Amazon’s Kindle  Fire Stick, and Kindle Fire ( 7inch display with 8gb) along with Kindle paperwhite  6 inches, high resolution are among the higest selling products at UK Amazon.E


The Kindlle Fire TV stick has been UK’s Amazon’s best seller since the past 256 days, while The Kindle Fire has been the second most sought after gadget at number 2 for 184 days. Kindle stick overall has been the highest selling consumer electronic items online since the last 8 months on Amazon
The kindle stick allows Tens of thousands of TV episodes and movies, from Amazon Video, Netflix, BBC iPlayer and more, plus games, music and apps. 8 GB of storage and 1 GB of memory, plus a dual-core processor for fast streaming and smooth performance. 
However its not all good news for Tablet manufacturers SA new report published by IDC shows that worldwide tablet shipments have shrunk for the first time since 2010.

So does it technically offer unlimited data : Rider 2  .AT &T will only slow the connection for any customer who is in a data-congested area and who in a given month exceeds 22 gigabytes of data. This is equivalent to someone streaming 50 hours of video and 250 hours of music and then spending another 220 hours on the Internet each month.

Rider 3 : How much is the actual cost :The monthly cost for the data is $60, plus $40 for each line. The fourth line is free. This means one line costs $100 a month, two lines are $140, and then three or four lines cost $180. .

Who should go for this plan :This is a pretty good deal for anyone who needs a paid TV service and is a heavy user of wireless data. Specifically, it’s best for individuals who use more than 10GB to 15GB of data per month
 know more on the details of AT &T new unlimited plan here

More than 300,000 utility patents were issued by the —United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 out which which 6788 patents was issued to IBM . The no 2 brand with highest patents to its name was Samsung electronics which had 4652 patents to its name

The global  top 10 patent holders :

no 6 was Toshiba with Patents earned: 2,608, followed by Qualcom with 2,590 and Google with 2566 patents last year (Changing a Rank of a Document by Applying a Rank Transition Function” (US-8924380)

When it comes to just wearable technology,Its the  smartwatches which rule .Apple leads the race with  the company selling more than 4 million smartwatches in the first 6 months of 2015,compared to Samsung’s 0.4million in the same duration.

Of the 74 percent of online American adults who are likely to purchase health and fitness technology in the next 12 months, one in three (35 percent) plan to buy a smartwatch, according to a report from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). An NPD survey is suggesting that the Apple Watch has pushed watch sales to the lowest point since 2008.

However OEMs  apart from Apple and Samsung are still not able to address this growing market. For example  LG canceled its latest smartwatch model after less than a week on sale, citing hardware problems. And an embattled HTC, still  struggling  and has delayed its release of a planned co-branded fitness band with Under Armour.

According to a recent study on the use of tax havens in 2014, the 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxes

TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES WHICH HAS STASHED THEIR MONEY IN TAX HAVENS

Among the total of $2.1 trillion, of the entire amount siphoned to countries which are tax haves,around 25% of that amount (549.7 billion) is hoarded abroad by ten tech companies alone.Among them Apple remains the undisputed number 1 brand in terms of hoarding cash, parking a whopping $181 billion overseas. That is almost twice as much as second-ranked Microsoft ($108.3b) and roughly three times the total of IBM, has parked the largest amount of cash outside the United States.

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15 statistics of Best Buy which you would not have known

1. Global operating income of Bestbuy $1,450 million
2. Annual Revenue of Bestbuy in the U.S. $36,055 million
3. Operating income of Bestbuy in the US $1,437 million
4. Total number of Bestbuy stores worldwide 1,731
5. Number of people who shooped at its storeswithin the last 3 months in the U.S. 60.9 million
6. The Revenue per employee : $322,712
7. The average income per employee $9,968
8. Founded by Richard M. Schulze and Gary Smoliak in 1966 as an audio store
9.  In 1983, it was renamed and rebranded with more emphasis placed on consumer electronics
10. Best Buy’s web sales grew more than US online sales average growth in 2014 
11. Online sales for the site grew by 17% in in 2015 Q1
12. 49% % of US household  upto income of  $75,000 shopped at Best Buy in the last 6 months
13. Global revenue of Best Buy Data (in million US dollars)
14. The number of  Best Buy  stores  surpassed 600 in US as it opened its first store in Shanghai , China in 2003
15. Best Buy has  1,056 Best Buy and 409 Best Buy Mobile stand-alone stores in the US( 2013)

The above lists the most sold items by various online shopping sites across the world

Source: NRF Index. Forrester Research, Statistic Brain Research Institute Research Date: April 8th, 2015 Questions: What are the top selling internet items? What do people use the internet to shop for the most? How much revenue is generated from online stores selling books? How much market share does online software ecommerce hold? your post or banner displayed here for $10 a day .Click here to know more

consumer electronics start ups with  highest funding source : seedtable

Bottomline : The DUNE HDTV 101 is a good player but considering there are  more affordable alternatives in the market, its on the higher price point

 The little wonder box supports all types of video and audio formats. Powered by Sigma Designs 8670/8671 processors and 256 MB  RAM the player is fast and featured loaded . It has a built in bit torrent client for download movies and music . You get a remote control to operate the HF TV101 this is the only interface to the device . However  the remote is rather small , and its cumbersome if you want to handle it for long time ( like typing using the virtual keyboard

 This player starts up and accessories media files from connected disk quickly . It also reads UPnP files as well as other shared folders on the network. The picture quality of the high quality Rips was stuning , and the audio quality was pristine .

via Statista

via Statista

The graph shows the geographical distribution of smartwatch companies in 2013, by country. Though smart watches might be a recent phenomenon.. the idea was not. The idea of smart watches manufacturing hubs has been doing brisk business across Mainland China and Taiwan for quite some time now . While  the digital  wearable market is yet  to take shape Major consumer elctronic brands like LG/Samsung/Sony have been working on related technology and fine tunings its manufacturing processes  to meet the ” unprecedented demand” in wearable devices  this year   A quick glance  on the ” geographic hubs for  smart watch manufacturing” shows  not surprisingly dominated by the Chinese Around 26% smart  watch manufacturer’s( OEM’s) are based out of China. US comes a close 25%. Taiwan and Japan ( 8% and 7%) ranks 3rd

 

1. 38% respondents across Inmobi network are looking to buy Small car
2. 21% were searching for SUV
3. 17% searched for sedan
4. 18% searched for a Luxuty car
5. 14% searching for an electric car
6. 15% looking for a bike or a Motorcycle

THE IPHONE  6 LEAKED PICTURES

The new iPhone 6 has just been leaked !!

Apple loses bid for U.S. ban on Samsung smartphone sales | Reuters: “Apples bid for ” stopping Samsung  smartphones from selling in US  got a setback after  A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Apple’s request for a permanent sales ban in the United States against some older Samsung smartphones, as Apple failed in producing meaningful evidence ( according to the Judge  as  Apples  patented features were a significant enough driver of consumer demand to warrant an injunction.