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Switch Joy-Con Connectivity Issue Is Due to Bad Design
There already were rumours before the Nintendo Switch launched, that the left Joy-Con was having connection issues. Pre-launch rumours like that can originate for many reasons, but the most likely scenario is that the hardware wasn’t the final version. Sadly, that wasn’t the case this time and users all around the…
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Mad Catz Profits Nosedive 470 Percent
Throughout the years, Mad Catz has produced a wide range of wacky peripherals featuring distinctive colour schemes and striking designs. Popular creations like the R.A.T 3 mouse offer good tracking and an unusual shape. Of course, one important element of Mad Catz’s business is the Rock Band series as they…
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What Happens When You Open and Save a JPEG 500 Times?
Many years ago, back in the first days of digital photography, torture testing JPEG images to determine how much quality has been lost by making multiple edits was quite a big thing. JPEG’s use a technique called lossy compression that drops information to keep file sizes at a manageable level. A…
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The US Snowfall Captured Through a Lense
The recent US snowfall has absolutely hammered the East Coast of America in terms of size and ferocity which has led to the cancellations of thousands of flights as well as leaving tens of thousands without power, below is a selection of stats which conveys the extent of this force…
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Toshiba Records $4.5 Billion Annual Loss
Toshiba CEO was forced to resign after revelations came to fruition about the company’s management exaggerating operating profits by as much as $1.2 billion. Clearly, this has made a profound impact on their reputation among partners and consumers. According to The Wall Street Journal, The company is set to make…
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Lenovo Reports First Loss in Six Years
Despite being one of the leading PC vendors, Lenovo is experiencing a tough financial period and recorded a $714 million net loss. This is the first loss the company has reported in 6 years and makes for some alarming reading. One root cause is a major restructuring programme resulting in 3,200…
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AMD Reports 2015 Third Quarter Results
We recently brought you some amazing news regarding Fujitsu buying 85% of AMD’s shares. This not only means that AMD has money again, but the company’s shares are now less fragmented; is it too little too late as AMD reports 2015 Third Quarter financial Results? The future still looks bleak…
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Toshiba Reports $318m Net Loss
Toshiba’s fiscal performance from the year start to March has finally been revealed and recorded a net loss of $318 million. The delayed result was caused by the sale of its investment in Finnish firm, Kone to try to recoup financial confidence after senior management figures overstated profits by an estimated…
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Uber Reportedly Operating At Huge Losses
San Francisco-based transportation Network Company Uber has been a revelation in terms of market adoption and consumer exposure. But, the key is successful financial management which benefits the long-term viability of a company; this has been placed in a questionable stasis by alleged leaked financial Documents which covey’s a somewhat…
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Fibre-Optic Signals ‘Combed’ to Perfection
We have been talking a lot about the limitations of fibre optic cabling and signal transfer for a while now; if you recall back a few weeks, we covered a story regarding how we could be ‘running out of internet‘. Well, it now seems that scientists have overcome these issues.…
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Tablets in Trouble Again – iPad Shipments Decline Further
The world isn’t as interested in tablets as we once were and not even Apple is able to stay perched on top a cloud of fan-boys and drones. Shipments of tablets worldwide will increase by only 7.2% in 2014, compared to a 52.5% growth last calendar year. In exact numbers…
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Sony Anticipates $2.1B Loss on Smartphone Division
More bad news for Sony – the company has just revised its forecasts for the financial year and things aren’t looking good in its mobile sector. Sony is expecting a loss of $2.1B US – terrible news for the Japanese manufacturer. The company has been haemorrhaging money across the board…
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Mario Kart 8 Can’t Save Nintendo from $97 Million Loss
It’s sad news for Nintendo as they agree that they have made a huge loss. They state that their loss was due to the fact that the WiiU just didn’t have enough big titles at launch and quite frankly, it still doesn’t have enough big titles. Nintendo said: “The operating…
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Western Digital’s Cloud Services Still Facing Major Disruption
Since March 26th customers who own any of Western Digital’s Cloud storage based products have been facing crippling connectivity issues after a vulnerability in the service was exposed, resulting in the downtime of connections to and from the WD2Go servers and consequently the loss of connectivity by users to their…
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Virtual Space Battle Worth $300,000 Erupted In Eve Online, All Due To An Unpaid Bill
It is said that EVE Online had the most colossal battle, and the most expensive one, which all started because one alliance forgot to pay the most common thing we all have to face in life, namely a bill. The N3 coalition failed to make a hugely important system, allowing…
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