Steve Jobs - His fortune

As the CEO of the world's most valuable brand, Jobs pulled in a comically low annual salary of just $1. While the gesture isn't unheard of in the corporate world — Google's Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt all pocketed the same 100 penny salary annually — Jobs has kept his salary at $1 since 1997, the year he became Apple's lead executive. Of his salary, Jobs joked in 2007: "I get 50

Kindle Versus iPad

Kindle has become one hot brand in Amazon! Amazon has unveiled a touchscreen tablet com-puter in an attempt to pull the rug from beneath Apple and its iPad. The Kindle Fire, which has many similar functions, will be sold in the U.S. for $199 (£128), less than half the price of the cheapest iPad available.The low cost stunned technology industry watchers, who suggested that Apple and other tablet

Jobs at Apple: Master inventor, master marketer

Steve Jobs started Apple Computer with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later, then returned to rescue the company. During his second stint, Apple grew into the most valuable technology company in the world.

Jobs invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and

Why iPhone 5?

Apple recently announced iOS 5 which is packed with new cool features, including Android’s drop-down menu style notification. iOS 5 will be released in the autumn, more specifically in September. Furthermore, Apple brings new generation iPods and iPod Touches in September. However, according to CNET UK, iPods are not enough glamorous to bring iOS 5 into the world. iOS 5 and iPhone 5 both will

Twitter Turns Five as Site Registers 200Million Users

'Inviting coworkers'. Two words. Not spectacular. Yet, as the first ever Twitter message – made five years ago today – those two words sparked a revolution in internet communication. It took three years to pass the billion-tweet mark. Now it posts that many every week.Since co-founder Jack Dorsey posted it on March 21, 2006, Twitter has registered nearly 200million users. Dorsey has spent the

Barrymore: Twitter is not for me

Actress Drew Barrymore has no interest in Twitter and says she has no plans to join the micro blogging site.She feels people should only use Twitter if they are funny and that she is an "old fashioned girl" when it comes to technology, reports femalefirst.co.uk."I know I am an anomaly, I know everyone else is in love with it, but it's not for me. I like people who use it for comedy to make people

Facebook Finally Bows to Child Protection Calls

Facebook has bowed to pressure and provided a new application which allows young users to report suspicious behaviour. All users of the social networking site will be able to access an advice centre from their home page where they will be able to report suspected grooming or inappropriate sexual behaviour.It is the result of Facebook and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre joining

Windows 7 Ready to exceed Vista, XP Still the Most Popular

Performance of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the market so far kept rocketing. According to statistics news from Net Applications, Windows 7 now has scooped 10 per cent share of the operating system market.The achievement was made more quickly than its predecessor, Windows Vista which took 16 months to do the same.Overall, the Windows operating system in various versions are still very

Acer Ferrari One-200, a Classy and Prestigious "Netbook"

In general, consumers of information communication technology products like something exclusive, luxurious but affordable, has a futuristic features, and can reflect your lifestyle. We will look at various gadgets like that.That is also why, in the middle of the road we will look cool cars of various brands that pass or parking in one of the mall in Jakarta. Design a car design has always had his

OS Google Chrome: Google is working on Netbook OS open source

Attack on Microsoft Windows: The California Internet and search engine giant Google is Google's managers Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, according to a Netbook own operating system called Google Chrome OS ".As Google has just on the official company blog confirms goes "Google Chrome OS" as a Cloud-based operating system designed specifically for

Buying Computer Online

Buying computer and its peripherals now is easier with the presence of Alnect Komputer. Alnect is an online store that provides computer, notebook, netbook, and a variety of computer’s equipment which is based in Yogyakarta. They are intending to help computer users to get their needs and of course the price is quite competitive. Many of the hardware for the personal computer, notebook and

Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista

Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista. Essentially, the Redmond company is laboring to decrease the installation footprint of the operating system with the next iteration of the Windows client. While the software giant failed to indicate just how much occupied disk space it was going to shave off in Windows 7, it did

Add Laptop Location Tracking Security

A new open source project allows computer users to add surreptitious location tracking to their systems. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.Adeona, from researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, anonymously sends data to servers on a free storage system called OpenDHT. The data, which is encrypted, includes IP addresses, information about

Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Cell-Derived Chip

The first laptops to make use of the SpursEngine, a multimedia co-processor derived from the Cell chip that powers the PlayStation 3, will go on sale in Japan in July.Toshiba will launch its Qosmio G50 and F40 machines with the chip, which contains four of the "Synergistic Processing Elements" from the Cell Broadband Engine processor. The Cell chip used in the PlayStation 3 has eight of the SPE

Intel's 4-series chipsets support overclocking

One of the main features of the recently released Intel 4 series chip set is that it will allow its users to better overclock their systems. Apparently, Intel will now give its users the necessary tools that will enable them to improve their system's overall performance, by tweaking and overclocking the central processing unit. Still, one thing that users shouldn't expect from Intel is to provide

Free Acrobat Online Service Suite

The free Acrobat online service suite provides web based applications and tools to manage and share documents and files. There are web conferences (communication in real time) and storage solutions available, as well as a word processor and an online PDF converter.The applications and tools contained in the suite are: Share, Create PDF, Adobe Buzzword, Adobe ConnectNow and My Files. They make the

Asus's Eee Box System Gets Details and Price

A few days ago, there wasn't much to say about the Asus Eee PC Box desktop, apart from the fact that it resembled a Nintendo Wii, and to speculate on whether it would be featured with an Intel Atom processor or not. All these speculations seem to have come to an end, as Asus has just revealed the final specifications for its future Eee Box desktopsystems.Up until now, all reports on Asus' Eee Box

Asus Eee PC 900 UMPC: launch dates and details

The original Asus Eee PC was a great little UMPC, however many of us knew that this was just a teaser until the launch of the Asus Eee PC 900. We thought that this slighter larger model would be a huge improvement on the previous model however, I was a little shocked to learn that they would still be using the 900MHz Celeron M processor.Although Asus have tried to make up for this by giving us