next year; rather, it’s because investors are worried that the company will simply be unable to maintain the sky-high margins on its products in the face of brutal competition from low-cost Android devices. Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research writes that he’s maintaining a neutral rating on Apple shares because competitive pressures may force Apple into “compressing product cycles” that “could lead to Apple’s reporting its first decline in quarterly EPS in nearly a decade.”