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Wednesday 20 June 2012

LG To Quit Tablet Market [ 20-06-2012 18:00 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Bloomberg Translation by: Paul Smith

LG have quite the tablet market. That's the news today from the South Korean manufacturer as it announced that it would be seeking to focus its attention on the smartphone side of its business. "We've decided to put all new tablet development on the back burner for the time being in order to focus on smartphones" explained spokesman Ken Hong. LG has found the tablet market a difficult beast to tame and has struggled in its attempts at competing with the likes of Apple's iPad and Android tablets from Amazon and arch-rival Samsung. Its competitors have mostly enjoyed success with their tablet products whereas LG hasn't really made a name for itself in that field yet. Instead LG will be looking to its Optimus line of smartphones to bring home the bacon.

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RIM To Shed Yet More Jobs [ 20-06-2012 16:58 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Waterloo Record Translation by: Paul Smith

In a sign that embattled manufacturer RIM is still struggling to keep its head above the waves the company is looking set to lay off yet more employees. The Waterloo Record is reporting that RIM could be shedding as much as 10% of its global workforce, which would amount to approximately 2,000 employees losing their jobs. Last year the same paper reported that RIM was laying off people and a year on it's the same story. A spokesperson for RIM explained the layoffs:

RIM has committed to achieving significant efficiencies and operating cost reductions over the course of the fiscal year. Our financial target is to drive at least $1 billion in savings by the end of fiscal 2013. Head count reductions are part of this initiative.

RIM has already shed 2,000 jobs earlier this year too and alongside this latest wave of redundancies the total job loss could be as high as 6,000.

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Today Is A Great Day - Pirate Bay 'Fully Blocked' In The UK [ 20-06-2012 14:57 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120618PD220.html Translation by: Paul Smith

Today is a great day for anyone who believes that the music industry is an ass. Today the last remaining British ISP not blocking the Pirate Bay, British Telecom, was forced into compliance with the decree that British internet users are not to view sites that the music industry doesn't want them to see. In short access to the Pirate Bay has now been blocked for all British internet users.

Within minutes, literally, of British Telecom instigating this final blocking of the Pirate Bay for residents of the United Kingdom a proxy was available that gave British internet users complete access to the Pirate Bay. Not only does this make a mockery of the block itself, it also makes a mockery of the music industry and their ridiculous and vain attempts to shore up their outdated business model by using the legal system against British citizens. The music industry pushed hard for this ban and yet it was rendered completely useless within minutes.

Today is a great day.

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