15% in US Shun Internet

Despite a seemingly unstoppable move to digital lifestyles, some 15 per cent of Americans don't use the Internet, and most are quite content to remain offline, a survey shows. The survey released Wednesday found that in addition to the 15 per cent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine per cent say they only go online at their workplace. The report by the Pew Research Center found a whopping 92 per cent of these "offline adults" with no interest in using the Internet or email in the near future.   



Tweets Reveal Global News Readership Patterns: Study

Different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles - Americans and Brits are drawn to opinion and world news, while Brazilians go for sports, a twitter analysis has found. Researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles. While Americans and British readers like opinion and world news, Spaniards prefer local and national news, Brazilians are drawn to sports and arts, and Germans go for politics and economy. The researchers also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read national newspapers compared to British readers, who prefer foreign publications.




BlackBerry Reports $1bn Quarterly Loss

BlackBerry reported a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion on Friday, in line with last week’s warning, days after accepting its largest shareholder’s tentative $4.7 billion bid to take it out of the public eye. BlackBerry, which had warned of poor results on September 20th, said its net loss for the second quarter ended on August 31st was $965 million, or $1.84 a share. Revenue fell 45 per cent to $1.6 billion from a year earlier.  




Study Puts iPhone 5S Production Costs at $191

 While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study. An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70. In comparison, the iPhone 5, which hit the market a year ago, cost $197 to make.

Samsung to Launch Smartphone with Curved Display

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs, eventually allowing mobile and wearable gadgets to take on new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market.