Samsung urged a note of caution for the future, despite announcing bumper profits for the last three months of 2012.

The two big drivers that powered the Korean super-manufacturer to record revenue of 56.06 trillion Korean won ($52.7bn, £33.3bn) at the end of 2012 are showing signs of decelerating. Samsung execs expect cooler markets and slower growth in 2013. Revenue was up 7 per cent on Q3 and up 19 percent on the same quarter the year before.

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The differences between such position schemes as normal flow, relative positioning, absolute positioning, fixed positioning and floating elements will be illustrated. To begin with, elements within a web page are created from blocks which are rectangles of pixels. For this reason, web designers have the option to set the elements to display as a block or the element could be set to default with this option. Furthermore, the height and width of the element could be applied for the same block. However, inline elements such as span elements are, by default, rectangles. Therefore, the span elements will flow onto the page differently by lining as horizontally as possible. Consequently, positioning the block elements into a desired position could be difficult if the correct position scheme is not selected. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple, which made its ascent to the top of the stock market earlier this year, has fallen from grace slightly over the past few weeks, with the stock down 10 percent from its all-time high of US$705.07 on Sept. 21, the day the company launched the highly anticipated iPhone 5.

Judging by the post-launch social buzz about the products, some of Apple’s shine might be wearing off, said John Feland, CEO and founder of Argus Insights. Read the rest of this entry »

The technology market is a graveyard of companies that had potential and lost their way either to fail or be gobbled up and lose their identity. Netscape, Novell, DEC/Digital, Palm, Transmeta, ATI, ROLM, Northern Telecom, and FLIP are all names of companies that have left us as independents or completely over time. Most of these firms were high fliers once, but all of them hit hard times, resulting in the disappearance of their brand and identity. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at Tufts University announced Sunday they’ve created an electrical motor many thousands of times smaller than the width of a single human hair, a breakthrough they claim could eventually lead to innovations in healthcare and technology.

The microscopic motor is the size of a single molecule and is electrically charged, an innovative feat since previous single-molecule-sized motors were powered by chemicals or light. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been another wild and crazy week for the security community.

Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday.

Meanwhile, the major players in the browser market – Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Microsoft(Nasdaq: MSFT) and the Mozilla Foundation – have chopped Dutch certificate DigiNotar off at the knees, apparently because it was slow to warn that hackers had broken into its network and issued rogue SSL security certificates. Read the rest of this entry »

My first thought was that someone was engaging in click-bait journalism. Even the title of the post — “Android GPLv2 termination worries – one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3″ — is something I would expect from anti-Android trolls, not the Free Software Foundation. Read the rest of this entry »

Speedtest.net Mobile Speed Test, an app from Ookla, is available for free at the App Store.

For the most part, I barely notice the incoming speed of my Internet data connections on my iPhone 4 or iPad 2. Sure, if I want to download something large, I make sure I’m on a WiFi connection. If I’m in a car (riding as a

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We have crazy months from time to time, but August will likely go down in history as one of the biggest tech news months of any year. From the torpedoing of Android by Google(Nasdaq: GOOG), to the off-again, on-again TouchPad sales, to the departure of Steve Jobs, to the slashing of Oracle’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) US$1.3 billion settlement, to the… Read the rest of this entry »