On April 3, 1973, 94-year-old cellphone creator, American engineer, and founder and CEO of ArrayComm, a wireless communication software company founded in San Jose, California, who led the team that in 1972-73 built the first mobile cell phone and made … Continue reading The first cell phone call was made 50 years ago today
Vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects the feat that we all take for granted today the domestication of sound, and bring us the story of recorded sound and technological developments, the people that made them happen and impact they had on society from the earliest inventions via the phonographs to LPs, EPs and recent resurgence of vinyl, travelling through a history of geniuses, eccentrics and upstarts who brought us the vinyl records in music’s most durable format. New Vinyl outsold CDs in the UK last year for the first time since 1987, although streaming with worth £1.6bn against … Continue reading Phonograph Parties
On Friday morning, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which helped so many USD tech startups came a sudden bank run, capital crisis, and collapsed, leaving its high-powered customers and investors in limbo, was taken over by federal regulators. Several forces collided to take down the banker. First the Federal Reserve which began raising interest rates a year to tackle inflation which also eroded the value of long-term bonds that SVB and other banks took advantage during the era of ultra-low near-zero interest rates, yielding SVB’s $21billion bond portfolio was yielding an average 1.79 per cent – the current year Treasury yield … Continue reading Tech bank on the run collpases
Apple registered a patent on Valentine’s Day for a display screen with enhanced touch sensors that included “a foldable electronic device” alongside a drawing. If Apple intend to venture into the flip phone sector for the first time, it will have to take on its arch-rival Samsung which has ploughed money into it and started producing it four years ago, as a way of standing out from a highly competitive crowd, Samsung which launched Galaxy Z Fold4 last year, which looks like a smart phone but opens up to create a bigger, crease-free screen like a tablet, with unit vlaue … Continue reading Apple’s patent register for enhanced touch sensor display screen
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