US fiscal cliff: How it will hurt IT companies/ Apple App Store blasts through 40 billion downloads

US fiscal cliff: How it will hurt IT companies Warning to investors: major UStechnology companies could miss estimates for fourth-quarter earnings as "fiscal cliff" worries likely led some corporate clients to tighten their belts last month and refrain from spending all of their 20..more Apple App Store blasts through 40 billion downloads Apple has seen over 40 billion downloads from the App Store, with over 500m active accounts the Cupertino company claims, and nearly half of that 40bn figure being grabbed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in 2012. The huge milestone culminated in a r..more Samsung sells 500 handsets per minute, set for record Q4 profit  Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.1 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets every minute and as demand picked up for the flat screens it makes for mobile devices, includi..more SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Promises 10Gbps Data Transfers, Coming in 2014 The trade organization behind the USB 3.0 specification has announced a new upgraded spec that promises higher data speeds over backwards compatible connections. The new spec enhanced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 spec should deliver a 10 Gbps data rate -- th..more Plastic Logic and Intel team on PaperTab to finally undermine trees Plastic Logic, Intel, and Queen’s University have revealed a new tablet using a flexible plastic display, the PaperTab, with a 10.7-inch near-indestructible display and a Core i5 processor. The PaperTab, part of Canadian university Queen&r..more