Wal-Mart shrinks electronics space, adds items

The words most famous chain of stores, Wal-Mart, had decided to give smaller space to its electronics department consider that recently the most popular gadgets are the ones which are the smallest. Alternately, it will be making more space for the unordinary items like fishing poles, fabric and full-figure fashions.

According to Rosalind Brewer, the president of Walmart East, he says that "It's still a vibrant category but much smaller items are being sold." He was addressing the audience at the ISI Retail Summit on Tuesday. Company representatives have claimed that Wal-Mart will probably end up selling almost the same amount of products regardless of this decision of reducing the physical space reserved for its electronics departments. It was also stated that the size of the electronics departments will vary store by store.

Quora Temporarily Supports an Unofficial iPhone App as Users Waits an Official Version

Given a rival like none other than Facebook, with its Questions feature, Quora, the exclusive social networking website for question-and-answer, has started to make desperate decisions. Quora has declared its support for a recently launched unofficial iPhone app. This app named Social Questions, gives the ability for every user to browse Quora through a mobile displaying their profile page, home page, inbox and notifications.

Interface of Quora iPhone App

According to the Developer of this app, Thomas Ricouard, he was allowed by the company to quickly release the app, though it doesn’t answers the concern that why did the company take so long for marking its own mobile app sooner. Quora also has hired an iOS developer since January, which indicates that an official iPhone and iPad apps can be expected soon, but how soon can it be. Quora has been founded since 2009 and it is anticipated to have a very mobile app, when it is made.

Intel’s Advance Alternate to USB, Thunderbolt Releases Its Developer Kits

Intel declared publicly this week its intentions to release the developer’s kits for the new Thunderbolt data transfer system, which will consequently allow increasing the number of Thunderbolt-compatible devices greatly, states PC World. Moreover, it was stated that this announced will reduce the taken for such products to be made available for consumers. The inauguration of Thunderbolt system took place on 24^th of February, 2011, by Intel. Whole series of the upcoming new line of Apple’s Mac Book Pro laptops will be the first devices which will actually release the new ports of high-speed connection actually in the market.

The Thunderbolt data transfer system holds up the data transfers between any two devices, as of the speed with a computer and an external hard drive. The speed will be approximately up to 10 gigabits per second, which is straight forwardly 20 times faster than USB 2.0, and two times more fast than USB 3.0, as it only allows 5Gbps. This great new speed of Thunderbolt implies that a full high-definition video will be able to be moved between two devices within just 30 seconds. This extra-ordinarily new advances transfer speed of Thunderbolt makes use of light rather than copper wires, ultimately letting the information to travel relatively very much quickly. Intel aims that after some time they could increase this transfer speed to even up to 100Gbps.

Cisco Completely Cuts Off the Flip Video Camera Out Of Nowhere

The recent video camera which quickly gained the honor of being the top-seller in the U.S. last year, Flip has been astonishingly declared to be cut off by the parent company, Cisco Systems. The C.E.O. John Chambers, referred for it to be a part of refurbishing the company, on Tuesday.

Cisco's Flip Video Camera

Cutting off a product which has received such positive reviews, and referred to be best low-cost handheld video was definitely a bitter decision. This announcement arrived only a week after Chambers had reportedly claimed that he has to make some "tough decisions" in order to stabilize the spending on some product areas.