Another week has passed and that means that it’s time again
for another roundup of the latest tech news all around the globe. This week, we’ll
be talking about a new partnership between a search engine and social media
analytics site, and two companies who have suffered major losses in the past
and are now trying to make up for lost opportunities.
If you’re still interested, then just read on and get to know
the details.
Klout joins Bing
San Francisco-based social media analytics company Klout has
joined forces with Bing combining the two companies’ data to bring people with
more accurate social search results.
Bing is already incorporating social results into its
search, mainly data from known social networks such as Facebook. With this new
partnership, Bing will now add more value to its search result as Klout scores
will be taken into account for search results and queries. Klout on the other
hand will consider how often a person’s name is searched on Bing when coming up
with that person’s influence score.
According to Microsoft, the effects of the partnership will
be seen on Klout in the next few months while social ranking data will be
incorporated into Bing search as soon as possible.
No more printers from
Kodak
Last week, Kodak announced that it will no longer produce
consumer printers in an attempt to streamline its operations. The company is
already making efforts to reorganize its core ongoing businesses reduce costs
and sell its assets.
Kodak was once known as a top leading company in the realm
of photography, but due to its inability to cope with current trends have
slowly fallen back in the consumer products race behind bigger brands like Sony
and Samsung. According to Antonio Perez, Kodak’s chairman and CEO, the decision
for the company to stop the production of consumer printer sales will substantially
advance the transformation of the brand to focus on commercial, packaging and
functional printing solutions and enterprise services.
Aside from its decision to exit the consumer printer
business, Kodak has also employed several strategies which include selling its
patents to other companies and even suing Apple and RIM over alleged patent
violations. Furthermore, the company is said to be planning to lay off 4000
people this year.
Blackberry Laguna is bound for Verizon
The specs of the rumoured L6 device from RIM codenamed Laguna
has been leaked on the internet a couple of days ago. According to the leaked
spec sheet, the Laguna is bound for Verizon and will probably feature a
4.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x768 pixels at a pixel density of 355
pixels per inch.
It will also pack a dual-core Krait processor and 1GB of RAM
packed reportedly in a Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset to compete head to head with
current WP8 devices. Other rumoured features include LTE with GSM 2G and 3G
roaming, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, mobile Wi-Fi hotspot and Wi-Fi direct, NFC,
and micro HDMI port.
An 8MP camera has also been reported that can shoot 1080p
videos. There’s 16GB of built-in storage with support for micro SD expansion. In
terms of battery, the Laguna is expected to be powered by an 1800mAh battery.
